I DO NOT OWN THIS WORK. This is a transcription of a bonus scene from the Barnes & Noble exclusive edition of Sarah J. Mass's novel A Court of Silver Flames.

I DO NOT OWN THIS WORK. This is a transcription of a bonus scene from the Books-A-Million exclusive edition of Sarah J. Mass's novel A Court of Silver Flames.

***This is not the full version of the story since it got published. The complete version is available on Amazon. Paperback and Ebook links on my profile*** Eleanor Sanchez is not your normal seventeen year old girl living in a quiet suburban neighborhood on the outskirts of New York City. She has a price to pay almost everyday for loving her friends and family. Everybody knows about her past but nobody knows about the dark scars it had given her and how she deals with it. She didn't know she could hate with passion until the extremely rude and dangerously handsome Devon Parker arrives in the neighborhood with a mysterious air around him... The enigma in him suffocated her. His reckless passion for her burned her. Will he reduce her to ashes or will his fiery obsession help her rise again?

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION Seven letters, seven confessions, seven clues. Elliot Parker has what he needs to find out who killed his best friend... But is he hunting down the killer? Or is the killer hunting him? ***** When Colton Crest returns, unharmed, to his small town after mysteriously disappearing for two months, his best friend Elliot Parker breathes a sigh of relief. But days later, on the night before graduation, Elliot finds Colton in the lake. Dead. And on the day of his funeral, Elliot finds a letter in his jacket pocket with four words that send him spiralling: I killed Colton Crest. There are six more letters to find, six more confessions about Colton, six more clues to uncover why he was murdered. Elliot has no choice but to play this sick scavenger hunt, and with each new revelation, he begins to question whether he really knew Colton - or anyone else in that little town of dark secrets. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

"Because you've forgotten what it's like to actually feel something." I whispered. Peter's expression softened and the only sounds between us were the steady unsynchronized breaths falling from our lips. He swallowed, the closeness of our bodies making my heart beat faster and adrenaline course through me. The feeling was neither pleasant nor unpleasant as I looked into his forest green eyes. "How can you make me feel so belittled with only words?" his troubled voice fell into a whisper and he gripped my shoulders. "Is it your goal to stand before me and pull me apart until I am nothing?"

In the desert, an instant turns life into death and hate into love. In the desert, everything is different. Boundaries break down, and you find yourself doing things that you would never, ever have imagined. Lilly Linton finds this out the hard way: in the shadow of the pyramids, she and her boss, cold, calculating Mr Ambrose, must face death and danger together. Is the desert's heat enough to melt the cold heart of Britain's richest financier? WINNER of the PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD in the Wattys 2016 Sequel to Robert Thier's #1 Hit 'Storm and Silence'

#25 Romance #29 Theory #56 Mystery/Thriller #57 Teen Fiction *Also in Wattpad's What's Hot List* *Wattpad Romance's Reading List* { based on a true story } .................................... "I want to learn everything about you --- flaws and mistakes, your happiness and weakness. I want to fall in love with you for all of it. That's my theory", he said looking directly at me. I gulped and looked back at him shakily, "Everything?" He nodded; determination written all over his face, "Everything." Two teenagers -- two strangers -- each having their own past to share. Their own secrets to keep. Their own theories to give. What would happen when along the way one falls in love while the other doesn't? Eli's love story and how she fell in love. Started with a theory. Of pretty much everything. _______________________________ warning: will make you laugh, cry, love, scream, smile, and teach you the meaning of reality. (You lost? Follow @thelead :p) ,

Addison Knight is my name, playing nice is not my game. Well, that's not completely true. It's only with the Daniels' that I'm not civil. They're annoying, bothersome, jerks who are practically my brothers. We grew up together so we're always on each others nerves. On my seventeenth birthday - the year my parents agreed to take me on a road trip - my life turns into a disaster. Call me over dramatic if you want, but when your cozy little trip across the country suddenly turns into a massive, chaotic circus, you're not going to be the happiest goldfish in the box. *** © This story, "The Road Trip," is protected under copyright laws. Any infringement of this copyright is punishable by law. © Posted 5/20/12 Completed 7/30/12