When Maggie continues to act out glorified death scenes through suicide attempts she is told that she's only looking for attention, and it's probably true. But after she attempt's to drown like Ophelia, by jumping into a river, she is rescued and a new friendship emerges that could change everything.

Jayden Renolds and her mother have been abused by her stepdad, Frankie, for a while now. When Frankie takes it too far, Jayden’s life is suddenly turned upside down. She must prepare for and complete the most difficult journey of her life, with the help of two girls she never expected to meet. Throughout this journey, she realizes things about herself she never would have known before, she makes some extremely bad choices, and she’s going to have to face one of the hardest decisions she will ever have to make in her life. Can Jayden handle living life on her tiptoes? Living flat-footed is too safe, and Jayden is willing to do virtually anything to accomplish her goal.

After an incident three months ago and her parent's divorce, Reina Caverly finds a way to cope: cutting herself. Her mother's a workaholic, her sister is an out of control teenage girl, and her dad disappeared from the face of the planet. She can't even tell her two best friends, Joshua and Megan, about her problems. Then she meets young and mysterious Calvin Young about to commit suicide by jumping from her school's rooftop which surprised Reina. He's rich; he's handsome for his age, and does well at school, so why? Why would someone who has everything want to kill himself? Everyone has a dark secret, even Calvin who seems to have the world. Can Reina and Calvin learn to speak up about their issues? Can they find their reasons to live? ______ "One day you'll leave me. You don't want a girl with a rape story," I said as I desperately tried to stop my sobs and hiccups. "You deserve someone who is prettier and more stable then me." "Mon ange ," he whispered to me lightly as he held my tear-stained face. I looked at him and my breath shortened as I met his intense look. "I don't want anyone else," he said, "because I just want you." ______ WARNING: Story contains rape, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.

Tasmina "Taz" Frost cannot feel, she doesn't know how to. She knows no love, no care, no passion -- nothing but pain. But when she and her father move to Michigan from Manhattan, things are going to change. Hunter is a loner, for good reason, but when Taz enters his life he senses something familiar about her. Is it the way she frustrates him? Or perhaps the way she immediately recognizes him for what he is? Two things are inevitable. Number one, things are going to get very ugly. Number two? The world as Taz knows it is never going to be the same again.

NOW AVAILABLE ON THE ITUNES BOOKSTORE AND AMAZON KINDLE STORE. As kids, Drake and Amy were inseparable; the ultimate picture of best friends. When junior high rolled around, they lost all contact with each other. Now that they are attending the same college, where do they stand? Oh, and I forgot to mention, Drake is now a super famous YouTube superstar.

Nancy works as a sidekick with her friend Isabel that has super powers and together they try to stop crime. Until one day she discovers she has powers of her own and reveals some secrets and mysteries about her past life and more people with powers around her too that come to a shock. Will she be the same person after the discovery?

*This story is under construction. You are not advised to read it yet. I'll tell you when it's ready, though. Read at your own risk.* Dreams, when tried to be remembered, are supposedly dark - the kind of darkness wherein you could see nothing. But in lucid dreams, one sees vivid things, one could remember it, and one could be seeing colors. In fact, in lucid dreams, you can do anything you want. You can fly a Pegasus, attend Sky High, or even go face to face with Voldemort or Smaug and get through them without a single scar on your face. The best part is that you wake up remembering all of them - like they happened in your real life. Petula Carter knows how it feels: she can control her dreams. And in her dreams, she wishes to reunite with her faded loved one. But never in her mind she would find something else. Something deeper. Something colorful. And something that could be real.

As of 21/04/2013, this story is finished! I'm just editing it, which is why it's marked as in progress. ______________________________ A story set 18 years after the last book in the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Suppose the Rebellion hadn't quite gone to plan? Katniss Everdeen has been all but erased from history. The names Mellark and Hawthorne are going unnoticed by the children of Panem. The Capitol, now in the hands of a new President, is more powerful than ever and the Hunger Games continue. Lilia Brooks does not deny the Capitol. She's watched her best friend die and looked on as no one cared, so what point is there in trying to rebel? So when she's Reaped for the 93rd Hunger Games, she doesn't realise that her growing strength might just be the thing that will cost her dearly. Life is a game. It's just a question of who knows the rules.

Mara Lynn is the most beautiful girl in the world. James Parker is the ordinary boy who discovers her power. Set on the beaches of Michigan in 1994, the book depicts the joys and consequences of young love as Mara and James meet, shoot a movie, fend off bullies, and explore the potential of infinite beauty. "The Accidental Siren" is a dark, contemporary fairytale available on paperback and ebook at the end of June! To learn more, check out my website at www.JakeVanderArk.com!

* "I just want to appreciate the world for a moment.” She let out a dreamy sigh. “Doesn’t it just make you want to live forever?” * Last year, Wren was confronted with the news she never believed she would hear: Sohpia Pricely, her perfect sister and elite socialite, had committed suicide during a yacht party whilst she was away at boarding school for the summer in the Hamptons. When her family is torn apart, Wren Pricely returns to the Ivy League school her older sister left behind and becomes determined to prove that her Sophia didn't take her own life, a truth Wren has been certain of every since she first heard the heartbreaking news. But Wren wants more than proof and clean justice. She wants to find out who really killed her sister and is dead set on making them pay the only way she sees fit: Revenge.