"What happens when he's your Prince Charming, but you're not his Cinderella?" Alexis was the perfect best friend any guy could ask for. She was there for him whenever he needed to talk. She gave him advice whenever he needed it. She even went out of her way to make sure he was happy. Basically, she loved him. But then that fateful day comes when Caylus proposes... but not to Alexis. Caylus is getting married and his fiancé has asked Alexis to be the bridesmaid at their wedding. Alexis planned on keeping up the façade so that Noah could be happy. But then things changed and something happened. And that was all I knew. My daughter was the only one who knew what happened after that, but now she was gone. But with the help of her diary, I can see into the life of my daughter before she died and get revenge on the one who was responsible for taking my daughter away from me.

A story in which he spends his nights talking to a stranger. #47 in Short Story - 25.07.17 Cover by @guyswithguitars Copyright © 2017 @_illuminating All Rights Reserved

The story of a man who loves his mistress more than his wife. #48 Romance - 19.12.17 Copyright © 2017 @_illuminating All Rights Reserved

A short story in which he finally realises that he needs to let her go... #127 in Short Story - 25.02.17 Copyright © 2017 @_illuminating All Rights Reserved Cover by @asterism

Paisley has a bucket list. After all, she's going to die in three months. What she expects is for her little excursions to be fun-filled and light-hearted, but what she doesn't expect is to have one thing on her bucket list that can only be achieved by bringing along badass Jude Andrews, who's got some secrets of his own. Now that Jude Andrews is tagging along with Paisley while she sets out to complete her bucket list, she learns he's giving her reasons to want to live as long as possible.

Every half century in a small little town hidden in the woods, a beast comes out from the forest to claim his bride on the night of an eclipse. The people of call this phenomenon "the taking". This beast is said to be very dangerous. It roams door to door searching for the woman whose being calls to his animal instincts. He will kill, mutilate and destroy everything in his path until he finds his bride. In the past, the townsmen have tried to hunt the creature and kill him before they can steal one of their marriageable daughters, but the beast does not hunt alone. He has followers among the shadows to make sure his goal is accomplished. Once he finds his bride, he carries her back to the forest where she is never seen or heard from again. Celeste believes this so-called "legend" is just some scary fairytale her grandmother made up to scare her. But was she ever wrong when a pair of moonlit eyes stared straight at her through her bedroom window and entered her room. Next thing she knew, she was being carried out the house and into the woods by a half-naked man who called her his. Who would have thought? Grandma wasn't crazy after all. Young Adult novel. Paranormal/Comedy-Romance @2014

A painful breakup pushes Kyla Evans to get into a fake relationship with the person her ex-boyfriend hates the most: Seth Everett. But what will she do when the game starts to feel too real? ***** Seventeen-year-old Kyla has sworn off love. After getting dumped all too suddenly by her longtime boyfriend Cedric, she becomes convinced that people are never really who you think they are. So when notorious playboy Seth Everett suggests that Kyla fake date him to get back at Cedric, it seems like the perfect plan... as long as she doesn't end up falling for him. Content and/or trigger warning: This story mentions cancer, which may be triggering for some readers. [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]

"Everything's gotta end sometime. Otherwise nothing would ever get started."

High school crushes are supposed to fade after you graduate. Why remember the feelings you had for someone when you aren't ever going to see them again? Valid question. Abby Mitchell was tired of having her heart broken and Zach Green was ready to give his away. She was the shy bookworm and he was the captain of the football team, predicted to go on and make it big. Graduation night was supposed to be the last they saw of each other, both realized a relationship between the two of them just wasn't in fate's cards. But now two years later, they find each other at the same university in the middle of Arizona. And as things begin to spiral in and out of control, not judging a book by its cover has a lot more meaning then it ever did before.

"hey - lydi, got a light?" "literally, metaphorically, or spiritually? because i have none." "that's a bit gloomy, don't you think?" "it's punk rock."