--- 2025 Update ✨--- This story has been completely rewritten and is now being published weekly ------------------------ It's really strange how there are some faces we see everyday and yet they don't really matter in our lives. They could be the girl you catch sight of regularly at your favorite coffee shop, the guy who sits next to you on train everyday or might just be someone who lives in the same town as you. You know their faces well but nothing much about them. This was the exact case for Norah Bishop when it came to Daniel Cohen. For her, Daniel was just some guy who had been her classmate for a very long time and whom the whole school worshiped but fate never gave her a chance to cross paths with him. But all of that was destined to change in just one night...

After escaping her past, Miranda finds herself in coastal Maine, and when she meets Owen, she must help him uncover what truly happened to his now-dead ex. ***** On the run from her abusive ex, Miranda Lewis figures a small town in coastal Maine is just the place for her to lay low. There she befriends Claire, the owner of a local cafe, and her son, Owen. A woodworker and musician, he keeps to himself, especially since the town believes he played a part in the disappearance of the town's pride and joy... a skilled artist and his former girlfriend. As the two begin to grow closer, Miranda agrees to help him uncover the truth behind what really happened, especially now that strange things are occurring again, leading all roads back to Owen. [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]] Cover designed by Simone Northey

The idea of the Matching Ceremony. An event where 20 girls were chosen by each clan leader to be partners for life. For Daisy, the mere idea of being matched to someone you barely know came to her as the worst thing that could ever happen. So picture what happens when she is chosen and her match is actually the man she was fated to be with.

Leah's dreams of a happy forever with her boyfriend come crashing down when he leaves her to pursue his education far away from the school she just committed to. She is still holding on to hope that he will realize his big mistake. She may have a broken heart, but she still believes in love and forever. Noah has spent the last three years of college studying the dissolution of couples for his doctorate thesis. He knows that love does not last forever and hopes to prove when couples stop touching, they also stop loving. His studies have taught him it is better to have a few nights of fun than to try to capture forever. When Leah moves in next door to Noah, the two of them begin to wonder if maybe they have been jaded by their pasts. Can Leah and Noah beat the odds and find their forever with each tender touch?

"'Caution. Hotness at work. May spontaneously combust.' I read Ross' neon shirt with something akin to disgust, brushing back my hair and shooting him a glare. 'Really? Really, Ross? I hope you realize that no one's going to find you attractive when you're picking up trash from the ground with a stick.'" When Ross Alderman literally blows up Jenn's AP Chemistry class, the two of them find themselves stuck with thirty hours of community service. Now if only Jenn can last that long picking up trash with him without combusting from anger, no chemistry humor intended. (current cover by @Razeeta)

Violet Thompson had high expectations about moving from the UK to the USA. She thought her loving boyfriend would become less clingy, that her overbearing mother would become less controlling and she definitely thought that American life would be a doddle. Turns out, that having space doesn't always mean that you can't still feel suffocated, living on a different continent doesn't necessarily mean you're out of reach from being controlled and the American life was far from easy. Well, the American life could've been easy. If it wasn't for the tanned, toned and tattooed hunk that kept appearing in her life. But if she admitted it to herself, he'd had her hooked since she heard The Accent. WARNING: strong language and some sexual references ©TilliCollapsed

Eden White was a successful business woman living in Los Angeles, she had great friends and family surrounding her. Her personal life however was the pits and she had sworn off men for the foreseeable future. Until one drunken night with her friends, she stumbles, literally, into a tattoo shop downtown demanding to be tattooed. Mitchell Stone was the most unlikely person to help Eden out on that fateful night. Thus beginning the tumultuous and sexy as hell liaison with a bad boy that she didn't want, yet couldn't get enough of.

Kayla Mays knows first hand what it's like loving the wrong guy. All her life she's loved the one person who could never love her back. She was the girl who could bag any boy she wanted. She was the Wild One. Now in a place where her perfect sisters image can't touch her, Kayla decides to live the life she always wanted. When she thinks she might have found The One, the guy who she currently calls her boyfriend, everything seems to fall into place. That is until a someone from the past makes their way into her future. Sterling Parker is a changed man. From the untouchable good boy who was her best friends love, to a part time cop who's body is harder than his personality. Sterling is the one thing she never saw coming. She knew then he wasn't hers to have and he still isn't. But why is it that when the tough as stone cop asks to hide out in her apartment does she agree? And why, after all these years, does she still want the one thing he couldn't give her before? Through love, hate, lies, and trust, you will learn what happens when two people are thrown together and pleasure and passion become the one thing they can't deny. He's her guilty pleasure and for Kayla, being bad has never felt so good.

"She was drowning. Drowning in the liquid pools of his blue eyes. Her other senses were long forgotten as the earth faded away around her" Aria Reese's eighteenth birthday had already come and gone and she was still without a mate. And except for the side effects she hadn't really minded. After all she'd been a product and a witness to the loveless bonding of her own parents, who in her mind were Exhibit A to forget mating all together. But when Aria meets the infamous Lucas Black she can't help but be infatuated. At least that's what she told herself. However as unexplained things happen one after another and Aria learns more about who she really is, and why people want her, she'll need more than a friend or confidant, she'll need a mate.