Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. *** Claire is lost and scared and utterly alone. Her family is in shambles after the death of her older sister Ina, and she's left to pick up the broken pieces of herself as her life heads into a downwards spiral of loneliness. Her heart leads her to 5:48, a little cafe by 33rd street, where she finds her new home. With a broken heart and a speech disability, Jasper has his heart and mouth sewn shut by the winding threads of hurt and fear. Painting and serving coffee in cafe 5:48 are one of his last few saving graces, but the smile he's been painting on himself will soon fade away as everything he's ever held dear slips away from his grasp. Ezra is out-of-sync and oddly cold by the way life has treated his young self. Abandoned by his single mother at an early age, he has grown up thinking that he is a mistake. His constant shaking hands are a reflection of what he often thinks of himself, but the delightful pastries he bakes for 5:48's customers are a reflection of what others see of him. Drew is a quirky rarity. He is a dash of loud, a pinch of exuberant, and a cup of eccentric - just like the meals he serves in the cafe as the only chef there. Behind his playful grins and outlandish clothes, however, are his jutting ribs, hollowed cheeks, and too-thin arms. Sometimes he cannot stomach being in his own skin as much as he cannot stomach food. This family has gone a long way from finding each other, and they'll be going a long way together too as reality comes catching up to them, threatening the newfound happiness they've found with each other. Secrets are revealed, pasts become presents, and lives are changed. Slowly but surely, they find their way back home. *** NOTE AS OF 08/2026: This is the old version of the story from 2012, posted in FULL. Another story that will be considered a reprise of this old version is in the works, and will be posted under the name "Hiraya House."

16 year old magazine quiz junkie, Kelsey Sinclair will spend her summer waiting tables and(hopefully) seducing her secret crush, Blaine Mulder, but a hidden phobia and dare devil kitchen guy are about to mess up her perfectly laid out plans. This book is available in paperback or ebook! Amazon (Canada) http://www.amazon.ca/Butterflies-Dont-Lie-B-R-Myers-ebook/dp/B00O0WTL0O Amazon (US) http://www.amazon.com/Butterflies-Dont-Lie-B-R-Myers/dp/1771081627/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429882252&sr=1-1&keywords=butterflies+don%27t+lie Barnes & Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/butterflies-dont-lie-br-myers/1120422970?ean=9781771081627 Chapters/Indigo http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/butterflies-dont-lie/9781771081627-item.html

Katie Holmes is a caffeine addict. Between college, and taking care of her brother, it's acceptable. Though, it doesn't help that the cafe down the street is full of handsome baristas, including one William Cerak in particular who has a mysterious scar on his wrist. Synopses will be the death of my publishing career.

*WARNING: Written in 2008, some content may be offensive* Stasee is your typical shy, quiet teenage girl until the night her brother's best friend Damen Hurtz decides to finally acknowledge her existence. In a desperate attempt to gain his acceptance she allows him to take the one thing every girl values most...her virginity. After that night, Damen constantly begins accepting her while they're alone and then rejecting her in front of his peers. Stasee's frustration and confusion continues to grow, as do her feeling toward the man who continues to break her heart. He claims that he cares for her, but will his need for his peer's acceptance prevent him from ever treating Stasee the way he should? And if he finally realizes the stupidity of popularity over love, will Stasee still be waiting for him?

{ ❧ The Old Colorado Territory. 1860. } The first time I met Mercy Montgomery, she had a smokin' pistol pointed at the back of my head. But that little spark struck up a proposition that was just too sweet to pass up. And that's saying something, comin' from an outlaw like me. Let me tell you a little something about Mercy-- she ain't got any. { ❧ Gold. Guns. Revenge. }

Falling for your step dad's brother can never be good. Dotty isn't your average girl, she's quirky, crazy and completely random. Her life is turned upside down when her very good looking, 21 year old step uncle moves in. At first she can't stand him but eventually he starts to grow on her. Ash was intrigued by Dotty's wild personality from the moment they first met, but with his dark past can he open up to her.

Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer and an even better singer, she is the perfect lover for any man. Perfect, that is, except for her personality - the one thing you can't engineer.

NOW PUBLISHED BY SOURCEBOOKS FIRE! Sixteen-year-old Jackie Howard knows nothing about her new guardian Katherine Walter when she moves from New York to Colorado. After discovering that Katherine has twelve boys, Jackie fears that living in the Walter house isn't going to be easy. It's just icing on the cake that the boys look like models... Cover design by pizzazz-

Rosalie Harness is a typical seventeen year old teenager, she goes to school, dates, parties and all other typical teenage things. But there is one thing which is not so typical, she got kicked out of her own house, by her own parents! Not because she is a rebel, far from that, simply because she existed. So when she finds a perfect place to stay, there is one problem. She has a roommate, a male roommate, who happens to be the hottest boy in her school; Vincent Clarke. Secrets are told. Deep Secrets. And you realize, not everything is what it seems...

Earth is becoming weak and pretty soon, it will no longer be able to take care of humans, as they have mistreated their planet. But scientists feel they have found a solution to keeping the human race still alive. Another planet. For years they’ve been viewing another planet that appears to carry similar features as Earth somewhere far in space. The Project-Z is a plan to carry 1000 humans and 1000 other species on a giant space shuttle to this planet. The only problem is that the travelers who aboard the shuttle will never make it to the new planet because it will take 1000 years to get there. Only their distance offspring’s will reach the destination. Fourteen year old Adana and her twin sister Astra have the opportunity to aboard the Project- Z and say goodbye to Earth. They have to make one of the biggest choices of their lives: Stay on Earth, or leave forever?