*** Ansel Adams, or Ance as those he knows tend to call him, is a bad man though he didn't consider that to be his fault. His father had been a bad man, his grandfather had been a bad man--hell as far as Ance knew he came from a long line of men were just a bitten rotten down at their core. Everyone that knew Ance knew he was a man who would never change, never give up his lifestyle, never settle down....Until Penelope Reynolds came sobbing into his life. Ance hadn't given much thought to offering this rich man protection as he took a load of stolen goods to market until he realized that the banging sound coming from the crate was a tiny little blond with pigtails, freckles and a bad leg. Suddenly he's struck with a choice. Save the girl and return her to her family or simply let life do what life does and chalk it up to bad luck for little Penelope--in the past the latter choice would have been easy, but not now. *** Audrey Reynolds had never been so afraid in her life. Her daughter has been stolen. Her daughter is all she has left in the world since the murder of her husband five years earlier. Desperate to find Penelope, Audrey enlists the help of U.S. Marshall Rodger York who also happens to be the man who's been trying to marry her since the day after her husband had been placed under the ground. They embark on a journey to find Penelope and Rodger has vowed to kill whoever took the girl away. But things go wrong and Audrey learns that the very man she went to for help might be the man responsible for every bad thing that's happened in the last five years...... Will Audrey find a way to survive but more importantly will she ever see her daughter alive again?

He takes what he wants and he decided he wanted her... Sarah Serenity Meadows is a strict servant on her way to a strange new job but it's not what she signed up for. But before she gets there, she witnesses a murder that she cannot stop. The murderer decided to kidnap her on a whim and...employ her? But he must first break her down to make her into his ideal worker. This isn't a a story where the characters fall in love instantly over clique side long glances or brief moments of touch; its a story of a man trying to break a woman and her fight against him and the relationship they build.

Zantala City - a place in the human vortex, shrouded away from human detection, and the home of all types of Supernatural beings away from their original homeland to live amongst humans, but still have a place where they don't have to hide their powers. Then came the persecution of Faeries and the creatures now lived under the Demon rule, too afraid to rise against them because of the vast weapons that killed the Faes. Enter 19 year old Air Blackwood, previously known as Ariella Nyle, princess of the Faes. Saved by the witch powers she had been the only one of her family to inherit, she lives in hiding of her true self, trapped in Zantala by the very force-field around its perimeters that stopped other Faeries coming into the city. But what will happen when the handsome demon, Cassius Vaughn, takes a sudden interest in her, and does everything in his power to understand why she hates him so. Will he be able to convince her against her prejudice of the Demons? Or will his pursuit of her reveal all she had been forced to hide?

Every girl has a tiara, her own shining moment, and a beautiful ever after... no matter what. The Kingdom of Triavia is in search for a princess, but being a princess is the last thing on her mind. While everyone else is searching for magical love, Georgiette is busy running an errand to survive. She knows nothing about being a lady, and she's the last person suitable for the position. But when desperate need and fate are calling you, it's hard to shake your head no and walk away. All she needs is a job, and the only option left is a chance to try out the kingdom's tiara.

Compared to the beautiful, outgoing Melody, Sutton Bran has always lived in her older sister's shadow as the shy, innocent girl. Even so, she happens to catch the attention of mysterious bad boy Colton Jones. He steals her first kiss one night at a party and sends her home thinking that her life is finally starting to fall into place... that is, until she arrives at her house to find that Melody has been killed in a drunk driving accident. Unable to deal with her grief, Sutton's life spirals out of control. But one guy thinks he has what it takes to show her there's still so much to live for. All she has to do is be a little rebellious.

*ALL RIGHTS RESERVED* Clarisse Hornitt is a nerd. Or a geek. But, not your typical nerd/geek, as she won't put up with bullshit and will promptly tell you how it is regardless to how it makes you feel. She manages to get into a physical altercation with a certain football player at her high school...and well...drops herself into a whole mess of trouble she'd never expected. *ALL RIGHTS RESERVED*

"It's not my fault that dog food is only supposed to be eaten by dogs..." "You can't blame me for actually heating up an egg in the oven to see if it hatches..." "Can you stop staring at me like that? It's not like I did it on purpose..." "C'mon, you can't blame me for trying to figure out where the air vent actually leads to..." "It's not my fault that I used food-coloring as hair-dye, I wanted to dye my hair..." "...I'm just naturally random." And, that's what lands her in awkward situations. Her random ways aren't going to end anytime soon. But, with a goal to get a guy friend? Something's bound to get messy. Let the hunt for friends begin. Cover by Inferius_

Watty Finalist: Mystery/Thriller, On the Rise I see him vividly in my head. Him. The guy who calls himself A for whatever reason. The guy dressed in a black cloak with a hood that makes his face look like an endless sea of darkness. The guy whose voice is like velvet; so smooth; yet so deep and dark it sends chills down my spine every time he speaks. The guy whose simple words and actions are enough to send my heart into a frenzy. The guy whose black-as-night eyes captivate me day and night. The guy who enjoys teasing me and making me angry, like it's one of his new hobbies. The guy who has the power to make my legs turn to jelly in an instant. The guy whose past is so deep, dark, and bottled up that it scares me. The guy who spends most of his time stalking me; visiting me at night. The guy whose arms hold me so tight and securely. The guy who evokes feelings in me that honestly scare the hell out of me. But he's not just a guy. He's a criminal. The criminal that calls me cupcake.

Welcome to the HMH, or, Human Mates House. This is were they bring people, children, that smell like they're going to be mated to a werewolf someday. It's here that they teach them about werewolves and what it means to be matched with one. In the HMH they make sure that nothing bad happens to the children and that they get the proper education. Welcome to the HMH, the place that Rose Pixie McFea has been trying to escape from since she was brought here at the age of six.

The Alpha’s youngest daughter, Mitchie Oaken, has always known she was different to the rest of her broken family. Where her older siblings had already shifted into their Werewolf forms by the time they were of her age, because she had been the only one to inherit her dead mother’s lack of abilities, she is stuck in her human form. This fact is driven harder when her pack, the Sun Pack, is to go to war with the Tornado Clan – a newly formed, cold-blooded pack of werewolves whose leader has a blood-curdling history with her parents. To even have a chance at success against them, the Sun Pack must unite with the Moon Pack; long-time enemies that had only just recently started to form an acceptance of each other. With secrets spilling through the cracks of her already damaged life, and a sudden and passionate romance on the horizon, Mitchie is swept into a whirl-wind, vengeance filled adventure that she has no interest in. Will she be able to triumph against those who want to slay her and her pack? Or even with United Forces, will she succumb to the threat just like her mother had done all those years ago…?