Instead of walking towards me like I expected, he turned away from me. His shoulders tense and hands clenched into a fist. The scruffy converse he wore scrapped against the linoleum floor leaving black line. Silver trudged forward and stopped until he was more that twenty feet away from me. He looked over his shoulder at me as though daring me to follow him. Pale blue eyes glinted with mischief and the air around him sparked with mystery. He jerked his head forward indicating to me he was going. It was that moment I realized what he wanted me to do. He wanted me to chase him. Chase him to wherever he was going.

❝Your smile completes me. Your words make me smile. Your eyes make mine shine. You’re the boy that kept me from bringing a blade up to my arm. The boy that kept me from packing a bag and running away. The boy that kept me sane. You threw rocks at my window, I threw whatever I can find in my pocket at yours. You’re the boy that made me smile when I felt like crying and you’re the boy I gave my life and heart to. And most of all, you’re the boy that’s the reason I’ll be standing in front of the altar when the sun sets tomorrow. Noah George, my best friend who set me up with his brother, I love you.❞ Cher Mabel has always been happy and content with her life. She was beautiful, intelligent, kind, loved and adored. But then someone cut the string that was holding all those wonderful memories together and made them slowly fall to the ground, shattering. Smiles and laughter. Bouquets and gowns. Up do’s and make up. Veils and trains. Tears and sobs. Sympathy flowers and black dresses. Wind blown hair and ruined mascara. Eulogies and cemeteries. No one expected it. Not Cher. Not Noah’s brother. Not Noah. No one expected Noah George to die.

COMPLETE #1 in Fantasy #1 in Adventure #1 in Historical Fiction ---------- Sometimes, believing helps us to see truth. Other times, we need a little evidence to believe. But there is truth behind everything; every false manoeuvre, ever little lie...a small piece of truth is hidden. Just like truth is wound into legends too. Growing up best friend to the future King, Arabelle never really thought her life could go wrong. Whenever she wanted something, or needed something, she would get it. Then she lost her father at a young age and Arabelle was forced into a world of dresses, balls, and lies. Being a tomboy, Arabelle would have rather been out on her horse doing archery practice with her brothers. When Arabelle gets curious and sneaks into a forbidden area of the castle, she discovers a deadly secret: her bloodline is sacred, dating back to a legend surrounded by the one thing she knows not to be true. Unsure what to do, she gets caught up in a series of events that lead to her being hidden and whisked away from the only familiar place she knew. After making some unlikely allies, Arabelle sets off on a journey to find the legend of the last dragon egg. Fate has something big in store for her; will she be able to withstand the pressure of it all?There is one thing Arabelle needs to learn to survive this new place... Some things are more than a legend. ---------- © Isabella Espe 2013 - 2019 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. This work is unedited. Your patience and leniency towards any grammatical or spelling errors is requested while you read this story. This story was written in 2013, and the author knows there are a lot of errors in this work. Thank you for understanding. ---------- Credit to @Abyss-of-Crazy for the cover!

Allison Summers hates animals. Hate is a strong word but that was what she felt. She just doesn’t hate them; she also reluctantly admits to fear them. Every time she sees something moving that isn’t human, she freaks. What will happen if her parents decided to put her into community service because of a prank that went incredibly wrong? What if the type of community service not only involved animals, but stray, wild animals put into a pound? And if things didn’t get any worse, golden boy with a reputation, Damien Johnson was with her too. Will she finally overcome her fear of animals? Or will her phobia get the best out of her? Follow Allison as she embarks a crazy journey into finding herself, happiness, and maybe even love.

"Pretty boy distracts girl, pretends that he’s in love with her. When she least expect it, he assassinates her and pretty boy lives happily in a giant ass headquarters as the number one Master Assassin." Zora’s a young sixteen year old girl who’s social security number popped up on the computer of the Contingency headquarters. She would have never guessed that her new colleague who offered to help search for her dearest friend was the one who was after her. "What guy is ever going to want to date a girl that’s scarred?!" Roivas is a young man ready to be promoted to Master Assassin, but he has to assassinate a complete stranger who he befriends and gets to know better. He’s the best of the best, but will she steal his heart first before he can take her life?

Seventeen-year-old Nora isn’t one for celebrations, but her family is. It's Fourth of July and they have been invited to an old friend’s fancy picnic party. Even if she doesn’t want to, Nora agrees to go, hoping to hide behind a tree with a book all night. Just when she realizes her plan is failing, a frantic and handsome boy asks for her help. He needs apple pies and she wants to leave the party. Together, they embark on a journey through the city on a mission that seems just as impossible as trying to buy turkey on Thanksgiving Day. Get ready for a hot summer night filled with tons of BBQ, historic figures, watermelon eating contests, headaches, fireworks, romance and apple pies.

Music:ON World:OFF Welcome to Syrus. Please pick up your complimentary pair of headphones at the gates. Plug them into your mandatory devices and skip to track four. Listen and enjoy. Cor's world is filled with notes and pitch and tone. Twenty three hours of the day she is hooked to the music mandated by the Serial Seven, Syrus' elite council. It is essentially every teenager's dream: Hit a button and drown the world out. But what happens when the music stops?

Ever had Ramen Noodles for an entire month? Lilly Fenster has and she's tired of it. Which is why she ends up managing the fashion industry's hottest Brazilian model. Lucky her, right? Not really. Lilly can't stand the intolerable Joshua Lachowski . Heck, she can't even pronounce his last name, much less manage his professional life. What happens when the nerd enters the fashion world and meets the biggest jerk imaginable? Mayhem, Ramen Noodles, and love. That's what.

Marley Fletcher is half of a person: stuck in a mindless, indefinite cycle of pleasant friends, obeyed rules, and whispered words of forced contentment, she’s trapped by what’s missing. Senior year of high school brings no more than another smattering of new teachers and Friday nights with old friends at the local movie theater. But Marley longs for something to complete her, to fill her dreamy innocence with passion and fervor. She wants someone to live for. She finds someone who makes her want to die. Selfish, cruel, and impatient, Jude Sinclair has not only cut off his ties to compassion and sympathy, he has torched the ropes with flames and laughed as they burned to ashes. Jude is an integral member of the underground, modern scope of organized crime—the infamous “Mob.” Despite his lack of Italian heritage, he has risen to the peak of his bloody career at only 24 years old: the deaths of hundreds linger at his fingertips, and it seems not one has left an ounce of regret on his indecent conscience. Jude doesn’t know what it is about Marley: a naïve, childish little high school girl with self-esteem depleting faster than the ozone layer. For the sake of a bet and a game he doesn’t quite understand, Jude grows determined to “break” her, to destroy her stubborn resistance until she surrenders to him, and then to abandon her. After all, Jude Sinclair can do anything to anyone. He can leave her shattered.

They met in December.