Shy and successful Broadway singer, Carmen, is finally at the point in her career where she is auditioning for her dream role. After meeting Owen at the local coffee shop, it seems like everything is perfectly lining up for Carmen's future. When faced with a choice between her dream job and her dream man, Carmen struggles to find a way to keep both parts of her life together. If she could learn to be more outgoing and speak her mind, maybe she could succeed at not watching her life fall apart before her eyes. ~ * ~ * ~ Featured on Wattpad Editor's Picks List, January 2021 Featured on ChickLit's reading list, May 2020

I ran away because I couldn't bear the thought of staying with someone who had betrayed me. Kayden Hawkins, my best friend and the guy I thought I would marry, knocked up Amber Smith during our high school graduation, so I fled our small town, I fled the heartbreak and pain. Ten years later, I'm back in town, and now everything has changed.

For the last seven years, Nyla has lived her life in the public eye as one half of a wildly popular YouTube couple. But when a single video surfaces that shatters the picture perfect life they've built, her world tilts off its axis. Suddenly, tea pages speculate, fans and critics weigh in and Nyla is left to confront the questions she's spent years burying. In the chaos, she crosses paths with a dangerously handsome, well known YouTuber whose magnetic presence and air of mystery make him impossible to ignore. As their lives begin to intertwine, each layer they peel back reveals something deeper, something breathtakingly real. But will the electric pull between them spark into something undeniable...or will the crushing weight of public scrutiny and private fears push them apart before it has a chance to ignite?