"You have to learn to live, kid, not just survive."

Nine chapters of the original First draft. I will provide updates when I can on what will happen next with this story. :) *** Ali Anglesey is the picture of grace, elegance, and poise. She's worked hard to be perfect girl appearance wise, aesthetic wise, friend wise and work wise, but it's all an act. An act she's been able to keep up for nearly ten years. After a fall out with the director of her ballet company though, Ali decides to go from full-time ballerina to full-time college student. Finding herself saddened by the loss of the one and only constant in her life since she was eight years old, she tries to be positive about pursuing a new adventure. That is until an unexpected change in events lands her in Professor Henry Davenport's lecture hall. As her past begins to come back to haunt her, Ali starts to wonder if she's made a terrible mistake stepping out of the safety of her bubble. Will she make it through the semester in one piece or will the handsome Professor threaten to tear apart the carefully constructed life she's built for herself and rip open old wounds she's buried deeply beneath years of toe tape and bandages?

He was her mothers coworker. Then he was her superior. He was a friend when there were none. He was a comforting ear, a shoulder to lean on when all she saw was the terrors of assault. And over slow time, as natural as anything, she was his rock, too. Both brandishing troubling issues thanks to their dark pasts, each with perceptive personalities, and far too many secrets that refuse to fade; they go from being strangers, to friends, to... something undefinable. Living conflicted by their feelings, lonely for a supportive companion, and constantly misdefining themselves by the trauma that's happened to them; lines begin to blur and they seem to be getting closer and more reliant on the other. With the question of morality remaining, will they give into each others temptations, or bury it deep away from the dirty looks of society? To lie or love, deny or try, or survive at all? (Warning:This book strives for realism; includes PTSD, VIOLENCE, & other dramatic plots.) Now completed!

Melinda Beaumont is the girl at school who simply doesn't give a damn. The one who doesn't care what people think. With a bold personality and somewhat of a troublemaker, her life is fun and carefree. Just as she likes it. So when the new "oh so hot" teacher walks in through the doors she thinks nothing of it. Sure, the dude is good looking but he's a teacher. A trigonometry one at that. Even the more reason to hate him. But what happens when a string of events bring the two together? Will her tough girl cover shield her from this new feeling she has inside? And most importantly, what will happen when their lives and secrets are threatened by someone who wants to tear them apart? And as for Mr. D' Amato... What will he do about that tempting apple he can't get out of his mind? Copyright 2014 © All Rights Reserved

'Standing up I looked straight at Professor Garrett, smirking evilly. "Hi, my name's Christy Evans and I'm an English major. Let's see," I said tapping my chin in concentration, all the while trying not to laugh out loud, "I'm the leader of a group of intergalactic beings who are here to terminate all those who are deemed too conceited for the good of civilization," pausing I gave Professor Garrett a pointed look of my own, "I live on planet screw you, and I'm allergic to bullshit." Smirking and feeling very satisfied with myself, I waited for Professor Garretts next move. ' -When Christy finds her long term boyfriend isn't who she thought he was, what will she do? She's about to begin college-the same one he chose to go to as well. With the help of her best friends and a new forbidden love interest, can she be persuaded to let go and love again?

All over the news, all over the media. Everyone was looking for her. She was somewhere, dead or alive. When a 16 year old escapes from abduction, luckily with her life, she runs. Losing hope, losing energy, she pounds on the door of the only house with lights still on. She didn't know who the mysterious man that answered was, but he saved her. She trusted Eriq Romanov. He didn't know how, but he now had a beautifully scarred and amnesiac child to return to where ever it is she had come from. With no recollection of how she got here, or who did what to her; The two find themselves tangled together in a web of secrets, scandals and lies as they both move to discover what really happened to Roanoke Fey. Will her new life here with Eriq prove to be a happy ending to her suffering? Probably another Greek tragedy, as the townsfolk begin to keep her their own dirty little secret. And who would have thought that through all the memories and the torture, Roanoke would find herself learning how to fall in love again, even after it was stolen from her by the blurry face in her nightmares.

Falling in love was never meant to be easy. Falling in love with your neighbour seemed too good to be true. Falling in love with your teacher is completely wrong and should never happen. But all these things did. Falling in love doesn't always end with happily ever after. Can two people with secrets, a jealous ex, an over bearing mother, a man who's out for revenge and heart breaking memory fall in love and make things work or will it all just prove to be too much.

Maddie Carson is just about surviving starvation and abuse at the hands of her father. Constantly being moved around the country, when she moves to a new school in the middle of the year, will she find the one person who could help her out of this mess?