When Katelyn Wilds was only sixteen years old, she witnessed her first bank robbery. She was only doing what her mother said: "Take small amount of money out of our bank account. Let's say about 40 or 50 dollars". All she can remember is her heart pounding as one of the bank robbers pressed a gun to her forehead and him saying in her ear, "Wait for me. I'll come for you" before the cops barged through the door. Now three years later, Katelyn is in college and is walking home from a party her friends took her to when she gets jumped in an alley way and kidnapped. The only catch is that the person behind her kidnapping is the same boy that robbed the bank Katelyn was in three years ago and whispered those words to her. Turns out, his name is Ricky, he's a member of the most notorious and dangerous street gang in all of Los Angeles which is run by his older brother, and his mother was murdered when he was only seven. As the days pass, Katelyn begins to plan her escape, but suddenly overthinks it when she starts falling head over heels for Ricky. But with the police hot on their trails and them constantly dodging bullets from their enemies, Katelyn is torn between choosing the two things that she loves most: Ricky or her life.

Darco Thor is a vicious gang leader running the biggest gang in Valley city. Tori Tucker is a poor 20 year old girl working at her aunt's shop in Valley city and studying to become a teacher. What happens when those two meet and Tori becomes Darco's one and only soft spot?

The Wattys 2014 "Undiscovered Gem" Stella Henry is afraid of a lot of things. As a child, her simple, comfortable home life did not prepare her for the sort of people whom she would meet as a younger teenager. Now eighteen and a freshman at Clemson University, Stella meets Charlie, who, like her, has long been keeping others at bay. Though his disposition is kind and gentle, Charlie is a boxer, and his world only reminds Stella of elements of her past she would like to forget. When both realize that they have a safe place in one another, they start to overcome their fear of other people, and of letting them get close enough to matter. In many ways, this is a story about allowing people to matter to our lives, and about meaning something to them, in turn. At some point in your day, in your routine, in your life, you will matter to someone. That is a special kind of power, do be careful with it. "We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them." Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Eddie and Naya never liked each other since elementary school, but a one night stand changed their lives forever. It gave them a chance to actually tolerate each other, it gave them their daughter Chloe. However Eddie's grandparents who are visiting from the Czech Republic, are devout Catholics and doesnt believe in co-parenting alone but the unity of a family. This causes Eddie and Naya to fake a relationship just until his grandparents leave.

Avery wants nothing more than to read in her tree away from people, away from the family that she ran away from but what happens when she meets the sweet and kind Alpha of The Blood Moon whose lands she was staying on? And what happens when she finally finds happiness but feels like it is slipping away? Will she stay or will she go? Find out in The Alone Girl *Slowly Editing*