After getting away from his cruel father's tyranny, Randall has to learn how to live and accept the person he was meant to be - with a little help from a local bartender... ***** An empty shell is all that's left of twenty-five-year-old Randall now. After his homophobic father found out he was gay, he had to learn to act someone else to survive through the years of abuse and humiliation. Now he has forgotten the person he once was. He refuses to remember the person he was supposed to be. Emotionally detached and unable to create relationships, Randall's lonely days repeat themselves in the same destructive pattern: go to work, work out, watch TV, and drink, with no way out of that dark, miserable corner he has built for himself. When a gay bar opens doors in his neighborhood, the fragile balance he has created with himself is in danger of being destroyed when his true self tries to break free. To make things worse, there is a new guy at his gym. A kind guy who has a nice voice and loves talking people's ears off. A guy who can see his suffering. A guy who can teach Randall to feel once again. (Warning, this novel contains verbal and physical abuse!) || Gay || BxB || MxM || LGBT || Romance ||

No one believes in vampires, espiecally Helen. She hates all the "Twilight" and "True Blood" things. Then suddenly, a stranger comes in her life and changes that view. And well, isn't the title self explanatory? Hope you enjoy it! First time ever writing anything with vampires in it..

On one fateful night, sixteen-year-old Sofia Romano had to go through one of the horrific experiences of her life. Ever since, she has been hiding in her room as a shell of a person. She's shy and terrified of little things, but she still is a bit uncooperative. One thing she does know is that all of her life she has been followed by a guardian angel, her father told her so, but she has never seen him in person. And then she officially meets her protector. Cold-hearted, calculated, ruthless, feared, and sadistic Alessandro Chavicci. He has only been the Mafia Don for two months and wants Sofia all to himself. However, complications arise (as they always seem to), and the two of them get tangled in a web of lies. Will they be able to be together as Alessandro has always wanted? Or are they going to pull apart? Find out in The Mafia's One Desire. ALL photo and music credit goes to respective owners Mature Content: sex, smut, age gap, violence, rape, language

Fiona Grace's life turned upside down about six months ago. Her twentieth birthday did not go as planned, which ruined her chance of living in the mostly blissful life she had. Now, she's unsure of where to go and what to do as she tries to live with James Anderson. One night, Fiona is kicked out of Mr. Anderson's place, and she stumbled through the woods - hoping to find another, safer, place to stay. What she didn't think she would stubble upon was the Devil's Rose MC or Reaper for that matter. From what others say, he is violent, harsh, and cruel...but rumors aren't necessarily true, right? You'll have to read to find out!

I already know about the academy. In fact, I'm apart of the academy. My brother Zane and I got involved when we were 15 from our now adoptive father Phil. What I did not know was that our sneaky dad was going to put us in a mission that was going to change our whole world. Characters are from C. L. Stone and I am not using this story to receive any monetary value. Warning: mature language

Second Lieutenant Avonaco (Bear) Black Feather was a reserve Army Ranger, and Deputy Sheriff. Recently returned from a mission gone bad (where he lost the use of his legs), he stays on the 3B Ranch while his physical wounds heal. Now Honorably Discharged he has little hope of ever returning to a normal life. Gwynevere (Gwyn) Montague is the younger sister of former-Navy SEAL and FBI Agent Nicodemus Montague. With her brother's help she gets a CNA job on the ranch, working for Dr. Rowdy Kincaid. (Her duties are to assist a war hero in his recovery.) Upon her arrival she meets the handsome Native American Cowboy, now confined to a wheelchair. Having lost his faith in both The Lord and himself, he is angry, withdrawn and flatly refusing any Therapy. Can she help this true American Hero find his way back to God? Help him believe in himself again, and help the Ranch defeat this dark shadow that is forever hovering over head? Can she win the heart of this, 'Bear of a Cowboy'?

Wade smiled at her, and their eyes met. Aubrey held her breath as she studied his sapphire eyes, so deep and so bold. If only they didn't look as if they were piercing through her soul. "I know that I can grow to love you with all my heart, and I'm gonna make you love me right back... even if it kills me" he whispered. Aubrey Cutshall is a woman who has no idea what she wants or how she wants it, and that goes double for husbands. When a problem with her grandmother's will causes her to have need of one of them by her 21st birthday, she sets off to find one of the two-legged annoyances. What she never expected was to find a God-fearing one, let alone a good looking one. All Wade Dylan knows is that he's in a bind. He is caught between his freedom or keeping his honor, but his worries just begin when the choice is made for him. What starts out as a mere arrangement of convenience turns out to be the worst idea of his life. She thinks she doesn't fit in his world. She is his world. Can faith in their God bring them together?

As one of Georgia's most successful ranchers, Rhye Collins doesn't have time to even consider dating, but that changes when he meets Katrina Davis. When he sees the beautiful, but broken, girl. It is an instant attraction. It isn't a sexual attraction, but an urge to protect the innocent beauty from a horrible past and an even less desirable future. When he finds out her caregiver is trying to force her into a marriage with a man who thinks she is useless, he steps in and does the only thing a southern cowboy can do and asks her to marry him. Katrina quickly accepts his offer, but doesn't believe she can be the wife he deserves. She has been brought up to believe a woman's place was in the home. A wife, by her definition, is someone who can cook, clean and bare children, things she has never been able to do, not that she has been given the chance. Rhye doesn't believe that, he feels a marriage is a partnership and he is so proud that God gave him Katrina as a partner, but can he convince her of that? Find out in "My Cowboy, My Hero".