Claudia Mori only has one goal in order to survive winter break: Avoid being home at all costs. So when she runs into Lucas Elwood, her old crush who she hasn't seen since high school, she can't resist hanging out with him - even though she knows she should be staying far, far away. What Claudia doesn't know is that Lucas already has big plans for them. And when those include spending time together at her family's log cabin in the middle of nowhere, Claudia can't decide whether it's going to be a complete disaster or the best two weeks of winter break ever. Only one thing is for certain. First love never dies.

All she wanted a night in, nothing special. She just happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, ends up seeing something not meant for her eyes, and well the inevitable happens. She stuck fighting for her life. She meets a guy wounded on the floor, it's no other than Marco De la Rosa, head of the Italian Mafia also known as the Reaper for the many people he has killed. What happens when they are brought together? Read to find out. *Mature Content/Strong Language*

Alyx Johns has traveled to hell and back since the night her mother died. She suffered through the worst of emotional and physical abuse, yet kept her humanity through it all. Her life's brightens when she meets her best friend. His name is Daryl Dixon. Alyx takes her life into her own hands by joining the military. It was the hardest decisions she's ever had to make. Escape her fathers brutality? Or leave the love of her life? All her hope is focused on making it back together again with her person, and to survive the post apocalyptic world with him. *-*-* #1 ranked for redneck #2 ranked for Daryl & Dixon (I wrote this when I was 12 it's utter garbage pls stop)

Nolan, an unapproachable guy who ignores the existence of all his schoolmates, sleeps in all of his classes. Normally, this wouldn't be Chelsea Arnold's problem-she does her best to pay attention in class and attends gym like a good, normal student. Unfortunately, she just so happens to be his assigned desk partner in many classes. She's frequently forced to wake him in English class and ends up earning the unofficial title of Nolan's Wake-up Alarm-a title that nobody in the entire school covets. The last thing she wants is to interact with him more than she absolutely has to. One day, their gym teacher sends her to bring him back to class, which he always skips for some reason. When she accidentally shines her flashlight in his sleeping face, it triggers a chain of events that gradually intertwines their lives together. It's hard to be a normal student when you start befriending the school oddball. It doesn't help that he has more secrets than the Big Ben has stairs. ----- Complete. (first person, past tense, slowburn) ----- 1st place in Humor Category of Psychological Novel Reads Contest 2020 (29 Sep 2020) ----- Started: April 28, 2020 Completed: July 23, 2021 Word Count: 160K+ ----- The sequel, The Tortoise and His Sunrise, is up on my profile now!