^Top Five Finalist in the 2013 Watty Award^ ATTENTION: Due to publishing this is only HALF of the book. For the complete story, this book is available on Amazon! Meet Reece Collins, Washington's star quaterback, best pitcher, and track star. Reece has the money, killer looks, and the perfect family. His life was perfect. Until the shooting. Now meet Payton Jennings. Payton is a quiet, shy, nobody that no one even knows she exists. She has little money, a severed family and bad looks. Most people don't even know she attends Washington high. She is the definition of a no body. The school is rattled and turned upside down when a weird, troubled kid brought a gun to school and opened fire in the hall. Luckily no one was killed or had any serious injuries besides one. Reece Collins and that's because the boy envied him so much it made him hate him so he meant to kill Reece. He almost did, but Reece survived. He lost his sight though and is now, blind. This changes his whole life and brings him to Payton a girl who doesn't care that he is blind. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1680308211/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1586995563&sr=8-32 Copyrighted 2012 © Tara L. Declan

Winner of Most Popular in the Action category in the 2012 Watty Awards. Most Read in 2013. Valerie is Water-Abled. At the age of sixteen she was able to manipulate and freeze water molecules. After she graduates high school she's shocked to find that she was accepted to a university she never applied for - Abled University, at the request of her deceased parents. Valerie soon falls into the Abled community but what should she do when she learns dark secrets that were kept from both her and the entire Abled society?

One second is all it takes for a life to be changed forever. Meet Addison(Addie) Parker who was not the straight A girl. She was raised by a mom and older sister. She only had two best friends: a spunky red a haired girl, Lizzie, and a nerdy genius boy, Kasey. Addie had one great thing in life, she was a piano prodigy. She had begun playing at the young age of three and since she has been on a track to stardom. When she was thirteen Julliard had their eyes on her and knew once she graduated they would give her a full ride to attend. Music was her life, not only was she gifted with the piano, but she could rock the guitar and her voice was not too bad. Addie was on the path to greatness and nothing could derail her… or so she thought. Next, meet Asher Gray, who was the cliché player/bad boy. Asher played girl’s hearts like he played baseball, and he was an All-Star at both. Asher’s bad boy side was one that no one wanted to mess with. Asher got drunk, did drugs, fought, and acted like nothing could hurt him. He believed he was invincible. No matter how many bad things he did he still had the perfect future ahead of him. With daddy being an MLB player and mommy a lawyer, he was going to go to some big college with a great baseball team then after that join the MLB like his dad. Or so he thought… One car crash, crushes their hopes and dreams for the future, as Addison loses her hearing, forever and Asher, loses his legs. All it took was that one choice, and moment for their lives to change. Can Addison ever forgive the guy who caused this? Will Asher change? Can they become friends after this? Can they learn The Sign for Love? Copyright 2013 © Tara L. Declan Any Attempted at copying this will result in punishment.

(Completed)- Aria Cadence has lost her passion to sing. For seventeen years, what she once thought was a beautiful escape, is now an unspoken taboo.Her passion for singing has been torn, broken and beaten down to the point that she wants nothing to do with singing-or music for that matter-ever again. And whose to blame her? Having two successful parents in the music industry and an younger sister who is now America's next Taylor Swift puts a lot of pressure on a girl. Teegan Kemp is the exact opposite.He wants only one thing in life and that is to thrive in the music world. It's hard business all right, but he has the looks, the voice, and the charisma to make it. But one day is all it takes to change that. In that one fateful day, Teegan learns that he has a progressive disease that will slowly deteriorate his hearing until one day, he wont ever be able to hear again. When Teegan and Aria meet that fateful day in the hospital, Teegan instantly wants a friendship with the hard-shelled Aria. The only thing is, he wants to keep the loss of his hearing a secret to everyone-exspecially Aria. But it's easier said than done with hearts and dreams on the line. ~*~ *Completed on 10/31/13 Rankings: Chicklit #40 Romance: #156

Published under Pop Fiction/Summit Media. She's rich, he's not. She's the student body president, he's struggling to pass math. She's the queen bee, he's the loner in school. Celeste Graham is on the top of the high school food chain. Students look up to her, but some just plainly feel intimidated. Being popular isn't exactly the greener side of the meadow, but just one night of getting locked into the school with a "nobody" made Celeste feel normal and genuinely happy. Both of them bring a hidden side to each other. They might disagree most of the time, but that was a little price to pay for falling for their polar opposite.

A Christmas like no other! 15 year old Jade is obsessed with Christmas. Every year she and her aunt and uncle dress up, and decorate their house like the North Pole. You may be wondering, how is this any different to any other Christmas? WELL, there's this new kid at school called Nick. He's always happy, always nice and always smiling. Nick and Jade start to become friends, and soon enough, they're best friends. The last week before Christmas, Nick invites Jade to his home country 'up North'. Yep, you guessed it, the North Pole! Jade doesn't know this at the time, but boy does she get a surprise when she sees all the elves walking around, getting ready for the big week ahead!

"Rose, I'm sorry, but your eyesight will be gone by the end of this year." Who knew one simple sentence could change a life so drastically? Rose is a normal seventeen year old girl with a normal life, normal friends, and what she thought to be normal vision. When she receives the news her vision is slowly deteriorating, she doesn't know what to think. Her life is over. What's a life without being able to see? Enter Chace, a young man who tackled Rose to the ground, mistakingly thinking she was about to commit suicide. He's handsome, suave, and has no idea why Rose is so upset. And even though she is a complete stranger, he decides he wants to help her feel better. With four months until her vision is gone forever, Rose slowly falls in love with this happy-go-lucky young man, but never reveals her problem to him. She's scared. Will he stay with her when he finds out she's going blind? Or will he ditch her when he finds out the truth?

When Reyna Winters-a girl with Skittle-red hair and a candy addiction-finds out that she's failing Chemistry, she's given a final chance to pass an impossible test. SHe needs help from the only other student who has passed the test. He's known around school as the White Coat Freak-a boy who is never seen without his lab coat on. Wesley Black may seem colder than steel, but much more lies under his stoic persona. While Wesley teaches Reyna about science, she makes it her mission to teach him about having fun. And together they learn about a different kind of chemistry. ***This is the first draft written in 2012. A revised version with more scenes and better romance titled SWEETLY & SCIENTIFICALLY is completed on my Wattpad profile.*** © All Rights Reserved

Abril has a secret...she's the daughter of the richest man in the county, but because of a childhood incident she decides she can't tell anyone, even her five quirky best friends. But what happens when the secret begins to get harder to keep? Especially when the one person she didn't want to know finds out, and it's not quite the reaction she was expecting from him.

Most Read in 2013. Book Two of The Elementals. It's the end of Val's first year at Abled University and already she feels as though The Elementals have grown to be family. There are, however, secrets that the Elementals are hiding and with the help of Derrek and Helena they need to find out what those secrets are. Will they be able to coerce the information out of them that could potentially help find and stop the 'inhumane Elementals', as well as destroy Malum?