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Forced Royal by SugarCubes4
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Arizona Touris is content with her simple but beautiful life with her brother, Miles, and her best friend, Jasper. But when her eighteenth birthday comes around, Arizona is forced to marry the prince. While people tell the couple that they'll grow to love each other, they ask the very important question: What if they can't find a way to truly love each other? What if they just aren't meant to be? *Unedited* Thank you to @ML_Brooks for the cover and fan art! Watty Award 2014 Winner of the category Beginner's Luck.
Playing with Bricks by lovinmidnightlites
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Orseline is a seventeen year-old senior who is consider a unique artist with a more unique family. Even with this title Orseline fails to recognize her low school status and lives life normally with smile on her face. That is until two brothers and their divorced mother moved in just three houses down and they plan on popping her little bubble high that she lives in. Yet what if her 'bubble' is really made of bricks? Let the breaking begin.
The White Fence by JacquelinesHOC
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Tracy couldn't have imagined a worse start to her freshman year. The weekend before she's supposed to start school at the recently integrated Mason High in Bakersfield, Alabama, a fatal car accident threatens the fragile peace her town has been experiencing. Maybe it's an omen, but Tracy is determined not to let it slow her down. Tracy dreams of making it to Harvard, and she won't let anything stop her from becoming an Ivy League-trained lawyer. Aware of the amount of dedication and personal sacrifice it will take to achieve this goal, she is willing to give up weekends out, and is prepared for her teachers, friends, and even family to stand in her way. What she hasn't counted on, however, is falling in love. Derek doesn't know what he wants from the future. Lacking ambition, and happily settled in Bakersfield, the only thing the two of them seem to have in common is their dislike for each other. When a high school project forces them to work together, Tracy finds herself falling for him. But in her quest to achieve the impossible, there's no room for deviation or compromise-and there's certainly no room for love.As Tracy struggles with her developing feelings, she realizes that in life, it's never as simple as black and white.
Black Eye Jane by UnicornsLoveCandy
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Jewel Williams is known at her school as Black Eye Jane due to the fact that she hands out black eyes and many other injuries quite often. Lets just say that she has a bit of a temper. When she finds a random guy about to get hurt by a local gang she just has to help him. Xavier is a guy who has some problems back home, but covers it up with an almost constant smile. Right when his issues come crashing down on him a girl swoops in and saves him. Will she be the answer or will she just make things ten times worse?
Fade To Black by sayunspokenwords
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Is a forbidden love really worth it?Jackson Sawyer has witnessed cruelty and hatred towards slaves in his life during the 1800s. He has vowed to become a better person and accept all persons of color, and secretly befriend the new slave his father just bought, Clementine. A beautiful girl who caught his eye and his heart, will change and challenge Jackson's point of view from a young boy to a young adult. What will become of this friendship? What will the world think of their taboo relationship when it becomes more than master and slave? Find out in "Fade To Black"!
The Man In Silk Chains {Historical Mystery/ #2 in Blake Series) by MeepyM
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{London 1800} Affluent factory owner William Blake owes his life to God. After five years of loneliness he finally is happily wed to Katherine Ayim, his former slave. and that's when the gun is fired. When imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, William Blake wonders if he was ever free at all...
What's Wrong With A Little Color? by kamoirm
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What's Wrong With A Little Color is about two teenager, Arlisha and Drew, of different races going against there town and starting an interracial relationship. Despite all the racist problems in there way, will the still decide to rebel and be together?
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Jocelyn's River by TeilorK
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The year is 1963. Jocelyn Smith is a black sixteen year old who is frustrated with the ill treatment of colored people. When she loses her brother to racist violence, she is ready to give up. An unlikely savior changes her perception. A summer romance begins, but it's doomed from the start.
British Invader by QtheMastermind
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Stephanie lives in a boring neighborhood with old people, some who don't approve of her simply because of her race. What happens when British hottie comes and changes her summer plans? Join Stephanie as she enjoys her last summer before college. At least she has a British Invader to make it better.
Reckless Lives: A Tale of the Old South by KatherineElizabeth
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When nine year old only child Lizzie Henderson brings home Michael, an African straight off the boat from the Charleston slave market to be her constant companion, she sets herself and the proud son of an African chief up for a world of difficulties. As her teen years approach, Lizzie looks forward to her debutant ball, and encourages the attentions of Derrick LePoint, the charming and learned son of a wealthy slaveowner, and Josiah Walsh, a hard working, illiterate sharecropper with seven siblings. From the fields, Scarlett, a spunky and ambitious field hand makes her move to draw Michael to her, and away from her arch rival, Lizzie. When a humiliating event causes Michael to flee life in the Big House, Scarlett is here to make him feel right at home, despite the heavy workload, and stern, domineering overseer. As the years pass, Michael and Lizzie plot his escape from the plantation. But can Lizzie keep Michael's secret, even from her best friends? And who will join Michael in his journey to freedom---Lizzie or Scarlett? Tags: Old South, 1800's, Race, Field Hand, Houseslave, South Carolina, Mammy, Derrick, Lizzie, Michael, Africa, plantation, pre-Civil War Era, patroller, sharecropper, Scarlett, mixed race, mullatto, race relations in the Old South, debutant, rivalry, scarcity of females, Charleston, Horry County, slavery, cotton, tobacco, picker, envy, jealousy, demons, prayer, freedom, escape, slave narrative, ancestors, Onomoraiah, West Coast of Africa, middle passage, gentleman, lady, female:male ratio, marriage, courtship, kissing, sexuality, stable, horses, Silver, blood, whipping, recuperation, accident, childhood, swimming, freedom, orphan, motherless child, overseer, blind, torture, virgin, tutor, classics, Shelly, Socrates, legacy, inheritance, debt, ball, dancing, reputation, honor, loyalty, betrayal, secret, honest, pub, drunk, wildflowers, stream, animal rights,chickens, barn, steilization