[ A WATTPAD FEATURED STORY ] → #2 in Teen Fiction ••• ❝You're frowning,❞ he murmured, tapping his forefinger on one corner of her mouth. ❝I hate it when you frown. It makes me want to tear to pieces whatever has upset you.❞ ❝Then tear down that armour, Asa,❞ she told him, leaning her face into his palm because it was starting to feel like home and it terrified her, but also brought her peace. ❝Tear away that outer skin and wear the one you were born with like its gold, because it is.❞ She brought up her free hand to cover his one that was holding her face. ❝Because right now, that is what's upsetting me.❞ ••• In which Asa San Román, popular swimming champion of Reichenbach High, is afraid his looks are all that he'll be liked for... but then meets Carmen West, the girl with midnight hair and thundercloud eyes, who reminds him that beauty is soul-deep instead. ••• **Please note that only half the book is currently available on Wattpad. Chapter 39 onwards is unpublished due to copyright reasons now that TYE is an officially published paperback & ebook**

The year is 1879. When thirteen-year-old Ruth Merritt Holbrook emerges from her family's burning estate, bloody and charred, but entirely numb--She makes headlines. Reporters believe she is deranged. They accuse her of having set the fire. All the headlines read: "UNSUSPECTING FAMILY SLAIN BY DERANGED DAUGHTER." Everyone believes it. How else could a highbred girl exit a burning building, injured yet senseless? Why did she not scream or cry? The police tell her she is a killer. The doctors tell her she is mad. The nuns at St. Agatha's tell her she is possessed. Perhaps, Ruth Merritt Holbrook is all of those things-or perhaps she is much more. Mysterious and Paranormal. Romance. More than meets the eye. ******* Sgt. Barton Rucklesbee September 13, 1882 The following is an account sent to our office on the first of this month. The whereabouts of those listed in this document are currently unknown. Case Notes: Personally, I don't believe a word of this. It seems like a child's story to me. Best not to be taken too seriously. Read at your own folly as it is quite the elaborate tale and you may find yourself wasting the entirety of a day on it. Sgt. Barton Rucklesbee ******* Senseless: The Unnatural Case Of Miss Merritt Holbrook ******* Author's note: This is a novel I wrote for my undergraduate thesis. I studied the Victorian era/ genre and wrote a novel in the styles of "Dracula" and Leanna Renee Hieber's "Darker Still." There are a lot of sections but they are all fairly short. Also, it may not be perfectly edited. To the wonderful grammar wizards out there, don't worry about it. Just sit back and enjoy the story and characters, I'll deal with the grammar later. Thanks for reading! Enjoy. :) First Posted: August 31, 2018 {On the Wattpad featured list 9/20/18}

Sang Sorensen is a bright and talented seventeen year old ballerina who has finally had enough. She's barely survived the last year at Ashley Waters High, and when the abuse, both at school and at home, comes to a head, she does the only thing she can think of...she runs. *This is a Ghost Bird fan fiction based on the characters created by C.L. Stone. After the first bit, the story is purely from my imagination. ******Author's Note~PLEASE READ****** There are a few scenes of a graphic nature in this book, so please be aware that some of the things I write about may make you uncomfortable. Thank you. There may be triggers in this story for you, but I dishonor the struggle to overcome if I gloss them over.

Putting the hell of her past behind her, Sang lives in a crappy, one-bedroom apartment above a pizza front in some small, backwaters town located in Illinois. She's been off the grid for years, living a peaceful existence working as a waitress at a dingy diner. Until she comes home and finds two crying babies on her doorstep along with a note from the last person she'd expect to hear from. Without much choice and a conscious that wouldn't allow her to abandon the two bundles, Sang moves to Charleston, SC looking for a fresh start. But can she handle the struggles of being a single mom? Especially when a couple of guys from the Academy get involved? The Toma team become intrigued by the mysterious, young woman who just moved into the Sergeant Jasper along with her two-year-old twin sons. She's skittish, wary, and avoids social interactions like the plague. But they can't deny the need to help her that fuels through their Academy blood. When her background check comes up empty, however, questions are raised and they begin wondering, just who is Sang Sorenson? And what happens when the Blackbourne team get involved? Confirmed HEARH with all fourteen. Toma team/Sang/Blackbourne team. This will NOT have any slash between any of the guys in the harem. This is a fanfiction based on character's from CL Stone's Ghost Bird + Scarab Beetle Academy series.