Giselle isn't your average teenage girl. Besides the fact that she's hot headed and argumentative she also can control fire. When she's captured and taken to a special school by the name of Gifted Academy, Giselle Riley doesn't know what to expect. All she knows is that the last thing she wants is to be among people with special gifts such as speed, earth bending and telepathy. That is until the moment she realizes shes one of them. Through challenging struggles and suspense Giselle tries to figure out who she really is and who shes destined to be. Through falling in love, making new friends and destroying dark forces will Giselle finally find out who she really is or is there something more shes been needing to find out all along?

The decade: Early 1950s, perhaps late 1940s. The setting: A small city, somewhere outside New York City. There lives a single mother and her daughter. Like most mothers, she would sacrifice anything to keep her child safe, happy, healthy. It's a little late. She loves her more than life itself. That's what takes her down when unfortunately, a sunny day with ice cream turns into... a sunny day with splattered ice cream, splattered guts, and her daughter's death. Oh and I forgot to mention, splattered hearts. At her funeral, a stranger approaches her. Someone uninvited whom she can't seem to recall. He has a knack at reading people, knowing what they're about to say before they do and knowing what they choose not to say, their secrets. He's a guest at the present, however she can't tell how long he's been at the party, and how long he's here to stay.

Elena Lupin and Rae Black are in their fifth year of Hogwarts. As if their OWL year wasn't stressful enough, Rae is dealing with her father's escape from prison and Lena has all sorts of boy troubles. With Lena being caught between two boys, Rae starts to feel as if she's being pushed to the side, but with secrets about their family beginning to surface, both girls have to find a way to be there for each other... Just in case no one else will be.

Welcome to Undiscovered Gems Competition (UGC)! I love to help writers get a second hand view of their work. I feel that there is so much published work on Wattpad that deserves to be acknowledged but people a) Don't have the time b) Don't read new books with low reads or c) Can't find them. I've read so many undiscovered books here and I usually comment on how to improve and what is done well. I know that new stories may not be continued or people may not have confidence in themselves and sometimes I feel my comments go unnoticed. Therefore, I would have made a competition where undiscovered writers get a chance to be acknowledged through 'The Undiscovered Gems Competition' and get some feedback that they, themselves, are looking for. Good luck and enjoy! xXPersevereXx

"You see a massive, impenetrable wall surrounding your paradise. All I see is a crumbling mass of steel and insecurities thrown over some foul lies." -- Rayne Byrin has everything going exactly the way he wants it to. He lives in the town of Paramino. A city that uses its technology advances and years of research to better the community in many ways. Rayne is known for his extreme intellect and has received the job offer of his dream before he even graduates from school. His life is so comfortably mundane that he believes it will stay that way forever. Right? Wrong. On one particular day the very thing that will turn his life upside-down and inside-out escapes from a high security prison. Cecil, a mysterious, smart mouthed, egotistical convict that just wants to leave the city. This walking disaster somehow wanders into Rayne's life and begins to unravel his seemingly perfect life one strand at a time. Cecil tells Rayne that the city isn't all that he thinks it is, Rayne begins having doubts as well. He ends up aiding the escapee to his freedom, well aware of what could happen to him and his normal life. One thing is for sure, after that night, Rayne's world will never be the same again. __ This is my first real attempt at writing so please please please give me any advice, critique, and ideas you have. I need all I can get! Thank you all so much and happy reading!