UNEDITED VERSION To break free of the stereotypical box that high school placed her in, Charlie must team up with Liam, the new soccer player on the team her dad coaches. ---------------------------- Girls fall at Liam's feet - except Charlie. She fell onto his lap. Technically, she missed and fell onto the ground because she was tipsy. He wants her to leave; she wants him to smile, yet they're both precisely what the other requires. Charlie has the wild and independent outlook on life that Liam craves; whereas he has the indifferent attitude she needs to rebel against the status quo. They've got a common goal: to be free of what's holding them back. By pairing a moody soccer player with a bubbly cheerleader, the only possible outcome is a lot of teen spirit. Book 1 in The James Trilogy THE FICTION AWARDS 2020 WINNER Highest Rankings: #1 in TeenFiction #1 in Cheerleader

"Do you know what your name means in Greek Alina?" He asks me as his hand sneaks around my waist, drawing me in closer My breath hitches, trying to find the words without fumbling, "My father used to call me his light." I answer, my words coming out in a breath, shifting under his weight, pressing myself against him. His eye meets mine, tucking a strand of my hair behind my ear before replying, " you are my light Alina, you will always be my light." His lips connecting to mine, and I feel at peace, like I'm home. -- Alina Harris, quick witted, stubborn, beautiful, innocent when it comes to things she doesn't understand. Starting a new life, new home, no baggage, free. Yet how free can you be when secrets follow. Colden Aldaine. Arrogant, powerful, self-righteous, always wanting to make something that isn't his, his. -- But when Colden offers Alina a proposition that could save her life, how could she refuse ? She'll have to make decisions that go beyond her imagination and bend boundaries that has been placed her whole life. A new adjustment is hard when the person your living with you absolutely hate.. sort of.

What happens when brooding quarterback, Holden Steele, falls for a broken girl? ********* All artistic eighteen-year-old, Savannah Raine, wanted when she joined university was a fresh start. A blank canvas that wasn't mired by the memory of her dead brother or her psychotic ex boyfriend. She had no intention of spattering paint on her otherwise bland love life. She didn't mean to get caught up in his cold grey eyes, but the heart was an unforseen organ and maybe her's craved pain. No one could blame her though, certain not the female population. You see, it's impossible to resist a bad boy that is a good man. Even harder when he came in the form of brooding quarterback, Holden Steele. For two years, he had been content with admiring her from afar, but when fate-or rather a cramped collage bathroom-brings them together, he's intent on making her his.

*Being Published in 2022* ❝You can't deny that you're attracted to me, Nyx. Instead of fighting it, let's see what happens,❞ he grumbled, hands roaming my body. His thumb brushed my bottom lip. ❝Open up for me, baby.❞ -------------------------------------------------------- Nyx just can't seem to escape her eternal night, the very darkness she was named after. She tries to play her cards right, however, the outcome is a paradox. Whilst she obtains the results she wanted, it comes at the expense of some of her relationships. Angry at the world, her hatred is ravenous for none other than Beckham Hunt, captain of the ice hockey team. Beckham loathes Nyx Taylor after what she's done, that much he is certain of. Nobody boils his blood as she does and when she's hired to assist his team during championship season, he discerns that there's more to her story than meets the eye. She was always the villain in his story. But, suddenly she's the plot twist he never saw coming. Each glare and scowl and insult piles up, put under tremendous pressure by their mutual hatred. Yet, peeking through their fury clouded vision, they find the centre of their relationship blazing. Like two rival stars gravitating towards each other, Nyx and Beckham can do nothing when the law of attraction forces them to accept that passion doesn't always mean hatred, but perhaps something more. [word count: 157,189]