Lizzie Hayworth has known very little beyond the walls of her orphanage. After a bad experience with a foster family, she has spent the last eight years of her life hiding from those in search of a daughter and instead, prepares herself for a life of scrubbing fireplaces and sweeping floors. When the mysterious Mr and Mrs Atkinson appear at the doors of the orphanage just a month before the Christmas season in search of a child, Lizzie is shocked to learn that it is her they are interested in. With the Christmas season fast approaching, Lizzie must decide whether to trust her potential new family or follow the path she had been planning for. (c) Spruce_Goose

A new collection of poems written by Olan L. Smith starting 2023; all right's reserved.

Journey Home c.2013, Olan L. Smith Journey Home is a collection of poems that is a personal search for my spiritual home. I go about this search with the tools of poetry using the English language as my map. Love, peace and freedom, Olan L. Smith

Random poems from the heart and Soul. Soul collection of Poetry. mostly Poems from the Soul and Thoughts. Soul searching Poems about love and heartbeat plus heartbreak.

Against a backdrop of vineyards in a cozy Italian village, the Caglierie family is preparing for a lavish anniversary party. Excited to receive their son's gift - an original composition - Enzo and Isabella proudly boast to their guests about their nineteen-year-old's celebrated talent on the piano. Gianni's true love has always been music, but that changes the moment he is introduced to handsome Nikola. As the red wine from the family's vineyard flows, and the pair get closer, Gianni realizes he is falling for the mysterious guest. When Nikola begs him for a private audience, Gianni agrees. Finding themselves alone, Nikola begs Gianni to play not his creation, but a requiem. As the night progresses, and all the guests have left, the pair find themselves in the garden, drunk and obviously attracted to one another. Yet Nikola carries a tragic secret - a painful reality he cannot escape from - one that will destroy him and shatter life as Gianni knows it.

Grand Favourite Ambys 2024 𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒈𝒊𝒇𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔. Elizabeth Reid learned, at seventeen, that she was going to die. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, she's faced with a question that no one should have to answer. How do you leave a mark on a world you're about to leave behind? Desperate to do something meaningful with her life, Elizabeth goes on a journey to create something that will outlive her. One final act to save lives, even as her own ends. But will she run out of time to do it?

Cecily Dencourt has her life mapped out perfectly. Marry Edmund Torrington, save her family from disgrace with his wealth, and publish her music in secret. It's a golden oppurtunity when she's sent to live with the Torringtons. But, when age-old loyalties are shattered and her secrets are threatened, can she untangle herself from a disaster she composed? Anthony Peyton is fleeing his past. Escape appears when he's called to live with his distant relatives, the Torringtons. He's here to work. Not fall in love. And especially not with his cousin's fiancée. But Cecily holds his broken heart in the palm of her hand. Is this his chance at love, or is he utterly doomed? Through the social upheavals of Elizabethan London and the origins of one iconic song, can an earl's daughter and a country parson's son find enough middle ground to form a life together? And will their days be filled with music or dreary silence?

Araminta was called a witch. Now she's gone. And the last person who saw her is looking for answers. *** A Good Girl's Guide To Murder x Wednesday *** Two years ago, Araminta Green disappeared. Her neighbor and classmate Jordan Thompson was the last person who saw her, walking through a graveyard in the early morning hours. Jordan was intimidated by Araminta. With her pale-powdered face, black lips, spider-web eyeliner, and her love for tarot reading, it was no wonder that people speculated that Araminta was a witch. But Jordan was also intrigued by her dark aura, sensing that she may be as lonely as him. Maybe if he had reached out to her back then, she wouldn't be missing now. When Jordan is tasked with creating an investigative podcast for a college course, there is no question about which case he wants to delve into. With his cat Kiki as his co-pilot, Jordan sets off to answer the question of what happened to Araminta, even as his recordings constantly get disrupted by a cawing crow in the background. Following the trail of Araminta, Jordan discovers truths both about his missing classmate and himself, because while he hasn't vanished he is definitely lost as well. Will he be able to find both himself and Araminta? *** An ONC novella using prompt #81: The town's witch has gone missing and no one is looking for her but her two familiars - a crow and a black cat, plus the teen who has always been scared of her.

Two households, both alike in dignity... Two constellations at war. The Eridani Matriarchy and the Orion Sovereignty, one ruled by women and the other by men. The conflict has lasted for centuries... What will it take to end it? A Space Opera in three movements Romantic SciFi

WIP|| A girl raised on a farm. A dragon stolen from his kingdom. Together, they must find out who they are beyond their birthrights, even if that means defying expectations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eleven-year-old Darby Quickness works on her family farm. There, she oversees the unicorn stables, and the selkie pond, while her little sister Alvie avoids work, choosing instead to hang out at the mermaid grotto and talk fashion. Darby's fine with her life, for the most part, until, one day, her grandmother up and leaves. With a sneaking suspicion Darby's grandmother left because of her, there's a hole in her heart no amount of chores seems able to fill. That all changes when a strange man shows up in the middle of the night with a note and an egg. To Miss Darby Quickness, it reads. Dream big. Dream of the sky and beyond. - The Librarian at Scall P. S. He tells me his name is Corbyn. Darby doesn't understand much about the letter apart from her own name. She's never visited the library at Scall, or even known that a place called Scall existed. Corbyn seems like a silly name for any egg, and she was never much of a dreamer, not when there were so many chores on the farm needing done. But the man disappears without offering any help, leaving Darby with an egg to take care of (first things first, she must figure out what kind of egg it is), and a directive to dream big, whatever that means. As a strange boy with sky-blue hair starts popping into Darby's dreams, she begins to understand the reasons why her grandmother left. And when she connects them to herself, and her own struggles, Darby realizes the choice she has to make - her family's farm, or her own dreams of the sky. 2025 || first draft ||