Ashelin lived a solitary life, content in its simplicity until the day it was taken away from her. Battling with her grief and struggling to find her place in a world that just became much larger, Ash clings to her simple purpose in the changing world, having a hand in forging it whether she knows it or not. A story of healing, of friendship and of facing the odds to make a better world for those to come. **This is a first draft, and some of the earlier chapters are...not all that great. I'm still learning and this story has been quite a journey for my writing skills, but if you can make it through some of the lesser parts, hopefully you'll find the tale I'm trying to tell.**

**THIS STORY HAS BEEN TAKEN OFF WATTPAD AND IS A SAMPLE, PLEASE DO NOT READ IF SAMPLES UPSET/TRIGGER YOU. THE FULL BOOK IS ON MY PATREON www.patreon.com/kayy_b ** Leanne (Leah) Rose Ashford loves life. She's young, free and has everything she has ever wanted. What could possibly go wrong? When her best friend, Nina, finally gives in and agrees to one night of full on clubbing and partying Leah could barely contain her excitement. That night was going to be a night to remember. Little did she know how right she was going to be. All Leah wanted that night was to have fun with her best friend, to live life to the fullest and have fun without any commitments or anything tying her down. She did not want to find herself the next morning in bed snuggling up to a stranger. Chalking it up to a one night stand, Leah had every intention of forgetting that night until she saw it. The mates mark on her neck. A Lycan's mark.

I thought I was normal, or at least ordinary, but since birth I've been...different. My life has been turned upside down and since...her...death, my world has never been the same. Until I met him. My names Layla Owens, and this is my story of how I must save my species. Life doesn't get any more complicated then this. Unknown to Layla, darkness is coming, it's reaching and intertwining with her fate that will in the end define her as not only a person, but also a witch. Can she save the ones she loves? Will she even be able to comprehend saving the entire world? It all rests on her shoulders.

Four Witch Sisters, $tarr, Dream, Colleen, and Clover, are known as the Element Sisters, sisters to help fight against a threat, Be. With their parents captured, do they have what it takes to fulfill the prophecy? Better yet, can they sleep on the forest ground, learn to fight with their magic without knowing how, and better yet, keeping sane during all of this?

Anne, an Australian, has escaped and has started to heal. Even now though that werewolf, who calls himself Master, who bit her and tortured her for almost a year is close on her tail. She doesn't know if she's hunting him or if he's hunting her. Sometimes it feels like both. He wiped out her entire family as punishment for her escape and captured her five year old nephew as bait. Attacked the Pack that's given her shelter. Taken things that Anne doesn't know she'll ever be able to take back from him and hurt her in ways that she isn't sure she'll ever fully heal. The American Pack who offered her shelter have now accepted her and the other survivor. She has to find a way to get strong again and heal the scars that don't show... she has to rescue her nephew, marry her mate, and somehow not go crazy or get recaptured. The Hunter and the Hunted... now, somehow, Anne has to find a way to tip the scales so that she alone is the Hunter.

What happens when a #1 news team becomes the top story instead of reporting it? For TV producer Melissa Moore, crisis management comes with the job. From employee disputes to her high-maintenance boss, there’s not much she hasn’t seen or can’t handle. But no one—including Melissa—expects a fistfight during the ten o’clock news. When sexy-but-crazy Alyssa Andrews lands a punch on her co-anchor’s face, Melissa jumps on set to help. She’s determined that WSGA’s reputation won’t be destroyed on her watch. Both anchors are fired and Melissa agrees to fill in—but not before polishing her look from haircut to heels. While the new Melissa wows WSGA viewers, her personal life starts fraying at the edges. Melissa’s husband is away more than he’s home, leaving cryptic Post-it notes in his wake. Her mother’s antics spiral out of control at the nursing home and a stalker decides Melissa is her next target. What happens next? Stay Tuned to find out…

When Ellie and her friends pull a prank that goes horribly wrong, Ellie finds herself in a position to which no one had imagined. She had been frozen in time for nearly 500 years, finally thawed it in a world of split sexes. Desperate for any way back to her old world, she meets two boys who agree to take her to the "Nerd" as he's known on the Boy's World. Hatred and chemistry start to tango as the journey begins to see if Ellie can ever return home.

Losing her parents in a double-murder, 21-year-old Payton comes into her powers. With her new abilities comes a secret. Born as the prophesied Royal that would restore balance to the Fae and bring forth peace and harmony after a centennial of warring between light and dark Fae, she is met with a vengeful ex-lover, secrets to avoid exposure, a love interest and hunters out to put an end to the Monarchy. The fate of all Fae rests on her shoulders. Decisions are needed—simplicity means certain death and Royalty means the death of her independence. © ItalRT4u, 2012

Reid has been homeless on the streets of New York for years now, fighting for cash in clubs and sleeping in empty buildings. With his special ability, Reid could have whatever life he wanted, but chooses not to. When Sam meets Reid on the subway, she has a hard time forgetting about him, and not only because he keeps showing up in the least likely of places. Sam doesn't know it at first, but the boy she just met is about to show her a whole other world.

Hannah Baker cannot stand to breathe the same air as Justin Kirkland...but she adores his daughter, and his parents, and she even dated his younger brother back in high school. So what will it take for those two to fall in love? A screwy family tree, a bitter ex-wife, and lots of long, hot, summer nights.