[NOTE: This book was written in 2010, a time of long-distance phone cards, weight-loss obsessions, and searching for a man as a solution to life's problems-what a messy time to be alive! In other words, I hope you enjoy this throwback, and while this book does end on a cliffhanger of sorts, the sequel addresses any unanswered questions (which is hopefully fair, given that book 1 is free, ya know?] An awkward family homecoming at Christmas. A humiliating public weigh-in, with two judging parents as the audience. The announcement of a deadline for arranged marriage doom. And that's just the first two chapters. In "Year of the Chick," Romi Narindra must find love before her parents find her a husband. Easy to say, less easy to live through, as this book takes you deep inside "awkward Indian living in the West." To escape her fate, Romi wades through the waters of secret-dating, where self-consciousness is at an all-time high, and experience at an all-time low. It's the sort of thing that would turn almost anyone into a man-crazy freak with romance tunnel-vision, and that's exactly what ends up happening. All the while, a lack of inspiration in her corporate job leads Romi to her love of writing, in what quickly becomes a man-quest play-by-play. From whiskey-breath scum bags to uni-brow creeps and everything in between, Romi and her wingmen come up empty time after time. And that's when she meets a fellow writer. On the Internet. So will it be arranged marriage doom, or an Internet affair that's not as creepy as "To Catch a Predator"? Time will tell in the "year of the chick," a twelve-month quest to find love. Tick-tock. --------------------------------------------- "Year of the Chick" is book one of a series, and book two is available at Amazon! LENGTH: 75,000 words or 285 pages DISCLAIMER: this book contains profanities, blunt accounts of the dating scene, and many awkward family moments. Enjoy!

Allison McHartey is engaged. Not to the man she loves, but to a guy her parents picked out for her. To avoid the arranged engagement and unfolding disaster, she makes a deal: If she falls in love by Christmas Eve, she doesn't have to marry Connor Danielson, the high school jock and annoying flirt. But what she doesn't realize is love can be found in the most unexpected places...

**Prequel to An Arranged Marriage to a Jerk** Connor Danielson may seem like the high school player, but underneath that cool facade is a guy longing for a girl he saw years ago on the first day of high school. It was love at first sight; she was in a yellow dress, but he's never been able to find her since that first day. Suddenly, when the memories start resurfacing, Connor is faced with a proposition to save his father's failing law firm. But is he willing to give up on the girl in the yellow dress? Or will he take a chance on a love that might not even exist?

This story is set in Belfast Northern Ireland in the 1980's Fed up moping, after her break up with her two timing boyfriend Johnny, 18 year old Kelly Caruthers agrees to go along to a night out with her brothers girlfriend Chrissie to a disco at a local army Barrack. Here she meets Danny Phillips a young soldier serving his time there, when she accidently knocks his drink over him, she finds herself getting noticed by him, when he insist he repays her back by promising a she would have a dance with him. Kelly isnt out looking for romance, after her recent failed relationship, but Danny still has a way of winning her around with his cheeky charm,

What happens when a small town girl from America moves to a private school in London? Follow Juliet Rowling as she experiences love, finds out who she really is, allows her music passion to grow, and attempts to survive a school that she isn't welcomed to. :) <3 *Not going to continue writing this. I am sorry to my readers. *

Autumn and Summer are opposites, best friends, and twins. Autumn's a beautiful, popular, friendly sixteen-year-old that strives for perfection . Summer's a confident, sarcastic, and unusual girl that prefers cargo pants to any pair of jeans. But when a rumor starts that ruins Autumn's reputation, she goes to drastic measures to cope, and Summer must to something to help her sister... before it's too late.

Letters of romance and the such.

Rupert was done with his mothers ill advised plans for him. He wanted to live his life, regardless of no sure path, and to do that, he packs up with the ruse that he is just visiting his father overseas for the week. His father lives in a quiet costal town in Oregon, and that was far enough away from his pushy mother in London to give him peace of mind. He’d avoided her college plans for him by touring Europe for a year, but then she’d started throwing debutants at him from every angle. If she couldn’t get him into the college she wanted, she’d be more than happy to make him settle down with the girl of her choice. So to escape the nightmare of being stuck to some random girl, he heads to Portara, and meets a young woman that has him rethinking all the plans he’d never made.

Falling in love is hard to do when no one will even look at you, and those that do hurry to look away. Andrea is a seventeen year old girl who has always wished for a sense of belonging, but being only half native to her tribe sets her apart from everyone else. And the other townspeople of Wapatau seem to avoid her just as easily. But life is always easier with a good friend. Her best (and only) friend Kaida has always been her moral support, and Kaida’s older brother Konai has always been there to tear her back down. With only days left in school, and the Spring Equinox festival just around the corner, Andrea looks at her life like a glass half empty. Until a random series of events, and a dark and stormy night, change her life forever.

Who knew a single violin could start a world war? Mauray Hestinska was simply poor. A small shack on 34th street was what she called home; gray would be what she called life. But that all changes with a single robbery. Hamillia Gonies was a selfish person, and a selfish ghost she will be. Her house was the biggest in town, her treasures were amazing. Mauray sneaks in the day of her death. The jewels, crystals, gems, precious stones, and diamonds were all neatly piled in a secret room on the third floor, one that Mauray could easily reach in seconds. But Hamillia Goniez's treasure isn't the only thing there. A violin, with golden accents, sitting in its own little sanctuary, in a dazzling box, becomes an item of Mauray's interests the moment she sees it. In two short months she achieves what many could never, in two short months she causes a dispute, slowly growing and infesting minds and causing problems, getting bigger everyday, until a single person dares to do something simple but cruel at the same time. That's when everything really turns for the worse.