Willow Chase had never known it would be over. The results are in, and her life's on the line. Until one day, Jesse West, a boy she meets in her backyard of all places, comes into her life. What does this dark stranger do to change everything Willow knows?

[finished] thoughts are whispers floating in the wind, capturing every part of our being in the way only we know [lowercase intended]

Have you ever had those days where you felt like you couldn't tell anyone anything?

A newly expanded and professionally edited version of the Boy in the Woods is now available for sale as an ebook and paperback! Buy it at Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and many other online outlets. Winner of the 2014 Wattys Talk of the Town award. After a devastating accident takes Jess's parents, a cold and controlling uncle is the only family she has left. Ripping away everything she's ever known, he takes her far from her home in the big city to live on the rural family estate. With a spoiled and stuck up older cousin the only other young person in the home, Jess struggles to adjust to her new life of loneliness and quiet isolation. While exploring the woods surrounding her home one day, she stumbles upon a mysterious boy. Desperate for a friend, she's instantly drawn to him, but he's deeply distrustful and wants nothing to do with her. Sneaking away to see him, she works hard to break through his walls and slowly gains his trust. As time passes, their bond grows from forbidden friendship into something more, but the threat they'll be caught looms closer. How far will Jess have to go to protect the boy she's fallen in love with? Or will her uncle find out about them before she can escape his control? The Boy in the Woods is a mysterious and poignant coming of age novel set in the late 1950's, with the same classic feel as A Little Princess and The Secret Garden. As one of the top ten most read historical fiction stories on the popular reading website Wattpad.com, it's already loved by tens of thousands of readers. This compelling story is twice the length of the average young adult novel, and is appropriate for ages 14 to adult. By the same author as Wattys finalists Stolen Hearts and Love You Forever! Best Ranking: Historical Fiction #1 General Fiction #3 Warning: This story contains occasional language and mild violence.

Con - ver - sa - tion /kanver saSHen/ (noun) The informal exchange of ideas by spoken words. A simple word yet with infinite meanings. A conversation between two people can lead to a budding friendship, a passionate hatred or even a rare case of finding their soul mate. But a conversation always leads to one thing- understanding. For Lizzy, one conversation was enough to change it all. She begins her path of self-discovery through little conversations with a certain stranger, and through him, many others, and in that journey realizes that it's not only the conversations that elicited feelings in her but the conversationalists themselves. "The beginning of love comes with simple expressions...a smile, a touch...or a conversation."