Six years ago, Blanchard Collins packed her bags, boarded a bus to Houston, and never looked back. She left behind her abusive father, the town that never forgave her for speaking her mind, and Rueben Bailey, the boy who broke her heart the night before they were supposed to run away together. Now twenty-four, Blanchard returns home with her five-year-old daughter, Willow, and a dying mother who's asked for one final thing-her presence. But coming home means facing the ghosts she thought she'd buried, including the man she's never truly stopped loving. Rueben "Benny" Bailey did what his family expected. Stayed, took over the farm, and proposed to the girl everyone said was right for him. But when Blanchard walks back into church with a little girl who looks just like him, everything he's built starts to fall apart.

"You don't have to tell me everything, just let me be the one who's there for you." She lied to fit in. He's breaking under pressure. But when their worlds collide, truth is the only thing that can save them. Maliyah Thompson is used to being invisible. At Milton Prep a private school on the Upper East Side, she wears knockoff designer bags and tells fake stories. No one knows she takes the train back to Brooklyn. No one knows her mom works two shifts to keep her enrolled. And no one knows the price she's paying to stay. Liam Weber isn't invisible. He's the new star athlete, handpicked from Europe to lead the team to a champion win. But under the surface? He's unraveling. The pressure, the secrets, the father who only sees him as a ticket to the NBA. When Liam accidentally slams a door into Maliyah's face, neither of them expects that moment to change everything. But it does.

Burned Secrets short stories written like diary entries. Enjoy!

The Southern Kingdoms haven't been a safe place for children for the past ten years, and that doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon. Fifteen-year-old Kailani Flair has been staying under the radar after the death of her adoptive parents by fire. They passed the same way her biological parents supposedly did. But their bodies were never found, so deep down, Kailani believes they still may be alive. Along with her two brothers. There's no way the incidents aren't connected. Right? Seventeen-year-old Nevan Ransom is finally free. Living on the outskirts of Mispa in 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦 with his best friend, Myer, and adoptive little brother, Shea. It's nowhere near perfect, but it's good. Until Shea is kidnapped and an eerie letter in scarily familiar handwriting is found nailed to Nevan's door. In order to save Shea, and Myer's little brother Hilkai, he has to go back to where it all started. Nella. His past has returned to haunt him.