Senior year had never seemed so daunting. After her sister died, Avery found out just how much she hid behind Riley and how comfortable it had been to live through her stories instead of living her own. Realizing that and making a change, however, were two different things, as Avery soon understood. But life had not given her much of a choice. Maintaining a safe distance between herself and all those who used to know Riley was her miserable attempt at dealing with the grief. But she saw her strategic plan crumble, forced to face the friends she had been pushing away. The year she believed she could breeze through was revealing itself to be the year she must face all the pain she had been repelling. And there was no one to hide behind now. Word Count: 60,000-70,000 words Cover created by @meha-k [Featured on Teen Fiction's "Soul Deep" Reading List] [Featured on YA's "Clueless" Reading List] [Featured on YARomance's "A Diary of Everything" Reading List] [Featured on Sport's "Bouncin' N' Dribblin'" Reading List] [Featured on WattpadESL's "Believe in Youth and Dream" Reading List] [Featured on Wattpad Community's "Teen Fiction/Young Adult" Reading List] [Featured on WattCliches's "Myriad of Emotions" Reading List] [Featured on WattpadFriendsandFamily "Always With You" Reading List]

Riley's life is a constant battle. At 15, she's a shy, anxious girl trying to navigate a world that feels like it's always on the edge of falling apart. Her older brother, Atlas, is the one who keeps them both afloat-protecting her and their 6-year-old brother, Neo, from the chaos of their abusive father. While Atlas works to keep a roof over their heads, Riley faces bullying at school and the constant strain of their broken home. Neo, who has autism, struggles to find his place in the world, often retreating into himself to escape the noise around him. But as tensions grow and their father's temper worsens, Riley finds herself caught in the middle, powerless and afraid. With Atlas fighting to keep them safe, can the siblings survive the storm brewing in their own home, or will it tear them apart?

Anyone who has grown up in a home filled with volatility and sinister secrets or who has seen it will agree that child abuse is wrong and repulsive. In this story, a preteen undergoes the struggle of wanting to come clean about her abusive parents but being afraid of the repercussions. Will she manage to defend herself? Can she ever forget that life and move on? ******************* Elora was born and raised in Michigan by her parents and her older brother, whom she considers "abusive" and who she is unwilling to reveal to people she has a strong friendship with. She learns her parents have been keeping her adoption a secret on her twelfth birthday. With the aid of guidance, she is able to leave the violent privilege of her prior life and travel the real world to a new city where she must rely on adults to find her real parents and lead a better life. She sees the future with the assistance of her guardian angel, and she uses it to find what she's looking for. But Elora is unaware of how her life will be changed irrevocably by this journey of pursuing her own path. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏, 𝑰 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒊𝒕.

In rain-soaked Dublin, Aoife begins to unravel the life she thought was hers, discovering that love, identity, and belonging are not given - they are claimed. *** Aoife Brennan planned the perfect night to celebrate the life she thought they were building together. But when the clock strikes midnight, she discovers that some truths don't come crashing down - they unravel, quietly. Set in the rainy corners of Dublin, The Placeholder is a story of love mistaken for fate, and the quiet ache of being someone's almost.

She's a just a new girl that's works at a corner store trying to stay unknown from her past. He's just one of the five leaders of the city's mafia experiencing his first time being in love A love story created just by a pack of cigarettes and a bag of chips. -------------------------------- Arching my back, I moan out as he kisses on my neck. Coming back up to my face, Nick interlaces our hands and places them above my head"Can we go all the way?" Staring up at Nick, I give him a small smile before nodding my head.Smiling back down to me, he lowers his head and kisses me I will never understand how the guy that can hold a gun and shoot with no mercy can be so........gentle. This is a love story within the love story of my last book "Dealing with the Delinquent". I want to say you don't have to read that to read this book, but I highly recommend it.

"Because you guys don't look at each-other with butterflies and happiness. You look at each other with reality but at the same time there's a fairytale waiting for you." When Juliette Laurent returns back to Monaco she surprises everyone, especially Charles Leclerc, why did she finally come home? What is she hiding?

Within the span of a year, Noa Barret lost both her mother and her father. Desperate not to lose anyone else she cares about, Noa forbids creating strong bonds with those around her. Though, this proves to be challenging when she is forced to move across town to live with her older brother, whom she hasn't seen in years. Stricken with grief she doesn't know how to cope with, Noa struggles to comprehend the new changes in her life. That is until some new, seemingly unwanted friends show her what it's like to feel again.

Bronwyn Larson has spent her whole life not depending on her mother, a constantly recovering addict, until the moment her life was literally torn apart when an EF4 tornado ripped through their trailer park and her mom is found dead, miles away after the storm. Suddenly, her estranged father is a part of her life, a prominent state senator who's been absent since Bronwyn was born, a product of her parents' secretive affair. After living alone with her mother in a trailer for seventeen years, Bronwyn now has a stepmother and four new siblings, including an older brother and sister who seem skeptical, if not actually disproving, of Bronwyn living with them. While staying with them in their vacation lake house an hour away from what she called home, Bronwyn is hit with the bombshell that her mother's death is being treated as suspicious, with injuries inconsistent of being killed during the tornado. Estranged from everyone she knows, except her estranged new family, Bronwyn doesn't know who trust or who to believe about her mother's death. Torn between her life as the daughter of a single drug addict and the middle child of a well-respected senator, all while learning more about the mother she thought she knew, Bronwyn is forced to navigate through this new unfamiliar life alone, with this gut feeling she has. That her mother's killer isn't unfamiliar. 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐃 𝐌𝐀𝐘 18th 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐏𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒 Cover designed by Ashley Bandy

When a fatal accident claimed their father's life eleven years ago, the Marsden family fell apart. What was once a happy and noisy family transformed into a quiet, reserved, and seemingly uncaring group of strangers forced to live together. With their mom off on an even longer business trip than usual, and the youngest of the family, Lila, starting her new college life, the siblings are finally forced to interact with each despite their anger and uncertainties. How will Lila glide forwards into this new pace of life with the pressures of living with her rude and dismissive older brothers, building her ice skating career, AND dealing with the joys and problems that come with being a college freshman? Is there a chance to fix her broken family and discover where she really fits into adult life?

A SHORT STORY! Six-year-old Roseanne, abused mentally and physically by her mother and stepfather. Her life is nothing but living hell with no one to save her. Then, there is her real father, Alexandros Bianchi! Cruel, heartless, wicked monster. Long story short, he isn't the one who will go softy at the innocent acts of his daughter but he definitely can't see a single scratch on her body... WARNING- CONTAINS TRAUMATIC SCENES, MENTIONs OF ABUSE!