Pepper never meant to lose her best friend. Lucas never meant to fall in love. Yet the aftermath of broken hearts leads them to blur the lines of their friendship forever. When Pepper is dumped by her boyfriend and Lucas is led on by his crush, they seek comfort in the arms of intimacy and underage drinking. Neither of them expect to wake up tangled beneath his bedsheets with nothing but lust-stained skin to separate them, and nothing will prepare them for the chaos storming in the wake of their biggest mistake. ✧ completed ✧ Registered with the United States Copyright Office Limerence © 2020 | All Rights Reserved This book or any portion thereof, may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever, without the express written permission of the publisher, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

"Let me go!" "Not until you marry me"

"So what's your name?" He asks Oh so now he wants to play the game of twenty questions. Interesting! "Do you think I should tell you?" I ask "Answering my question with a question huh?" He asks once again "Stating the obvious huh?" I do same Then he chuckles "You're different" he states "Different good or different bad?" I ask "Different perfect" he says with a heart warming smile. Oh my, he has a beautiful smile but it's not captivating. I think I should see the doctor. What are the girls drooling about that I don't see? I think I need help. *** *** This is Dakota MacCan. A teenage girl, but not your normal teenage girl. She's a senior in Weinstein High School. Everyone will be happy to be a senior, but for some reason she's not. Not because she doesn't have friends, not because she doesn't have family. But because she was born that way. She was born DIFFERENT! Now, will the school's most gorgeous boy: 1. Handsome 2. Rich 3. Gorgeous 4. Humble 5. What all boys would like to be 6. And what all girls would like to have 7. But who has fallen in love with Dakota 8. Jason Kyle Roberts Be able to make her normal or exceptional? Read Different to find out!

2 childhood best friends they've been kicking it since the first grade until Alexis had to leave. 4 years later they are seniors in high school and Alexis comes back to the town she grew up in but she forgot about Kian. Will she remember Kian or will they go their separate ways?

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"I dare you to kiss the girl on your right." The girl on the right. . . my sleep deprived mind made out sluggishly. Girl on the right, it repeated again and my eyes flew open, all atom of sleep disappearing from them. I was the girl on the right! *** Bullied for the colour of her skin ever since she could remember, Olayinka doesn't know what it means to be accepted. She's called trash and treated as an outcast all because of the school's resident bad boy and top bully, Kian Fields. Senior year starts with Kian suddenly becoming very nice and naive Olayinka, unaccustomed to this type of attention and desperately wishing for acceptance, begins to fall for him. That is, until Jayden Ross enters the equation. Jayden is nerdy, wears ugly glasses and is definitely not Olayinka's kind of guy. But as he aids Olayinka in standing up for herself, she can't help but be drawn to his shy and gentle exterior. With Kian showering his attention on her and Jayden, who looks out for her all the time, Olayinka is attracted to both of them. Could this be her very own love triangle or is it just in her head? But maybe, just maybe she'll finally be able to live as any other teen her age would, worrying about boys and perhaps she'll finally be considered normal. *** Second Place in Teen Fiction Category for The Undiscovered Awards 2020*** ***Feautured in Wattpad Ambassador NG reading list*** ***First Place in Teen Fiction Category for The Evergreen Awards*** ***Third Place in Teen Fiction Category for The Faith Awards***

Carter Vanderbilt, 45 year old Caucasian male and father of two, is the CEO of a multi-billion dollar publishing company. He's recently divorced his third wife after finding out that she's cheated on him with his companies accountant. No longer looking for love, Carter decides to focus on his company and give up on women. Leilani Jones, a 20 year old African American woman has just graduated community college with an associates degree in journalism. Her passion is writing and to hopefully become published. The summer before heading going away to a university on the other side of the country, Leilani lands an internship at Carters publishing company, working directly under him. Grueling nights, early morning coffee runs, endless amounts of book entries to edit and revise alongside the big bad bass, Leilani finds herself being more than just an intern at Carters company. However, an unexpected contender is also smitten by Leilani and isn't afraid to let it be known... Leilani has to decide before the summer is over.

Arianna is twenty three African American and a nurse at a hospital in New York. She has her masters and is very self sufficient and intelligent; she has a great family a great life but it's missing one thing. Love, well not really she did find it, it just happened that it found her cousin two weeks before Christmas as well. She now faces the fact that she is once again single on Christmas and she's also thinking about faking her own death so she doesn't have to show up this year. But when she meets Sergeant Stone, they might be able to help each other during the holiday season. First sergeant Michael Stone is twenty seven, single Caucasian and just home for his sixth deployment. His parents and him were never that close; they were there for him growing up but being workaholics his strongest relationships were with his grandparents who are both deceased now. He rarely goes to see his parents and this is a Christmas he was planning on spending in a bar or with another girl.

"My sweet, sweet girl. So naive." Iyesha Arden and Santo "Saint" Genovese. An innocent good girl and a dangerous mafia underboss, destined to be Don. What could go wrong? The answer is a lot. A lot could go wrong.

Just like oil and water, Sabrina and Adrian have never gotten along. You name it, they've probably done it: * Prank wars ✓ * Petty nicknames ✓ * Evil glares ✓ * Egging houses ✓ Thankfully before their petty dislike for each other escalated, Sabrina was sent to a prestigious boarding school in Switzerland right before the starting of high school. So for both of them, high school was somewhat a breeze. However, almost four years after she left, Sabrina returns two days after graduation. I wouldn't say she crashed the party, she was invited after all, but rather her presence came with some surprises. Most of them involve our man, Adrian. Follow Sabrina's and Adrian's journey as they navigate sex, love, drama, and difficulties that come with emerging adulthood. Maybe they'll uncover a couple of secrets on the way. Rankings #2 - bwwm: 10/21/22 #2 - wmbg: 10/21/22 #55 - bgwb: 5/1/22 #14 - questions: 11/21/22 #23 - love-hate: 5/1/22