The Wattys 2018 Shortlist 1st Place Wattpad's The Historical Award 2019 During World War I, a black baseball player gets a second chance to play ball on an all-white steel mill baseball team, an action that shocks and divides an entire town. Targeted by opponents, his own team, and a ruthless gang, Henry Louis finds himself facing levels of anger and racism that threaten both his baseball career and his life. When Henry meets Sarah, a free-spirited girl with the dream of becoming a great writer, things get even more complicated as they fall in love. Sarah ignites Henry's heart to keep fighting for his right play the game he loves. But by refusing to back down, Henry will pay the greatest price. And in his suffering, Henry Louis will unite a town torn apart by prejudice and war ... not because of the color of his skin but because of the color of his dreams.

I stand there with my back away from him. I couldn't look at him not after he hurt me. How was I supposed to believe anything that came out of his mouth? "Helena. I'- I'm sorry. I didn't mean to." taking a step closer. The heat of his muscular body penetrated my cold skin. "Leave, just - leave me alone. I can't take it anymore. You broke me. Don't you get that?" whispering the last part. "I did. Please..." "Don't, your words don't mean anything. You don't mean anything." I wanted him to hurt as badly as he hurt me. "That's not true. I know you don't mean that. You want me as much as I want you." his breath lingering in my ear. "Don't flatter yourself. I hate you. I.Don't.Want.You." hissing as I turned around to face him. He pursed his lips and I knew my words cut deep. I wasn't going to be nice anymore. Kane made sure that part of me was gone. Silence filled the room. It was suffocating me just like he was and right when I was going to turn around he grabbed me slamming me to his hard chest. "Too bad, cause I want you." smashing his lips on mine he kissed me hungrily as if his life depended on it. I tried pushing him away but I couldn't or simply I just didn't want to. Did I want him after what he's done? Lifting me up he walked us to the bed laying me down slowly. Pulling away he took his shirt off then kissed me again. "I want you. There's no one else I want more than you. Let me be your first and last." I didn't know what I was thinking or if I was at that moment, but I wanted him. I couldn't deny it. "Take me. I want you to make love to me." letting the words come out making him smile. Without another word he kissed me softly. "I've been waiting for you to say that to me for a while. I will make love to you until the sun comes up baby." then took my shirt off with everything else. His body pressed against mine. "I love you Helena and I always will." as he entered me taking my virginity just like he always planned to. #47- 11/23/16 #65- 11/24

Cover by: @salsyyyyc Huge thank you to @bookxxlover23 for helping with making the corrections. Warning: Owen Blackbourne, unhinged. AU Dark Fiction Dark Romance RHHEA Series © Copyright

This novel is an adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Blind since birth, Elle Duncan has only ever known darkness, but lack of sight has never hindered her ability to perceive the beauty of the world. Her kind and gentle soul is put to the test when her father sustains an injury that threatens their livelihood, and in desperation, he turns to the most unlikely of saviors-the Rossetti Beast. Don Rossetti is bound for an unchanging fate. He is bad-tempered, with an equally dark and scarred countenance to match. With a heart forged of ice and a soul confined to darkness, he has surrendered to a forlorn existence. But when a peasant man arrives from the village begging for a favor, he is compelled to aid the farmer in exchange for a price-a price that Elle will be forced to pay. Cover Photo © RJ Creatives Cover Art © 2023 by RJ Creatives

Sang's job hangs in the balance. She's beginning to know the team at Blackbourne Investigations. But do they know her? Please read Blackbourne Investigations 01 - Introductions prior to reading this.

She was everything they never expected. Regal and mysterious, Callaia Sosa was more than they bargained for when they accepted the job of protecting her. Little was told of the heiress and there was even less to find. They expected someone spoiled, someone bratty and selfish. They never expected the woman who crashed into their lives like a perfect storm. A woman who's always got someplace new to be, a person to save, and a secret agenda of her own. A woman who immerses herself in cultures, treks dangerous lands just for a view, and at the ready to jump in and fight when everyone else has given up hope. Callaia doesn't expect the ulterior motives her Paw has when he beckons her home with heartbreaking news. As his dying wish, he only asks one thing of her - to allow fourteen men, a team of Syndicate agents, to shadow her on her travels and it has everything to do with their dating preferences. It has everything to do with a dying man's wish to see her happy and loved. Both sides are helpless to fight fate as they travel across the world together. The attraction is undeniable. Together they battle slavers, sex traffickers, the mafia, tomb raiders, and insane animals. Their journey is uphill the entire way, with betrayals and a battle with a war worn woman's glass heart. Her story unfolds, revealing to them that there's more to the 'spoilt diva' than they could ever imagine - a murdered mother, a child she failed, a foundation of immoral freelancers with a cause, scrapbooks filled with faces. She has a thousand secrets and the boys, one by one, become determined to unravel and obtain her - the reckless girl who acts first and thinks after a couple shots with the locals. HEARH #AllHailTheQueen

"Do you really want me, all of me? I'm not like other werewolves or vampires. I can't mark you, I can't fully shift into wolf form, I have a beast inside of me, Genevieve. Is that what you really want?" *****Best Ranking: #1 Vampire 5/13/2015 **** ((ROUGH DRAFT))

The winds of change blow across Egypt as the death of a past ruler marks the beginning of a new reign. Nefret, a young scribe, struggles to prove herself in a society dominated by men and aristocrats. When an opportunity arises to work for the chief physician at the royal palace, Nefret leaves home in order to test her abilities and create a legacy of her own. Follow her journey from commoner to royalty as she deals with political adversity, corruption, and palace intrigue to mark her place in history as one of the most famous queens of Egypt.

Jessica has been with her three men, Dane, Leo, and Sam for nearly a year. Things have been going well. She's finished school, but hasn't found a job that calls to her yet. She goes on jobs with the guys, though, and finds fulfillment there. With everything going so well, the other shoe is bound to drop. and it does with a fateful phone call from one of her best friends. Can her and her men save her best friend before her soul is dragged to hell?

Owning a small ranch has its perks. For ranch owner, Joleen or Jo, as she likes to be called, bought a nice cheap spread and five hundred heifers and a bull. The elderly man that sold her the ranch also sold her the ten horses on it. Six mares three geldings and one stallion. It's ran by herself, and her foreman along with his wife who takes care of phone calls and the stocks. It's been going smoothly for a year now. It's gotten to such an operation that she needs more help than just the foreman and his wife. They were looking for work. Since they were sixteen they've been together on their own going from town to town and any job that will take teenager twin boys. Now that they are way past that and looking for a more permanent position on a ranch, they might be in luck when ranch boss Jo hires them.