because the mythology nerd in me wouldn't shut up

|| a featured story || Aurora never planned on spending her final month alive falling in love. When she meets Gus, a curious boy who is all too eager to waste away the days with her, she finds herself trading in her month of solitude for a month with him instead. Under the summer sun, they promise each other a forever they don't have. All they have is August, and they try to make it enough. [Features a commissioned bonus chapter for the JCPenny #DreamPromposal contest] __________________________ Alex Light © All rights reserved 2018

Taehyung wakes up in the Dark Ages. Trapped in a town filled with the undead and haunted by dreams of a girl, he must set forth on a journey through time to find her and save the world before it ends. All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2018 by Noelle N.

Ellie Sandberg would love to reinvent herself. When she earns a spot at an elite boarding school for young inventors, it seems like the perfect opportunity: A summer away from home, away from her overprotective parents, and away from the hopeless crush who rejected her in the final weeks of school. But no one at the Winthrop Academy Summer Maker Program is exactly as they seem-least of all the charming but mysterious Maddox Cruz. Maddox and his group members are working on a new and improved version of InstaLove, an augmented-reality app invented by a former program attendee, and Ellie soon finds herself invited to join their project. But InstaLove has a history of glitches. Weird little accidents... injuries... users wandering into places they were never meant to go... When a fellow group member goes missing, the tech trail for the crime leads back to InstaLove-and to Ellie. With no one else to trust, Ellie must race to uncover the truth and clear her name...or she might be the next to disappear.

When someone dies mysteriously during a Psych experiment, Rhiannon becomes enmeshed in a conspiracy that includes both the survivors and the killer. ***** Short on cash, Rhiannon Ford signs up to take part in a social psychology experiment based on group think. But when a participant dies under mysterious circumstances, and the story surrounding that death seems mired in conflicting lies, she's quickly drawn into a web of conspiracies that merge urban legends, rivalries, and the very psychological principle the test was about. When everyone is lying, how can Rhiannon find the truth? ***** [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

When the boy with no hopes meets the girl next door, everything changes. ____________________________________ Dumped right before summer break, and stuck in the middle of a heat wave. Truth be told, things weren't looking too peachy for newfound-pessimist, Lee Valentine. Constantly on the move, courtesy of the tangled condition of her family- Harper Harte found she did not have the time, nor regard, for more than her outspoken attitude and frank quips. So when Harper finds herself holed up in the small, middle-of-nowhere town of Pearsons, Indiana, mingling with the boy below becomes a new means of entertainment. So when the boy with no hopes meets the girl next door, everything changes. ____________________________________ formerly titled: the girl on the 16th floor trashy cover: by yours truly highest rank: #25 in Love; #10 in Summerbreak status: ongoing

There's only one thing Colin hates more than Sadie-- Seeing Sadie cry.

What happens when you find yourself tangled up in what could be one of the biggest criminal lawsuits in the nation? Well, you get tangled up with the best lawyer in the country. And maybe, with a little trial and error, you get love as well. Copyright © 2017 by Taylor Collins. All Rights Reserved

Simone Mercer was your typical spoiled rotten heiress. But after being left at the altar, she decided to run away from her past. With only the money she got from pawning her Harry Winston engagement ring, Simone ventures out from her safety net and finds herself in the small town of River Falls. But life in a small town isn't what Simone expected. Join Simone on her self-appointed banishment as she figures out how to deal with the football-worshiping, grits-eating River Falls citizens as well as her accidental rivalry with the dashing town doctor. *The Wedding Party Series Book III*

Everyone grows up waiting anxiously for midnight, January 1st of their 18th year of life. Everyone grows up waiting for the chance to find out who their soulmate is. The whole concept of switching bodies still weirded me out, though it was a natural thing that had been occurring for generations. No matter who the person I was destined to be with was, or where he lived, at the strike of midnight we would instantly do a Freaky Friday and encompass the other's body. The soulmate switch.