*** Just a few intro chapters - full book available on Amazon, or you can read the original version for free on Wattpad *** Pay your stake. Roll the dice. Do the dare. Getting divorced at twenty-five sucks. Teaching over-confident rich kids when you ought to be designing handbags for Mulberry sucks. In fact, every single aspect of Daisy Fitzgerald's life is one big fail. But when Xander, a veritable Knight-in-Shining-Cricket-Pads, knocks her off her wedge heels, Daisy topples into his world of It-girls, players and Michelin stars. At a party, buoyed up on champagne and escapism, Daisy agrees to play Forfeit, the ultimate game of dares. Round One was a fun way to pass an hour, Round Two wasn't for the faint-hearted, but no one wants to stake £5,000 to play Round Three, not until they're persuaded by a vitriolic social media campaign that's about to go viral. £25,000 is up for grabs, but the game's called Forfeit for good reason. Blackmail, betrayal, revenge... move over Gatsby, there's a new bunch of bored young things in town. *** Caution. Forfeit's rated at PG-13, but it does contain strong language and scenes of a sexual nature. Just sayin'. Cx *** Being open and honest, I'll only be posting the first 30% or so of #Forfeit here. If you like it and want to read the rest, it's available on Kindle. It won't break the bank - 77p, 99c are the launch prices and the Kindle App is free! Keep posted for chances to win signed copies and Kindle freebies. If you feel cheated that you can't read it all for free, the first/ original draft of Forfeit is still on here. It's posted as a book in its own right, but it's also at the end of the new #Forfeit chapters in this version. Thanks for reading. Cx

This is not another lame or generic 'romance novel' about finding love and living in blissful harmony. Not everything goes smoothly. Not everyone lives 'happily ever after' here. Not everyone even lives to the end. This isn't fiction; this is reality. This is a TRUE story following me going to college and facing the problems that come with finding one's identity, trying to learn how to love, and how to care in a world that really doesn't. Have you ever met someone who's just socially awkward, weird, and confuses the crap out of you? I do every time I look in the mirror. Maybe I'm not normal. And why would I want to be anyway when being 'normal' these days often requires you to fake so much just to fit in? If you think you have trouble with relationships, social interactions, expressing emotions, and making friends, well then you haven't met me. Sometimes I feel like a really bad combination of the emotionless Spock from Star Trek, Sheldon, the most compulsively dysfunctional character from Big Bang Theory, and Dexter, a dark minded sociopath... But if you've ever doubted yourself, found love and failed to protect it, lost hope, or been discouraged by the general apathy of the brain-dead world around you, you're not the only one. They say 'ignorance is bliss' and they seem to be right sometimes. The more you understand about the world, the more you see how messed up it is underneath all that glamor and superficial pomposity. I'm being sort of melodramatic here, but it's true. "Is the modern concept of love dead?" This TRUE story includes many sensitive topics including: murder, sexual assault, drugs, suicide, health disorders, and other obstacles we all must encounter growing up. As both a character in the story and the author, I hope to make it engaging, and maybe even humorous in a twisted sort of way. But it's your own choice to read this tragic, if not insightful, story of my life in college.

This is the story of my past year. For all those going through a tough time, this might just be the story for you. It involves eating disorder, Sexual assault, PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Love, Heart break, all the ups and downs that can come with your freshman year of college.

Okie's fifteen. She lives in New York. She's got a few problems: she's failing geography, her dad's a wimp, and her mother, Sumatra, is a stone cold bitch. But things get a lot worse when Sumatra turns into a zombie and eats Okie's dad. Clio, Okie's grandmother, lives in Toronto; but since the zombie apocalypse, Toronto's a lot further away than it used to be. Clio suggests that Okie transport Sumatra across the border, because family is family. But coaching Okie by cellphone isn't easy, and Clio has some zombies of her own to contend with. Luckily she has some garden tools. Naomi Alderman and Margaret Atwood team up for this unusual two-hander. Encompassing love, death, sex, and the meaning of family, The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home will surprise, delight, and convince you of the vital importance of keeping ready supplies of rhubarb and mini-wieners in your freezer at all times. The story unfolds beginning October 24.