**FAIR WARNING: YOU WILL HAVE TO BE PATIENT WITH CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, BUT IT IS THERE, AND WORTH THE READ. IF YOU ARE OVERLY SENSITIVE, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK* Logan Pierce and Noah Locke are sworn enemies. Both at the top of their class, holding themselves to the highest standards; both captains of their volleyball teams, Logan as the girls captain, Noah as the boys; and both constantly playing seemingly harmless pranks to get back at one another. Or, at least, they're usually harmless... If one thing is true, Noah Locke and Logan Pierce are not friends. But does that mean they could never be friends? Or transcend their title as enemies? Logan might take things too far sometimes, but there's a reason behind the angry front she puts on, and in order to get behind it, someone needs to show her that there's more to life than being the best at everything. Cue Noah Locke. When the two volleyball teams are sent away to a team bonding camp for a week over Fall break, Logan and Noah must learn to get along for the sake of their teams. Partnered up and made to do activities together and bond, the goal is for Noah and Logan to stop this ongoing feud. And when something happens at the bonding camp that brings Logan's vulnerable side up to bat, Noah is the one who has to bring her back. While Logan and Noah explore something other than hatred for one another, there are secrets and people who could be working in toll to bring them apart. But will they be able to transcend those factors and stop fighting for once? Or were they destined to be enemies forever? "Better Than You" challenges the idea that enemies have to stay enemies forever, and proves that if you don't run away from love, you may just find where you were meant to be.

"It is your choice," he said, stepping so close to me that our lips were almost touching. "Either do what I say - or get another job." My heart stood still as I gazed up into his deep, dark, dangerous eyes... In a world where women's only role in life is to sit at home and look pretty, Lilly is determined to fight for her freedom. There's only one problem: a powerful man blocking her way.

Eniola Adeyemi has it all. A year ago, Rogue won the California SCOPE championships and has now won the national title to represent the US in Seoul. Life couldn't get any better for her with her family and friends to support her and an amazing boyfriend. But Paradox is back and out for blood and fights for a sentient AI called Enigma that threatens to topple over the world. After Paradox frames Eniola and Rogue for a crime they didn't do, they are sent on the run as fugitives who must work to clear their names and defeat Paradox. They find help in unlikely allies, including a covert scientist and a mysterious group of hacktivists who might have their own secret agenda. But digital glitches run through the world and threaten to tear it apart, and soon Rogue finds themselves unlikely heroes in a race to save humanity.

🥇 1st Place Best Antagonist Winner of the 2022 Brine Awards 🥈2nd Place Sci-Fi Winner of the 2022 Writer Appreciation Awards 🥈 2nd Place Sci-Fi Winner of the 2022 Lotus Awards 🥈 2nd Place Sci-Fi Winner of the 2022 Phoenix Awards 🥉 3rd Place Sci-Fi Winner of the 2022 Brine Awards 🥈 2nd Place Best Epilogue of the 2022 Auctor Award 🥉 3rd Place Best Fight Winner of the 2022 Auctor Award ------------------------------ In 2056, SCOPE is a legendary virtual reality game played all over the world in underground arenas. One of these devoted gamers is Eniola Adeyemi, a clever San Francisco teen keeping her gaming career with her SCOPE team Rogue an enormous secret. When the chance comes to prove herself and her gaming career to her Nigerian parents and the gaming world, she leaps at the chance to go to Los Angeles to compete with her friends in the SCOPE Championships, a 10-day competition inside the massive and immersive VR universe. However, something deep lurks inside the SCOPE and the mysterious hacker and vigilant Paradox might be behind it. When they further investigate and get pulled deeper by new daunting discoveries, Eniola and her teammates are now reluctantly held down with a new challenge to fight and take them down.

Street fighting is just a small part of Tessa Wood's messed up life. She's got a haunting past and a little sister that she would do absolutely anything for. Her dad's just plain broken. He's one of those parents that gets drunk all the time and doesn't give a crap about his children. When new boy Alex moves next door to Tessa, it's not long before Tessa's life spirals out of control. Tessa's love life isn't a major priority for her until a confession from a friend shocks her. And as if Tessa doesn't already have enough to deal with, her ex, Xander, comes back. And let's just say that... He's not a very good person. Xander's back for one thing and, one thing only. Tessa. But Tessa's not going down without a fight. After all, She's A Fighter. ( Story is very badly written. Although my writing does improve towards the end. SO DON'T INSULT THIS BOOK WHEN I'VE ALREADY WARNED YOU. CHECK OUT MY OTHER BOOKS SINCE THEY'RE MUCHHH BETTER!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!)

"But in a solitary life, There are rare moments, When another soul dips near yours, As stars once a year brush the Earth. Such a constellation was he to me." - Madeline Miller ~~~ 19 year old Camilla Jackson is the most dazzling personality of Prime High, one of the most prestigious institutions of Atlanta, Georgia. Disciplined and industrious, her life goal of becoming an 'Accomplished Perfectionist', more like her parents' goal, has been concealing her inner deprivation; her freedom. And she has accepted that it'll always be this way. However, her life turns wild when she crosses paths with James Wallace, a smoldering man of the street. Thrown into a cursed world full of deadly fights for the fittest to survive, Camilla's life will never be the same, and neither will James's; not now that they've found something both lacked - the newly ignited fire that keeps on burning their trapped souls alive. (Previously known as 'Strayed') Copyright © Anika Prova, 2019.

"What are you going to do now?" I asked completely disheveled by the news she just confirmed. I stared at the small tray of drugs and pills that sat on her drawer, trying as much as I possibly could to distract myself. She looked too calm and at ease for someone going through this type of ailments. I on the other hand, was trying all that I could to not cry again infront of her. I haven't cried in freaking months, but through out today, I've been sobbing non-stop. "Nothing. There's really nothing I can do now". She smiled. I watched her calm resolve go down the drain as a single teardrop, streamed down her flushed cheeks. And just like that, I found myself crying for the fourth time today. **** Love, they say is one of the strongest forces on earth, and rightfully so. One is completely blinded and fooled by the intricacies of this vile feeling. The same feeling that has wholly engulfed me, but different in some way. The love I'd known all my life was from my family, a platonic or agape form of love, and even that came with it's share of hurt. The pain I felt when mum died was completely unimaginable, and deep. It felt like my soul was being injured, like my very being wasn't... complete anymore. It still isn't, but now it's so much worse. Why does life continually try to beat the crap out of me? Why show me a glimpse of hope when you know it won't last? Why drop someone as precious as Aurora into my life, then take her away?

What do I do with this week off...in hell this would have been a piece of cake being a demon and all. But on earth I don't know why people call a car an Uber and a taxi..aren't they they the same thing?? People on vacation party all night? Being an introvert kind of removes that from the list. I don't need to pick a struggle I have them all. What fun can a demon have in LAGOS NIGERIA? This is a real a question, it's not supposed to be dark and rhetorical. Arhhg fuck it

Schizophrenia (noun): a mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation. "Who are you?" I say, my voice almost a whisper. "No one." (niall horan au)