When stickball champion, Slade Locklear, is denied financial help from his college to take his team to the World Series Stickball Games, he must ask his reluctant ex-best friend, Makaiyah Henderson, to help him fundraise enough money to go to the championship. *** Slade Locklear is Oklahoma's reigning stickball champion, and his team is closer than ever to competing in the World Series Stickball Games. There's just one problem-without funding, they're not going anywhere. After his college dean turns him down, Slade is forced to seek help from the one person he never thought he'd have to face again. Makaiyah Henderson. His childhood best friend. Makaiyah has always carried the weight of the world on her shoulders. Brilliant, driven, and fiercely protective of her Afro-Indigenous roots, she's dedicated her life to uplifting her community and fighting for representation in a world that never allowed for it. Helping a former stickball star who once broke her trust was never part of the plan. But when the opportunity arises to raise funds for the stickball team after her college denies them, Makaiyah agrees. Reluctantly. Through three fundraising events, Slade and Makaiyah are forced back into each other's lives. Working side by side reignites more than old memories, but unresolved wounds don't disappear just because feelings resurface. As the championship draws closer and the pressure mounts, they'll have to decide whether they can rebuild what was broken between them, or let the truth about their past cost them everything they've worked for.

What do a spoiled daughter of a corrupt politician and a modern-day female pirate have in common? Aside from a thirst for danger and a hunger for sex, that is. *** Piper Price wants nothing more than to get far, far away from her controlling father, a powerful US politician. Her entire life, she's been forced to pose as his perfect daughter, but when she flees to the south of France after a rough break-up an opportunity for escape presents itself in the most surprising of ways. Odette Garnier is a modern day pirate on a mission: abduct the spoiled daughter of a corrupt politician and ransom her back to him as part of a plan to take him down for good. What she didn't plan on was finding Piper so attractive that she engages in a steamy one night stand beforehand. What she never expected was for Piper to be thrilled by the kidnapping and ready for another go around. With the captain declaring them off-limits to each other and Piper's father being trickier than they expected, Odette and Piper will have to navigate the increasingly dangerous situation...and their growing feelings for each other.

Hockey player extraordinaire Cameron Beckett not only has to deal with the pressures of making it into the NHL and graduating high school, but also figuring out his feelings for the boy next door. ***** Cameron Beckett is the ace and co-captain of his hockey team, but he's failing his math class so badly that his coach threatens to bench him if he doesn't improve his grades. He turns to Sam, his neighbor, only to start developing feelings for him that he's not ready to confront. Cameron pulls away, afraid that his sexuality will cost him any chance of being drafted into the NHL. But when Sam needs him the most, Cameron can't be there for him, making him question whether his fear of coming out is actually holding him back.

Sometimes we're all too drenched in our own problems to realize others are drowning, too.

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. You have to step off the trail to find your path . . . When her mother unceremoniously dumps her at Camp Mapplewood for the summer, Emma Lane's hopes of repairing their fractured relationship are gone with the wind. Now she's stuck in the wilderness facing her worst fears. Trees? Terrifying. Spiders? Even worse. And don't even get Emma started on how she feels about camp activities. But Emma's got a plan, and she will do anything in her power to get kicked out of camp, from sleeping in to playing practical jokes on her fellow campers. Yet when Emma draws the attention of her illusive and attractive camp counselor Vivian Black, she has to come to terms with the fact that how her summer starts isn't necessarily how it might end. Will Vivian be the key to unlocking Emma's fears once and for all?

After years of training to take over her father's position as Alpha of the Moonshine pack, Rayne Leighann Vance is put to the ultimate test when she agrees to take their nemesis, Jarrah Pinestone, King of the Fae, to find a hidden elixir that will destroy the rebel vampire clan once and for all. Season 1 of The Lost Elixir ****** Rayne, who is next in line to be alpha, is willing to do whatever it takes to protect her people from the wrath of an ancient vampire lord that seeks to wipe out the fae and werewolf population forever. One morning after training, Rayne is surprised by her father's recent capture, the King of Fae, whom is more than reluctant to help them. When Rayne learns of the famous elixir that can defeat the vampire lord, she forces her father to let her and the King of Fae go in search of their last hope. Along the way to salvation, Rayne is tested in more ways than one. Can she find the elixir? Will she make it back in time before the war breaks out? And most importantly, will she be able to choose her duty to her people over her heart if they win the war?

My Works #16 //. "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, but in this case it just may kill you." Kielce is ready to seal the door to his past closed while Amos is ready to open the door to his future. Coming from the same place, they're both striving to prove against being statistics, but parts of the hood continues to weigh them down figuratively like a ball and chain. DIAMONDNOVELS©2017-22 all copyrights reserved

For Sam Ahmed, it's ten nights in the country that broke her heart. For Haris Shah, it's ten nights to show Sam how beautiful her country can truly be. copyright © lena adams 2020 cover by soundthealarm

The past has come back to haunt Brock Mason. He had thought that the dissolution of their band two years earlier would have been enough to keep his ex-best friend out of his life forever, but Trace Strickland isn't fading away quietly from the bright city lights. As Trace catapults back into media stardom, spreading rumours scandalous enough to destroy Brock's already rocky solo career, Brock knows that he needs to act fast to salvage his image before it's irreparably damaged. When his recording contract is sold to a new label, Brock must face the music when his only saviour is someone who might want nothing to do with him. Travis Grant is at a standstill. With those around him beginning to move on to bigger and better things, Travis wonders if competing on the rodeo circuit and ranching cattle is all that he's truly destined for. But when famed country singer Brock Mason arrives in Travis' small town, seeking the help of Travis' superstar younger sister, Travis inexplicably finds himself drawn into the world of celebrity that he's always so steadfastly avoided. As Travis and Brock grow steadily closer, Travis begins a journey down a path that will alter his future forever as he grapples with accepting who he is versus who he is meant to be. **Note: due to life insanity, this book is being updated VERY slowly. DelaneyBrenna still intends to finish this book and appreciates the patience of her readers as she works to complete the remaining chapters** Cover designed by the incredible: @WonderfulMiracles

Meet Milyon Washington. She's currently 18 and a senior in high school. Milyon don't have nobody but her cousin Quinton aka Quinn who's very known in the streets for being a successful hitman. He never misses a target. Even though he puts in work throughout the day and night, he still doesn't make enough money to take care of them. Milyon decides to take things in her own hands and starts stripping in the most known night club in her city, "Sincere Night". Every thing was going smoothly. Quinton believed Milyon was working at a regular high paying job, but what happens when one night the club he shoots up, is the club Milyon works in? What happens when Quinton finally fail to kill his target? What happens when his target ends up saving Milyon, clueless of who she's related too. Finally, what happens when the target turns out to be the notorious Karter Montgomery, future head of a big drug dealing cartel. Want the answers? Just read and find out.