The Marshall brothers are four rural young men with a strong love for hospitality who have finally attained their dream of managing the picturesque Gray Wolf Ranch. Rowtag Marshall, the eldest and general manager, harbors a long-held secret from their childhood accident which left his brothers with permanent injuries. Huritt Marshall has toiled tirelessly to prove that his successes are the result of hard work rather than entitlement. Istu Marshall, despite being partially blind, embraces life and romance with women until an intriguing man crosses his path. Kitchi Marshall struggles with feelings of inadequacy in both learning and love but is determined to prove everyone wrong. Chris Holt, a reformed dealer seeking a fresh start away from crime, becomes the latest farmhand and discovers more than he anticipated while joining the four brothers. The appearance of a gray wolf on the ranch coincides with their most crucial challenges in life and love, prompting them to question the nature of its reality. Is the wolf a protective spirit or a looming threat? WATTPAD VERSION

NOTE: This is a sample. The first three chapters are available for reading only. Sometimes even the best-laid plans are meant to be broken... Emma Breyer has always been the 'ugly duckling' - the one no one sees. Fed up, she decides to make a plan to finally become the person she wants to be. She is shocked when the plan works! Finally, she has it all - the blond hair, fake lashes, fabulous job and gorgeous boyfriend. But then she hits a little snag - in the form of a beautiful brooding artist. Griffin is everything she is NOT looking for. But he's the only one who seems to truly see her and not just the person she's pretending to be. Now, she must choose between the perfect life she so carefully planned, and the one she has accidentally stumbled into. If you enjoy THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN, please check out my other stories here on Wattpad! Thanks so much for reading!

Winner of 2016 PROJECTWD Award, Paranormal category, on Wattpad. A hunky carpenter plans to adopt six kids -- IF he can convince authorities that he is not crazy. He isn't. His teapot really DOES talk! This is a funny way to build a family!

When her wealthy father dies, Sylvie Pace's surprise inheritance is only the clothes she can fit into her (using the word loosely) "car" and a remote Florida ranch she shares with Walt McGurk, cowboy. (Based on the author's feature film screenplay, which won Honorable Mention, 2001 Writer's Digest Writing Competition, Television/Movie Scripts, out of 19,500 entries.) These opposites do not attract. She's Palm Beach, he's Podunk Holler. She's haute couture, he's old jeans, sweaty tee-shirts, and stinky boots. She's Italian sports cars, he's American-made pickup trucks. She's determined to find a way back to her old way of life, he's only trying to make a living. He calls her The Pouty Princess. She has labeled him The Abominable Cowboy. He says she's unemployed, she says she's "at leisure." He's dating the owner of Clarice's Beauty World in Clewiston. She's dating a real-estate tycoon with homes in Miami and Palm Beach. She's pretty, okay, but that can't make up for all the aggravation she causes poor Walt. She knows her way around high society, sure, but around a real house without servants or a concierge, she doesn't know how to do anything. Some of her mistakes around the house-especially the ones involving electricity-nearly kill him. The worst thing for Walt about the death of Sylvie's father? Harry Pace isn't actually dead. He's moving in the shadows of his former business world, locating and retrieving assets stolen by his former partners. Walt's job? Keep Sylvie safely squirreled away, far from the nefarious activities of Harry and his unscrupulous associates, until Harry can exact his revenge. Things get really interesting the day EVERYBODY shows up at the Palm Beach Polo Club.

2018 Favorite Covers award (Prismatic Prospects.com), 2018 Favorite Reads award (Prismatic Prospects.com), 2018 Readers' Favorite International Book Award winner (Audiobook-Fiction). Winner 2017 LibraryJournal Indie Ebook Award for Mystery. Finalist: The 2016 Wishing Shelf Book Awards (Fiction). In a small, rural Florida town, a popular local radio host notices the new librarian -- which is strange since she is virtually invisible to everyone else, and he is totally blind. Deejay Shepard Krausse has made enemies with his conspiracy-theories talk show. Too bad the innocent librarian, Miranda, is about to become a target-by-association. Can Shep and his dog, Dave, keep Miranda safe when hired killers set out to eliminate all three of them, even if it means tracking them through a Florida swamp at midnight?

Winner The Crystal Awards 2016, Best Multimedia Story (3d Place). A spinster doctor rents her spare room to a brain-damaged patient who doesn't know he is a former undercover agent targeted for execution by a powerful criminal. ~o~ ~o~ ~o~ John Doe remembers nothing of his life before waking up in the hospital. He doesn't know he was a dangerous man, and he somehow has survived assassination by even more dangerous men. He doesn't even know how to speak English, or read, or count. Even after his body heals, he will need long-term supervision and care to re-learn how to live. Dr. Mitchell Oberon has been married to her surgical work for too long. So, she resists being attracted to a brain-damaged patient with the body of Adonis and the mind of a child. Agent Frank Stone, of Homeland Security, forces the doctor to take John Doe into her own home while he recovers. Stone, who knows John Doe's past history well, says it's not safe to send him back to the place he lived before he was "killed" by his enemies. If it ever becomes known that John survives, his foes will make sure he doesn't live long. Mitchell tries to protect her heart while she protects the innocent John from a hostile world. As they live together, the two begin to teach one another how to live. Hopefully, they'll also learn how not to die -- because they'll soon be betrayed into the hands of murderers.

*Officially published by Black Velvet Seductions* *Previously featured by Wattpad* "Laryssa Mitchell is one of the lucky ones. The death of her abusive husband finally allows her to live again on her own terms, making her own choices. Her first official decision is to take back what was lost - her independence and her old job. But she soon finds herself in a living nightmare when she meets her new boss. If her husband is rotting in hell, then who is the man standing in front of her with a dead man's face? Alexander Richards doesn't expect to catch an unconscious woman in his arms on his first day at work, nor does he envision himself willingly setting foot in a hospital again, reliving his painful loss. But that's exactly what he chooses to do when Laryssa needs his help. Why? She has a story to tell. He has a mystery to solve. In the midst of danger, passion sizzles between them, taking them by surprise. What will happen when all is brought to light? Will they be able to overcome their traumatic pasts and find love in each other, or will their ghosts have the final say?" Now available on Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes and Noble. Amazon: http://viewbook.at/HerLoversFace Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/her-lover-s-face B&N: https://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/her-lovers-face-patricia-elliott/1127920816?ean=2940158754906 ----- Old blurb: Ghosts! Who knew they could be so real? Laryssa could reach out and touch him, run her hand along his face. Everywhere she turned, he'd be there. Even in his death, she couldn't find peace. It was like something out of her worst nightmare, except she wasn't sleeping. She was awake, wide awake, and he was right there in front of her... ----- If you enjoy my story, please don't forget to vote and/or leave a comment :) Have a great day! Featured by Wattpad on Nov. 28th, 2016 #15 in Romance - Jan. 4th, 2017 #16 in Romance - Jan. 3rd, 2017 Cover made by Jessica Greeley(Black Velvet Seductions)

See link for Official Book Trailer! ~ When you wake up in a village on the seaside for Pirates, tied to a pole, having just figured out you had been kidnapped, while the man who caught you is trying to sell you for gold, things get complicated. Luckily, or maybe it's unfortunately, you're bought by a young, good-looking, modest Captain who knows EXACTLY who you are. But what he's going to do with that knowledge, you're not so sure. ~ You, my friend, I am proud to pronounce as the Princess of Etholira. You are currently sixteen. And you get pretty much anything you want. And you're the prettiest girl in Etholira. Sounds pretty nice, right? Well, we need something for a story. So, sorry to break it to you, but your Dad, the King, is a bit of a jerk. You're betrothed to an ugly, inconsiderate asswipe. You hate being a princess. Oh, and you've just been captured by pirates. ~ Written: mid-High School 2017 Last Edited: mid-college 2021 Rated: PG13 for sexual references and violence (contains no sexual scenes, cussing is censored)

Wild and willful Victoria Colton had only one desire: to go to Africa and travel the world in search of adventure. Disrupting her plans comes an ultimatum from her guardians, weary of Victoria's hoydenish ways. By the end of the London Season, Victoria must find a husband or her inheritance will be withheld. Finding himself in the same boat as Victoria, Gabriel Sinclair must find a wife or the Hawthorne title is passed to incapable relatives. Having spent half their lives detesting each other, they are now suddenly united with one common goal in mind: to remain unwed, even to each other.