From Samantha Young's bestselling YA urban fantasy series 'Fire Spirits' - a scene from book one from the hero Jai Bitar's point of view.

~*~Amaranthine, meaning eternally beautiful and unfading; everlasting.~*~ All Rileigh Mason wanted when her mother moved her to Sky River, North Dakota was to finish her senior year, head off to college and start her own life. All that changed the moment she spotted mysterious Liam O'Conner - in her back yard of all places. The only thing is, she is the only one who can see him. Going on with her "normal" teenage life of dating, school and dances proves difficult when Liam tends to show up during the worst of times - her date with the school's Quarterback, history class or at her friend Stacy's homecoming party. But it's not long before Liam's mysterious, charming, and somewhat cocky personality draws Rileigh in. Will she be able to unlock the secrets of Liam's past in time to save him, while risking her own life in the process? Or will she lose him forever? March 19 2015 -> Amaranthine is currently being edited, the changes will be uploaded when ALL completed chapters have been edited and the book is complete. I hope to have that done before summer starts *fingers crossed*

Harrison Kringe loses more than his wife when she suddenly dies after giving birth; he loses his mind. He blames his newborn baby girl for his devastating loss. She will pay the price for his insanity. Taught from birth to know only unimaginable horror, Harrison creates a monster. Can he control his creation, or will he become a victim of 'Daddy's Little Girl'?

Annabelle first met Eric at his party. She first kissed him during a game at the party. Now? She owes him. Melissa is Anna's little sister, hurt and broken from her boyfriend's betrayal. When Melissa refuses to give "it" up he gets mad. Breaking up with her he spreads rumors around school of her being a slut. Becoming the new school slut has broken her spirit until she can barely make it through the day. Anna's father is a single Dad and she has spent her entire life looking after Melissa, now that she is nearly broken, Anna will do anything to make her better. When Melissa is suspended from getting in a fight, Anna doesn't know what to do. Melissa can't be homeschooled because there is no one to do it and she can't keep going on like this. That's where Eric comes in. He has a proprosition for her. Do what he says for 6 months and he'll get his little brother to get her unsuspended and to protect her for her remaining years of high school. Anna agrees. Will Anna and Eric always be at odds, or at the end of the six months will they never want to be apart again?

When Cassie Taylor talks, ghosts listen. She wants to heal their souls so they can leave earth. Brooding songwriter Luke Rivers wants to give his recently found daughter a normal home, but he discovers his new house in small town Wisconsin is haunted by a ghost with an attitude. His ghost whisperer has an attitude too—even before someone tries to kill her. He wants conventional; she wants acceptance. No wonder she thinks men are hard and dead people are easy. FROM EDIE: The entire book was posted here. I left it up for over a week, then deleted everything except for the first ten chapters. I appreciate all the great comments, the votes and the fans. Wattpadders are the best! If you missed reading Dead People here, it's available most online bookstores right now. (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.) You can find out more here: http://edieramer.com/books/dead-people/

A girl with a broken past and a dark secret. A boy with a twisted future and no second chances. When they meet, it just might cost them their souls. Sixteen-year-old Summer doesn't expect the new boarding school to be any different than the rest: a temporary stay where everyone will turn against her after a few weeks. Until she meets the rest of the students at this special school and realizes she's not the only one with magic in her blood. Accustomed to the concrete jungle of LA, she gets lost one night in the forests of the Rocky Mountains and meets Decker, the boy who will become the Master of Night and Fire on his eighteenth birthday. Their connection is instant and dangerous, for both will be forced to choose between Light and Dark, life and death, love - and their souls. One choice. One soul. One price.

[NOTE: This book was written in 2010, a time of long-distance phone cards, weight-loss obsessions, and searching for a man as a solution to life's problems-what a messy time to be alive! In other words, I hope you enjoy this throwback, and while this book does end on a cliffhanger of sorts, the sequel addresses any unanswered questions (which is hopefully fair, given that book 1 is free, ya know?] An awkward family homecoming at Christmas. A humiliating public weigh-in, with two judging parents as the audience. The announcement of a deadline for arranged marriage doom. And that's just the first two chapters. In "Year of the Chick," Romi Narindra must find love before her parents find her a husband. Easy to say, less easy to live through, as this book takes you deep inside "awkward Indian living in the West." To escape her fate, Romi wades through the waters of secret-dating, where self-consciousness is at an all-time high, and experience at an all-time low. It's the sort of thing that would turn almost anyone into a man-crazy freak with romance tunnel-vision, and that's exactly what ends up happening. All the while, a lack of inspiration in her corporate job leads Romi to her love of writing, in what quickly becomes a man-quest play-by-play. From whiskey-breath scum bags to uni-brow creeps and everything in between, Romi and her wingmen come up empty time after time. And that's when she meets a fellow writer. On the Internet. So will it be arranged marriage doom, or an Internet affair that's not as creepy as "To Catch a Predator"? Time will tell in the "year of the chick," a twelve-month quest to find love. Tick-tock. --------------------------------------------- "Year of the Chick" is book one of a series, and book two is available at Amazon! LENGTH: 75,000 words or 285 pages DISCLAIMER: this book contains profanities, blunt accounts of the dating scene, and many awkward family moments. Enjoy!

Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer and an even better singer, she is the perfect lover for any man. Perfect, that is, except for her personality - the one thing you can't engineer.