Coming here, I wanted to get lost. I wanted to be so alone I had no choice but to discover myself, as well as this beautiful, vibrant country. A sample contest entry for Marriott Traveler.

Eighteen-year-old Azalea "Oz" Buchanan was expecting to coast through her senior year. But everything changes when an old childhood friend goes missing and turns up dead. Suddenly, her best friend seems to be going crazy, her parents are keeping secrets and a weirdo with a Wizard of Oz fetish is stalking her. With a nosy (but cute) reporter and a dirty cop breathing down her neck, Oz must rely on clues left by a dead girl to figure out who the killer is before he comes after her next. Everyone in her life is keeping secrets and it's only a matter of time before Oz realizes not all blood is thicker than water.

When the quiet girl in Clayton Hugh's chemistry class comes knocking on his door at five in the morning barely covered up in her little pajamas, inattentive, and drooling like crazy, he has no choice but to take her inside. But once Lucy Walker wakes up inside a room she has never seen before wearing an over-sized t-shirt and gym shorts, you can imagine the pure panic setting in her. The subtle addition of Clayton entering the room shirtless doesn't help much either. After three years of fawning over him, leave it up to her sleepwalking to finally get Clayton Hugh to notice her.

the road trip of a lifetime. [ cover by blissom / trailer by blissom ] [ started march 30th, 2013 - ended february 18, 2015 © paulina r. all rights reserved ]

After a devastating accident, Dean Adams finds himself drawn to his classmate, and nurse-in-training, Katie Reynolds. What he doesn't expect to discover is that, as much as he needs her, she needs him even more.