Eve thought she had a normal life, but when her world literally falls apart she begins realize that her life might not have been what it seemed to be. After being separated from her only real friend, Morgan, Eve is confronted with a second set of memories that seem to belong to someone else entirely. As her own memor...
Born with a passion for the water and a remarkable talent for swimming, it's no wonder that Rayne Bennett spends more time in the pool than she does on land. But when family secrets become unearthed and lies are uprooted, Rayne realizes that her passion for the water goes farther back than she could have ever imagined...
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children.
A storm of biblical proportions hit the western United States. In its centre, the small town of Springbrook was flooding, residents forced to evacuate to a local landmark: the dark and towering Castle Moore. In the chapel behind, lay the body of a fallen angel. Trapped in his own mind, the angel was jerked from his...
If you want to be a doctor, you go away and learn about how the human body functions. If you want to be an architect, you learn about the laws of physics, different sorts of materials, and how to design. If you want to be an author, you should know how to manipulate language properly – correct grammar, correct usage...
Ash Bishop is dreading the prospect of having to spend his entire summer with his Great Aunt Sorrel Gardener. She always makes him do chores and he hates her horrible cat. But his outlook changes when he stumbles into an entirely different world and is swept off on an adventure by a witch on the hunt for a hidden drag...
To say Elliot Halin is unlucky would be an understatement. His whole life has been a constant struggle, and now that he's faced with the necessity of a double lung transplant coupled with the loss of his best friend, Alex, he's starting to think that the struggle might not be worth it anymore. That is, until he meets...
"Demigod." A word that can shock, determine, transform, chase, attack, and kill. Sofia Sawyer lived a difficult life even before she found out that she isn't exactly, well, human. On what she thought was the last night of her life, a surprising series of events unravels a strange and terrifying truth about Sofia's mor...
Two hundred years ago, there was a mage named Kaenis who came out of the ancient city of Vash'yad. It was said that Kaenis was cursed with a darkness he couldn't escape, and one day, he turned on his city and his people. The mages couldn't hold him, so when his power grew they turned to the non-magic peoples of the wo...
Four years ago Matt Winchester never would have believed he'd be getting married so soon out of college, let alone marry the man who was also his best friend: Topher Stanton. But the prospect of permanently putting a ring on it doesn't mean the world stops turning. There's still some fallout of their public outing fr...
“Please promise me you will be careful. That’s all I ask of you; all I ask is for you to not do anything incredibly stupid. Pirates are dangerous. I would know. I am one.” he whispered, his fingertips grazing along my cheek bones and then dropping to my shoulders to clutch them as if his life depended on it. I took in...
Read this to see the world through a blind boy's eyes. "You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same."~Daniel Knode "Colors?" Edward asked. "What did they looked like?" A blind boy's question about what colors are. Edward is blind and has been his whole life. After being bullied and pu...
Chosen as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2016 ** In 1959 Cuba, Natalia San Martín was nothing short of a princess: sheltered, pampered, and courted by her very own prince, a childhood friend turned lifelong love. All that changed on the fateful New Year's Eve when Fidel Castro and his followers seized contro...
This is actually a bit of an experiment. There is a lot of talk about cliches floating around-- most notably, how bad they are. The idea is: fit as many as possible into one story and see what happens if the main character can respond to them appropriately. If you can get through this, cheers.
It is 1805, and Dr. Stephen Byrne leads the rather simple life of a country gentleman and a physician. However, on a voyage to Jamaica, where he has been summoned to try to save the ailing Governor, he encounters Miss Rosalind Marlowe, the beautiful daughter of the indomitable Vice-Admiral Marlowe, and his life turns...
AN: I would just like to mention that this is a first draft. I do reread for grammatical errors before posting, but I may not catch all of them. If you find anything a bit off in the story, don't hesitate to let me know. Constructive criticism is greatly appreciated.
[slow updates] Kyle Collins and Cloelia (preferably be called Clo) Bennett have been best friends ever since Kyle gave Clo a purple crayon in kindergarten. And just like any girl and guy that ended up as best friends, Kyle falls in love with her in their sophomore year. But Kyle never confessed to Clo, afraid of being...
The Raven Conspiracy The thefts, murders and secrets are only the beginning “It was only my first day, but I was ready to quit.” Working as an assistant to an investigator is so much more than Maya thought it would be. Where fetching coffee leads to encounters with a troll and answering the phone can result in unexpe...
She could be considered a certified insomniac. He hasn't slept the whole night through because of circumstance. She's reserved and quiet at school. He's the silent bad-boy everyone admires. She loves photography. He loves his little brother. Nicole Evans and Caleb Shaw are two completely different people, but they ma...
All Devon Styne wants to do is takes pictures, so when she lands a job as a newspaper photographer, she's surprised to find out photography isn't the only thing she's good at. When a tiny detail in her photo catches her eye, she realizes that she must solve a murder case to clear an innocent couples name. With the hel...
Axe's nightmare has become reality. Not only has he been bought by one of the cruellest plantation owners in the state, he befriends his master's son Henry. Axe has dreams. He wants to get his family back and live on a farm with lots of chickens. Henry wants to end slavery and see his parents happy again. It's not...
When Hope's father suddenly dies, no one can prepare her for the amount of grief she would go through, especially when her grandparents agree to let his organs be used as he was a registered organ donor. Unable to deny her dad's wishes, the organs are used to save lives, but on one condition. She wants to meet the...
"Anorexia. When you hear it, when you say that word, you think of a girl, right?" Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the skinniest of them all? Jack Thorne has lost everything. Still struggling with guilt and grief from his fathers death, old emotions and demons from the past resurface when his best friend suddenly di...
Faye Caldwell has never been the same ever since her sister, Terra, killed herself seven years ago. She's haunted by her sister's memory, taunted by nightmares that mock the day her sister plunged to the ground. The fear of falling and ending up like Terra consumes her. Even the slighest falls make Faye scream, the...
“You can’t do everything someone tells you to do because you want them to like you or believe you,” he continued following me. “Well what else am I supposed to do?!” I turned on him. “Stand up for yourself; have a mind of your own.” Aislinn was a cheerleader, known by everyone at school, a flirt, popular, and a bully...
