BOOK 2: July starts senior year with no Adrian in sight. So much has changed for the once close- knit group that encompassed the two lovers. The elephant in the room used to be July and Adrian's "will they or won't they," has quickly been replaced with Adrian's absence and the circumstances that caused it. As the distance grows well into the New Year, and college applications become the focus, July wonders if she's not being put on the back burner by Adrian just as before. Having to grow up and face challenges no teenager should have to consider, Adrian adopts bad boy vices he's never been known to have, instead of turning to friendships or the girl who has yet to let him down. As the four separate to leave for college, counting on friendship to survive that amount of pressure would not be a safe bet. However, "I wouldn't bet against this girl." July finds a way to thrive in her first two years of college and makes her move to NYC as planned. Crucial friendships, university tuitions, scholarships, and scandal are all on the line as the year 2000 approaches. Adrian has overcome major obstacles to reap both the benefits and pitfalls of fraternity life at Rice University, only to feel the absence of the one obstacle he could never overcome, July. Will their Pure Pines "education" keep their heads above water, or will July take Manhattan by storm and leave Adrian in the past?

Riding The Blue is a New Adult, Historical Fiction, Romance by Raye Murphy coming your way in January 2024. It's 1945, just after WWII has ended, and four women in their twenties unknowingly originate the role of the flight attendant as we came to know it. Their endurance, friendship, and personal lives are put to the test as they step into a lime light they had not anticipated. In the midst of mayhem in both the clouds as well as below, love threatens to expose one of them, neglect another, and it comes hard for our leading lady Jane, forcing her to trust in a way she never has before. Just when you thought the 1960's women's lib brought us "the mile high club" along with Pan Am and the pencil skirt... this journey in the sky takes a look at the women who wore one first. They've been called 'The Greatest Generation," those who grew up during the great depression, then battled World War II. These for women survived it all and came out lighting cigars, pouring martinis and spending thirty thousand feet in the air on display for elite male passengers. "The line must have wrapped around two Manhattan blocks. I'd never seen so many girls...well, women. There were actresses and dancers sent from casting. Several of the Rockettes were there. University and sorority gals, baby nurses and young women from the Red Cross. There must have been girls from all fifty states. At that time, with the war just ending, if you weren't married, a school teacher, a secretary or had a job at the telephone company, what else could you do but get in a line like that? Like what precisely, we weren't certain. Anything I knew about it was written on a sign when I got near the front of the line. It said: NO SQUEAKY VOICES, NO THICK ANKLES, NO GUMMY SMILES... Oh, and at the bottom it said you can't ever have been married before. That, and something about an age limit that was per their discretion." --- the last surviving Stewardess

Can a single kiss melt away years of friendship. Build it... Or destroy it.. Will best friends be able to endure love and loss more brightly than the fire that burns between them. One Favour. A Few Secrets. Lots of Tears. Drama Queens and Spicy Romance. In the world of Annabelle Jones, the fun, loving, headstrong girl and the handsome, deep, and funny Hunter Scott in ANNA where they must face their biggest fear... Pretend to love each other, without falling in love.

A 90's Friday Night Lights meets Fifty Shades, only the town is the sadomasochist and the two young lovers their pawns. July Elizabeth Edwards is stuck in the existence her pretentious, rural East Texas town has allotted her. A shift in social status junior year provokes unlikely ride or die friendships, others' secrets she's not allowed to tell, and an unexpected crush on the ambitious Adrian Reed. The result is far more insatiable than anyone anticipated. July has known and competed with Adrian her entire life. He was conceited and arrogant. She was treading water to survive Pure Pines High. When circumstances strip them of cheerleading and football, the odds throw a replacement neither of them expects, and something the halls of Pure Pines High are certain to reject. One touch, an out of ordinary lingering stare, and something ignites that won't die down, only does it count if it's a secret? How long will it stay behind closed doors? When love is denied, lust becomes unapologetic. Set figuratively to a Soundtrack of Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Counting Crows, R.E.M., The Cranberries and Radiohead. #1- lusttolove TRIGGERS: sexual situations, eating disorder, rape, drugs

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. Some rules were made to be broken. As a certified stand-up bro, Nick Maguire knows that some things in life are sacred: Do not skip ab workouts. Never back down from spicy foods. And always accept the outcome of Rock, Paper, Scissors. For these are the revered doctrines of The Bro Code, rules of conduct that have been passed down through the ages from bro to bro. Heading into his senior year, Cassidy High's star soccer player has his priorities straight and intends to spend his time playing sports, hanging out, and living by the code. But when his best bro Carter's sister Eliza returns from studying overseas, the awkward, academic girl Nick remembers is different. Carter might be Nick's bro, but Eliza becomes his whole world-and he has to make a choice between them. Is being with the girl of your dreams worth breaking the most important rule: never date your best friend's sister? Somehow, Nick never expected that following The Bro Code may have even bigger consequences than breaking it.

Bad Boy's Girl is hitting the big screen SOON! Brought to life by Lotus Production, Diamond Films España, and WEBTOON Productions. AVAILABLE NOW IN PAPERBACK AND EBOOK WITH EXCLUSIVE COLE POV CHAPTERS:http://badboysgirl.pagedemo.co/ "Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you'd follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix." Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever Tessa O'Connell is a girl as ordinary as they come-or so she thinks. Her aim for senior year is to keep her head down yet somehow manage to convince her childhood love Jay Stone to love her back. What she isn't prepared for is for Jay's brother, Cole to return to town and change the life she's always been seemingly content to live. Tall, gorgeous as all hell and a bad boy with ocean blue eyes and the perfect edge of adorability, he was her greatest tormentor, her number one enemy.But the guy that's come back is like no one Tessa's ever come across. He challenges her, he tests her limits, he forces her to bring out the girl she's long ago buried under a veil of mediocrity and most of all he compels her to consider that perhaps the boy that infuriates her to the point of no return might just her guardian angel. Warning: The story comes with a bad boy notorious for making you swoon, inducing hysterical laughter and making you question whether you could purchase a clone on eBay.

What happens when Ms Innocent, Chelsea-Anne Richards is kicked out of her dorm room and has no place to stay? What happens when a curly-haired stranger offers her a place with his best friend? His best friend, Kyle Chambers aka Mr Rude. Rude is an understatement, not to mention that he's a womanizer too. He can't stand her and makes sure to mention it every time. She hates to admit it but the guy is drop-dead gorgeous. He looks like a page straight out of a Calvin Klein magazine. What happens when Chelsea is dragged into the dangerous rollercoaster that is Kyle's life? Will Chelsea be able to deal with all these changes? Also... will they ever be friends? Probably less. But... maybe M O R E. Join Chelsea and Kyle through their ups, downs, college life, ridiculous rules, illegal activities, many many arguments, psycho brothers, dangerous fathers, missing sisters, bitter exes, arch-nemesis and most importantly... their crazy, crazy friends. You don't want to miss it. #1 in dragracing [23/04/2020] #10 in roommates [23/04/2020]

|| Featured FREE story with exclusive paid chapters - previously a paid story || When Haley discovers the truth behind Xavier, whose silence holds a deeper meaning, she sets her mind on making his life better one small step at a time. ***** Haley Rosamond is happy with her simple life, content under the wing of her father. Well-protected, she has no idea of the darkness surrounding Xavier Hunt, with his all-black attire and infrequent presence in school-accompanied by his bruises and scars. That is, until Haley catches a glimpse of Xavier's reality and is made to question everything she knows about family and life in general. The truth, she realizes, couldn't be more different from everything she has heard. Supported by her father, Haley sets her mind on helping Xavier any way she can, and what begins with tutoring sessions, free food, and random acts of kindness blooms into friendship and something a little more. But when Haley's admission into her dream college and another tragedy in Xavier's life threaten to undo everything she has worked for, Haley needs to decide if she'll stick by Xavier or simply be another person in his life that disappears. [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]] Cover designed by Holly Thurston