When you've had to run for your life, for your whole existence, what's a girl to do when she doesn't have to run anymore? How is she supposed to live a "normal" life? Quinn is that girl and she's about to meet a boy who turns her world right-side-up. Will she be open to the change or will her past find her once again?

Jacob Kline (Jake) is the guy that every girl wants. Every girl, that is, except for Melissa Stone. Melissa is a runaway foster kid with enough problems, she does not need to add an egotistical jock to the list. Jake has his future mapped out. Football. He couldn't care less about anything else, including school. Fate threw an interception, however, when Jake needs a peer tutor and meets Melissa. She's different than other girls and he's instantly intrigued. Sometimes fate is needed to redirect us on the course we're meant to be on and maybe football isn't everything after all?

For most eighteen year olds, the summer after high school graduation means getting in some last minute fun before going off to college and beginning a new chapter in life. For me, it was going to be like every other summer since I'd become old enough to work. I'd be behind the counter of my Aunt Paula's lakeside Bakery, Paula's Pies, where I'd probably be stuck working for the rest of my life. I'd applied for college scholarships, but had been rejected and my Aunt said she couldn't afford to pay for it. She was the only family I had left. So I was stuck or at least I thought I was. As it turned out, that's the summer my life changed forever.

Daniel "Danny" Taylor was my best friend. He might be a boy and I might be a girl, but that had never mattered...until now. Now we were both eighteen and he is suddenly hell-bent on losing his virginity before high school graduation. I knew that I was the only one who knew he was still a virgin. I was also still a virgin. What was wrong with that? Nothing! He was just being a big jerk all of a sudden and I couldn't handle it. Where did my best pal Danny go and how can I get him back?

Cheating parents, black eyes, torrential downpour and caffeine addictions by the fireside - perhaps not your typical recipe for success in enduring romance. But it seems to be working out well enough for Ruben Foster and Sadie Blake. Or so Ruben thought . . . Ruben fell for Sadie instantly. She was intelligent, focused and driven, beautiful, sweet and caring, with a sense of humour which would make even the most seasoned of comedians chuckle freely. But there was also a darkness surrounding her life which terrified Ruben, but which he would have willingly endured if it meant getting to be with the girl he loved and giving her the life she deserved. But will Sadie let him? Or will she push him away to protect him from that darkness she can't escape from yet? 'Officially Us' is the second novel in the 'Rise and Fall' series; however, this delectable novel can be consumed entirely in isolation.

Life has reinvented the definition of rock bottom so many times for twenty-six-year-old Sadie Blake. When her parents divorced she received a new stepfather, countless bruises and a major aversion to alcohol. With her stepfather she inherited a depressed mother, new siblings and a reckless stepsister. With her stepsister, an abandoned baby nephew and a lifetime of responsibility... Responsibility has never frightened Sadie. For so long it's been all she's known, thrown into situations outside her control and forced to just find a way to make it work. But the kind of responsibility and obligation Sadie has had to endure in her young life isn't sustainable for anyone, let alone a vulnerable teenage girl just trying to keep her family safe; and the repressed memories and overwhelming darkness lingering always in the back of her mind grow more menacing by the day, begging to be seen and felt, and threatening to consume her altogether. Through enlisting the help of a therapist, Sadie realises her list of regrets is a lot more comprehensive than she first thought, and topping that list are two very different but equally important people - Ruben Foster and Camden Jones - neither of which she has seen in over a decade, but who she comes to learn will be key to her positively moving forward in life with her eleven-year-old nephew. But the process of trudging through their respective shared pasts is proving a lot more challenging than she anticipated...

PREVIEW ONLY Something crinkled by her foot. Elizabeth reached down and picked it up. A rapid scan revealed it was a letter from Fitzwilliam Darcy to the second daughter in a family of Bennets. Too bad she'd never even heard of a Mr. Darcy. Fate sends Darcy's letter to Elizabeth nine months early, before Bingley arrives. COMPLETE. D&E HEA. On Amazon

It is universally known that a wallflower born in the shadow of 4 sisters must be in want of a social life. (Mary Bennet gets a life)

A simple cup of spilled coffee was all it took for Jenn and William to meet. ♚ short story

When Annie Murphy returns home for her mother's funeral, she believes she sees her estranged best friend - Zach Zimmerman - stirring up unresolved feelings about their past. Their story unfolds over seven years, from their first meeting in college-where Annie avoids relationships and Zach struggles with impulsive dating-through the highs and lows of friendship, love, and family pressures. Switching between past and present, Everything In Between is a poignant exploration of love, loss, and the choices that shape us.