When kids are young and full of innocent wonder, they're asked the question that will haunt them far into their adult lives: what do you want to be when you're older? Kyleigh Frost's answer to this very question was that she wanted to be thin. Ever since she could remember, all she wanted to do with her life is to be the skinniest girl out of everyone she met on the streets. If she couldn't be the brightest kid in her school or win the next cycle of America's Next Top Model, she might as well be the thinnest one there. After all, to be fat is the biggest sin one could ever commit in today's society.

BOOK ONE of the KINGDOM TRILOGY One moment can change everything. No one knows better than Clarity Smith. In a single second, you can lose everything you are in exchange for something else-for someone else. But that isn't even the beginning. Kidnapped and torn from the life she has known, Clarity is thrust into a strange world where nothing is as it seems and the prettiest of things can be the deadliest. Searching for answers to questions unknown, will she be able to handle the truth or fall prey to it? In a tale of twisted romance and old betrayals, Clarity must find out who she really is and choose between the two men who once meant the world to her heart.

Revenge drives Lisa Doubek to sleep with boys so naïve they believe she's also losing her virginity. Her relentless, successful pursuit of her next cherry will win her secret sex club's Dirty Dozen contest. Instead she falls for a guy, who leaves her without warning. Devastated, she has sex with everything--even making a blockbuster porn video using the name Tempest. But loathing herself, she immediately disappears behind baggy clothes and nerdy glasses. Hard work earns her summa cum laude, a new life, and finally real love of a fantastic guy that she meets as a Peace Corps worker in a remote African village.

Shawna Roberts is the girl that every guy turns to when they need a fake date, a fake girlfriend, a fake fling to make some other girl jealous, a fake couple photo to send to their parents... Shawna's pretty much seen it all. But no matter what they pay her for, everything she does has one common factor: it's all fake. That doesn't make being their paid girl much easier, though. Adam Ferrell is the campus heartthrob with the appearance of a god, an ego the size of Canada, and worshiped by everyone to monumentally ridiculous proportions. In Shawna's mind, it's a miracle his head fits through his shirt every morning. Yet despite their instant dislike for one another, Adam and Shawna each need what the other can offer. When Adam unexpectedly pushes into Shawna's life with a business deal, she's torn between her feelings and her sense of duty, which protects a secret she has kept for years, from even those closest to her. And as the two begrudgingly get to know each other, masks start slipping and secrets come spilling out, forcing each of them to confront some of their darkest moments and deepest fears.

The Criminal!Louis AU where Harry just wants to help his friend Liam at the police office for a week, but instead finds himself more often than not breaking the law instead of protecting it. * "So that's it?" the smaller boy sighed, "You want to put me back behind the bars, using fire to force me?" "Well, yeah," Harry stated, still wiggling the object in his hand, "It's obvious who's got the upper hand here." "Is it? Is it really, though?"

Abandoned and left to die out in the bitter night of winter in the woods as an infant, Aurora was rescued by two unlikely companions, two men whom she has come to love deeply. But as she grows older, Aurora start to notice that her "brothers" were not what they seemed. They don't age as she does amongst other things. What secrets are they hiding from her? And when she finds out, how will she react? And whats to become of the peaceful harmony that they created when Aurora realizes that she may love her adobted brothers far more than she should... Love, lies and lust makes a dangerous combination. When it's time for her to choose, who will Aurora give her heart to? Or will she risk everything to keep both as ancient enemies appear?

❝ teardrops blurred the skies that she's lost ❞

Lily Calvinson grew up on a compound that would later be described as "the cult of the century." Followers were taught obedience, that God was their enemy, and any interaction or affiliation with churches, Bibles, or Christians could be punishable by death. Raised by the leader of such a massive following, Lily was expected to uphold and enforce the law more so than others. When a stranger steps in and introduces Lily to the forbidden beliefs, she must learn to hide her growing faith in God and protect her true identity passed down from birth. Tension builds, love is lost, death reaps, and Lily disappears. At 25 years of age, Lily now lives with her Aunt Mae, both in protective custody, waiting to testify in the trial against the very cult that left her scarred both physically and emotionally. Before the trial is over, Lily will have to relive every painful moment of her old life if she wants an opportunity at a new life and for justice to be served. Even then, it may not be enough. http://www.wattpad.com/59443710-the-undiscovered-gems-competition-ugc-2014-5-gold (Gold UGC Winner 2014)

The STN-J are having to branch out on their cases when they start to realise there are things out there that are a lot worse than witches. Can they cope against what they thought to be creatures of myth? Takes place after the series. Sakaki/OC