Clea Walther was not an ordinary eighteen-year-old girl. She was different, and her life had never been perfect. Her only brother, Luca, thrives to protect her from the ordinary crash courses of life. When detective Scott Lancaster, a small town detective, knocks on their door early Wednesday morning, everything turns to dust when they arrest Luca for the murder of Clea's previous adoptive family in San Diego. Clea is broken as her only family is taken away from her. She turns to Luca's best friend, Ryan, for help, only to find him "missing." Will Clea find Ryan in time and rescue her brother? Or are the murders more twisted than she thought?

#1 Teen Fiction | #1 Young Adult | #1 Romance "We all need someone to drive us mad." - The Wombats. He stared arrogantly down at me, a smirk plastered across his face. I sneered up at him with distaste, wanting to wrap my fingers around his neck and strangle that smirk off of him. He brushed my golden hair from my face, his long, slender fingers sparking electricity in my skin, making my knees wobble together. "Will you ever, forgive me?" he whispered huskily, his eyes intently staring into mine. His face was only mere inches from me. I just needed to reach out a little further to kiss him... "Yeah. Over my dead body." I snapped, before throwing my arms out forcefully, shoving my hands into his chest, pushing him from me. -*-*-*- He, is Carter Williams. I, am Lacey Adams. We were once, inseparable. The 'Golden Couple'. The unbreakable best friends, that everybody envied. Nothing could get between us. A part from being tighter than white on rice, we updated our status from friends to being in a relationship, frequently. We were neighbours, which meant our families were all close and even co-owned houses around our town. This, all is, until the day of my sixteenth birthday. Everything changed. The loving relationship we shared, was severed and torn apart. I couldn't hardly stand to look at him any more, without spitting fire that is. Every day is torture being around him. He was in all my classes at school and the window in my room was even directly aligned with his. So, what happens? My mother's mum gets sick, so dad and her fly out. Just them. Leaving me to stay with Carter and his parents, who are never home. We would be alone. In one house. Under the same roof. If I was insane before, I have no idea what I am now. © 2016 by LaurenJ22. All rights reserved.

Auburn has a great life... A wonderful family, a promising future, a cute guy she likes seems interested... And a big secret. She's a mermaid. Her sister keeps begging her to help her make the change to become one but with her own secret threatening her relationships, how can she burden her sweet sister like that? Besides, Mom and Dad won't let her anyways. Auburn knows how to follow her heart but can she learn to bring her brain with her?

Emily Gilmore is an "ORDINARY" 16 year old girl who had a carefree life. She's never had a boyfriend or even sneaked out of her house late at night. Everything seems to be quite normal until she is sent to spend her entire summer vacation with her annoying cousins and maybe stay there for the rest of her LIFE! When things seem to turn back to normal, everything starts turning weird. She finds a conch laying near the seashore and meets a boy named, Dominic Petersen. Will her life begin to look up since she has a guy friend? Will she begin to enjoy her new life without her parents? Maybe this is fate or the beginning of a nightmare?