This might be a bit of an exaggeration to some. But a few others might agree with me. There is something going on in this restaurant.

Faith Mitchell was never confident. She was happy to blend into the background, much to the protest of her friends. At 16, her life was a normal teenage cliche. She was in love with Jace, the obnoxious player who she couldn't have, and her biggest worry was whether or not he would finally come to his senses and see that she really was the one for him. That is until she is kidnapped and recruited by a secret agency of assassins. She is torn away from her normal teenage life and thrown into a world of guns, knifes and criminals. The agency mold her into the perfect killing machine, and at 19 she is no longer the shy girl that was snatched away from her uncomplicated life, but a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to complete whatever mission she is on. Then, the agency has a new mission which involves Faith returning to her hometown, and facing her friends, family and the very boy who broke her heart just before it turned into stone. What will happen once Faith comes face to face with Jace? Will the obnoxious player be able to reach out and get the old Faith back without pressing any of her wrong buttons, considering that the shy girl he once knew now has a gun. (WATTY AWARDS 2011) (THE FICTION AWARDS 2017) ©makeandoffer

Gale Anderson spends the summer volenteering at the local psychiatric hospital with her best friend Wendy. It was a spontaneous, what's-the-worst-that-can-happen, sort of decision. Well, within the first few days the worst is just what they find. Finding herself undeniably attracted to a dangerous patient on a mission, Gale gets sucked into his plans. Sharing a sense of curiosity and feeling that something is very wrong leads the two to stumble upon dark secrets that will test their sanity, bravery, love, and willingness to live.

High school is hard for most people and for Chloe Miller, this is no exception. She is forced to learn the perils of her choices the hard way and the result leads her to building a steel wall around herself that is impossible to crack. Eventually, her mother loses her job and Chloe is then forced to move in with her cousin and their family. This means a new school and on the first day she arrives with a dynamite mission in mind. A mission to reclaim everything that she had once lost at the hands of others. She quickly finds herself fighting a past that she struggles to forget and creating a future that she can live with. It becomes a constant battle for her, centered around peer pressure, character stereo types, cliques and consequences. Couple that with the plight of falling in love and she finds herself playing a starring role in the game of life where everyone is playing for keeps. Will she win... or will she lose? Excerpt: Sauntering forwards, she slid onto his lap with all the grace of a prima ballerina and wrapped her long arms around his neck. Leaning in to his ear, she blew out a little puff of hot air so that it fanned lightly over all the right places. She felt a sense of utter satisfaction when he shuddered. Now that Chloe was certain that she had his attention, she whispered in his ear. “You may have been the best bucko, but guess what…..I’m going to be better.” She lifted up so that she could look him in the face and smiled confidently back at him. His previous cocky demeanor had seemed to have lost some of its earlier steam, “Who are you?” he asked so low that only Chloe could hear him. His forehead was creased as he searched her face, watching her as if she was some type of strange puzzle that needed to be solved. Chloe lifted her hand patted his cheek. The boy didn’t have a clue. “I, my friend, am your biggest adversary. So what do you say Mr. Player, won’t you play with me?”

"You want to know my story? Most of it's locked up in some confidential file floating around the system, but I'll try to fill you in. I'm a murderer. Still want to know my story? Not by choice. It's never been a choice. But right now I have the chance, between doing what's right, and doing what's easy. My name's Ryan. You might have heard of me under another name some money hungry reporter conjured up, but I'm still the same person. My life story has nothing to do with my life, I'm just a pawn in someone else's chess game. The game of finding my father." ****** Ryan was taken when he was younger and tortured for information on the whereabouts of his father. His father owed money to big people in the drug and money trades, and they wanted to know where he was. Since then Ryan has been held captive to do Mr. Azakasi's dirty work, forced to kidnap and murder people to tie up loose ends. He's been instructed to find people connected with his father and get information for Azakasi. If he doesn't comply with these terms, the he'll be executed. He thought it was worth doing all these bad things to live, until he gets instructed to kidnap and kill Hayley. The only one willing to see past the scars of Azakasi. Is Hayley the one who can free him for good? Or is she just the beginning?

When Chloe Taylor meets a cute little French boy called Henri, she thinks nothing could be more gorgeous... until she meets the Daddy and starts to question her judgement. Gorgeous as he is, Jack the father is rude, chauvinistic and a "manslag"... yet Chloe simply cannot stay away from him. She knows he is all of the above and begins to understand why Jack is that way and sparks up more than just a professional relationship with him.

Isobel Davis will never forget the night she was snatched into an alley and brutally raped while a knife was pressed against her throat. She will also never forget the boy who saved her. But even though he saved her that night, how can he save her from the nightmares that follow, waking her up in the middle of the night and bringing her to tears. Robert (Bobby) Slade has always been known as the local badass. Half the teachers at the high school want him suspended indefinitely, and the local police know him by his first name. He has always been bad news. When he saved Isobel that night the smart, beautiful, head-strong girl that he had secretly admired over the years had been torn apart and ripped to pieces, and the girl in her place was just a shell of what she once was. But Bobby will stop at nothing to find that girl that he had once admired, and bring her back. He will save Isobel, even if it meant saving himself too..... But with a stranger lurking in the shadows, both those tasks may prove to be more difficult that either of them had expected.....