thoughts from the smart girl. //the journal of wren// //highest rank #2 in non fiction// //all names of real people interacted with here are altered from their original versions for privacy's sake//

Eliana Snow is a sweet, innocent young woman who's about to inherit the family fortune at age 21. Right now her parents' company, bank accounts, and estates are managed by the court-appointed trustee - Harvey Snow, an uncle who sincerely hates her. The feeling is mutual. Harvey is capable of anything. Even murder. The plot starts exactly six months before Eliana's 21st birthday. It's the moment when harassment becomes too much to handle. Eliana out of sheer desperation asks the mafia boss Rafael Vincenti for protection and to her surprise she receives a marriage proposal from him. At first, their relationship begins as a passionless business deal but it slowly grows into something more.

Athena is trying to adjust in her newfound freedom but she is forcefully ripped away from it. But sometimes bad things happen for better!

Oaklyn Santidore goes to Acadia boarding school, a school full of the richest and powerful students in Eldham. Her father is the leader of the English mafia, her mother tends to travel a lot, mainly to avoid her father. All of her life, Oaklyn has suffered from loneliness. Until she met him. Now being 18, she's in her final year of school. Everything was going smoothly, her friendship with Lucas, her grades, and her relationships with teachers, until she had to start tutoring math to a certain student who goes by the name Caiden Ford Fulton. All through school, she did her best to avoid him. Caiden's father was the leader of the Italian mafia, soon he'd take over. She hated the way his shirt always became untucked and disheveled. She hated the way his paper airplanes would find their way to her desk. She hated the way he gets kicked out of every lesson. She hated how her body responds to his touch, and she doesn't hate him for it. Ever since Caiden first met Oaklyn when he was 14, he's been infuriated by her lack of interest in him, always wanting an excuse to talk to her. She never attends his basketball games. Never smiles at him like the other girls there did. Never gave him a second glance. Now that he's purposely failing math to spend some one-on-one time with her, he's determined to make her like him. After they start to get closer, they're both surprised at how different they thought each other would be. After getting to know eachother, they both can't deny their feelings, despite the world being against them. Together, they face it.

[FEATURED ON YA MYSTERY AND MYSTERYTHRILLERIN!] [PREVIOUSLY FEATURED ON MYSTERY!] ❝All of this is nothing but a cruel, sinister twist to an innocent game.❞ +++ A serial killer is on the loose at a high school, methodically killing the members of the murder mystery book club at Eastbrooks High. What was meant to be a game of Secret Santa between the members of the murder mystery book club unravels into something worse where gifts are given in the form of their deaths. Norah Daniels has been trying to move on and heal from the horrors of her past, and being transferred into Eastbrooks High was supposed to be a chance at new beginnings. Little did she know that it would turn into a dangerous game that could consume her completely. As the number of deaths increase, she finds herself closer to being the target. If she doesn't stop it, she would find herself dead in this savage game. As she delves deep into the recent happenings, she realizes that every detail has been meticulously planned and that the game is more than what it seems. There are secrets hidden, and Norah plans to bring all of them to light. And she must do it before the game threatens to swallow her whole. +++

[BOOK TWO] Hugo never thought a sexuality crisis would be on the cards for him. Seriously, him being anything not straight was never even really something he'd even thought about. That was, until he kissed his best friend and it should have meant nothing but well... did this type of thing come with an instruction manual? Alex just wants to keep his best friend. Does he have feelings? Maybe. So far he's managed to ignore them. Conceal don't fucking feel as the Disney obsessed dickhead would say. But hell, he had feelings for Hugo of all people? Seriously? What the fuck universe? After winning nationals, Hugo starts acting weirder and weirder, Alex has no idea what to think. Usually, weird is normal for Hugo. They both struggle to reconcile their rapidly fading friendship. Then, well... Shit happens, and Hugo and Alex are forced closer than ever. It's a whole thing. Seriously. IMPORTANT NOTE: this is a continuation of head over heels, it picks up where the story left off, only from Hugo + Alex's povs :) I would HIGHLY recommend reading head over heels first.

Content to live in his superstar twin's shadow, Evan Reed never expected to join the volleyball team-or fall for his brother's best friend. But one accidental collision sets off a whirlwind of spikes, secrets, and unexpected feelings that just might pull him into the spotlight for good. *** Evan has spent his entire life living in the shadow of his twin brother and volleyball prodigy, Ethan Reed. And to be honest? He likes it there. No expectations, no pressure, just quiet. That is, until one day he trips and falls into a boy, and subsequently triggers a highly dramatic series of events that starts with him reluctantly joining the volleyball team, and ends with him dating his brother's best friend. (And unfortunately, after all of it, he's still on the volleyball team.) *** NOW COMPLETED

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When Selené Cortez told her crime boss fiancé that she would rather die than marry him, she meant every word- she just wasn't expecting him to call her bluff. Now, making his bodyguard, Anya, fall in love with her might just be the only thing that will save her life.

Celine Phillips, a mediocre college student had her life turned upside down, when she witnessed a murder by the hands of Rochester city's most prolific serial killer. However, the real trouble starts when the killer takes an interest in her and begins to visit her in her apartment and slowly starts to invade her life. She turns to her professor for solace but things take an unexpected and terrifying turn and she finds herself in a series of twisted events. How will Celine get rid of her unwanted attention? And will she make it out alive? 18+