***Jan 2016 - The Budding Roses has been selected as one of the TOP 10 ONE DIRECTION FANFICTIONS worth reading by Sugarscape! http://www.sugarscape.com/bookclub/news/a1085541/10-one-direction-fanfics-worth-reading-january/ *** Currently appearing on the Wattpad Fan fiction Featured List and selected for Wattpad's 'Back to school YA' Reading List. Set amidst a chaos of hilarity in 1990's Brighouse, West Yorkshire, The Budding Roses is a classic Young Adult coming of age novel which follows the anxious voice of teenager, Simone Rose, and her descent in to panic, as she struggles to cope with the all-consuming occupation of lusting after boys and the emotional exhaustion of never being able to find the right one. As Baywatch plays on the television Simone has just vomited for the twelfth time, which as she has established has to be God's secret punishment for her recent transgression with the loathsome Harry Styles. At least she has Baywatch to maintain her spirits during illness, and it is from her sick bed that she falls in love for the first time with tanned, floppy haired Adonis, life guard Eddie Kramer. Powered back to health by her emerging amour, Simone soon realises that the coal blackened streets of Brighouse offer just as many hotties as the far flung beaches of Southern California. If only best friend, precocious know it all, Natasha could share her romantic sensibilities instead of chasing after Harry and his stupid football or worse still High School's newest hero, Liam Payne. Why can't such losers bog off and stop embarrassing her with their immaturities? Unfortunately for Simone, such luck is not to be hers.

Elle Grey doesn't need anyone. She only needs herself, a paintbrush, and if she gets desperate enough, there are the few people she actually tolerates that she can talk to. She knows that there's more out there in the world - in fact, she spends most of her time either daydreaming or painting about it. She knows that the South Dakotan town she's grown up in is only suffocating her. That's why she finds Harry so intriguing. He's different and he brings out something in her that she wasn't sure was still there. Suddenly she's second-guessing everything she has known her entire life - maybe she does need someone.

New York. New start. Away from the constant torment left behind at what used to be a home. Lana Payne packs her troubles away in order to pick up a new life with her older brother, Liam in New York where, hopefully, the drama that is her life can finally calm. Little did she know all she was doing was coming to new place to find a new kind of drama. The kind of drama that has green eyes and a beating heart. The kind of drama that lingers in your mind no matter where you go. In Lana's desperate bid to find a place she can call her home she stumbles upon, not a place, but a person she'd rather call home. Harry Styles. With his mysterious mannerisms, callused hands and leather bound journals he's hard to froget. But what will happen when fate intervenes and Lana's new found home begins to crumble? Their relationship will fall only to balance on three simple words uttered upon tear stained cheeks, "Make me stay."

This is NOT a sequel to Grey Street, only bits and pieces of their story after that day in the café. I'd highly suggest reading Grey Street first. What happens when Harry becomes the missing piece of Elle's New York story.

Currently listed on Wattpad's 'Summertime Stories' Reading List Emma thought the Corfu sun would bring her a great tan and relaxation during her Gap Year before starting Medical School. But working the package holiday conveyor belt as one of Select Holidays Representative’s is proving more heat stroke and headache than an endless working vacation. With no friends except for her roommate Katie and Dave the Head Rep, Emma is ready to abandon the lingering sweat and mosquitoes and hand in her notice, until a trip to the Doctors introduces her to final year medic Liam. And why does the barman at Zorb’s bar keep staring at her all the time? Will Emma stay to find out?