Wren Martin is socially awkward. She blocks off herself to the world, hiding behind her favorite hoodie. All she wants to do is keep a low profile, and graduate well enough to qualify for a college scholarship. But then a babysitting job leads her to cross paths with Asher Reed, Eastview Highʼs notorious athlete. When a field injury kickstarts his senior year, heʼs turning his free time and attention to Wren. And maybe she might not want to be invisible after all. ***** [Watty's Collector's Edition Winner] [TFA Runaway Prize Winner] [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Santoro

poetry by a person that's afraid of people. 12/23/15- #1 in poetry

Finding evidence of her dead brother's whereabouts, Katherine Donovan believes that he is still alive. In pursuit to find her brother and restore her family's remaining happiness, she encounters the infamous and godforsakenly alluring Russian bastard Vitaly Alecovich Rostov and gets ensnared in his plan of capturing her brother. In order to attain his goal, he offers her a deal. However, the deeper she dives into the tangles of Vitaly's merciless world, she finds herself in a hauntingly familiar past. A past that she has been erased from- a past that she cannot she escape. Unsetting secrets loom the air of her maddening relationship with Vitaly. The question is; will she run from him? Or to him?

Peace between the packs is in jeopardy, a wicked man raises to power and threatens the balance of order. Isabella, a young artist and a former orphan seeks for her future, whichever it may be. But she isn't certain of what road to take, there was still something missing, nor does she know what is in her blood. All she is certain of, is that the forest calls to her. That somewhere in its expanse. She can finally find answers. The Northern pack, once closest friends and allies of the Easterners, seeks the truth of the mysterious death of the Eastern Alpha. Major, soldier and the third in command of the Northern Pack. Tasked to find the true chosen mate of Alpha Lawrence, and possibly the true heir of the pack. The trail was cold, but he was the best of the trackers in the four kingdoms. He will find them, he has to. The fates work in mysterious ways, he finds her in the most surprising circumstance. Just in the nick of time to save her life, and quite possibly loosing his heart in the process. But she was a human. ➳ ➳ ➳ -originally written the summer of 2014, and completed early 2018. He Who Holds the Crown © 2021, BellewithaJ | Mary Jobbele

I watched Reese lips move as he read out the contents of the letter, then I watched everyone's faces as they took in the words that were coming off the paper. As I looked around the small group, I realized that these were the people that I had no choice but to depend on for awhile, and one of them was going to get hurt. It didn't matter if we did everything right, someone was bound to get hurt in this game and I couldn't help but to feel like it would be all my fault.