***Winner of the Wattys 2015 Urban Award (THANK YOU, READERS! MWAH) *** "Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power." -Oscar Wilde When notorious drug lord Aiden Michaels' troublesome younger brother Keegan goes missing, word on the street is that a hit was put out on him by the head of the of The Syndicate, Vincent Lockewood. Not one to be tampered with, Aiden decides to hit back even harder by kidnapping Vince's beautiful daughter, Ava-Marie, threatening to torture and kill her in three days unless Vince delivers his brother and a ransom of twenty million pounds, but something sparks between the captor and his captive that compromises everything. A/N: THIS STORY EXPLORES SOME ADULT THEMES SO WATTPAD HAVE MADE SOME CHAPTERS PRIVATE. IN ORDER TO READ IT IN ITS ENTIRETY FOLLOW ME AND ADD RUNNING WILDE TO YOUR LIBRARY. Enjoy x

Money can't always buy Rose happiness, but what if being poor could?

One day, Zonnique goes to a wild spring break party. The next day, she wakes up inside of a mental home. Her parents rule her "suicidal", placing her into a home for patients in need. But these patients are crazier than she thought. One by one, she is forced to face and deal with what these nurses call "people". However, what will happen when she's forced to face these facts? Will she become one of them, or will she stick to her MENTALITY?

"Being a sex therapist ain't all it's cracked up to be. Business is business." - Dr. August.

One minute, me and my peers at my school were flying out to a hot and sunny vacation in Aruba. In a blink of an eye, we're on an island. 10 girls with no help, guidance, cell phones, etc. We had to figure out how we were going to eat, fight through diseases, and most importantly, get help. I'm Sierra Ellison, and this is my story on how I survived Flight 89.

Chauncey and Tina have been best friends since freshman year of high school. Ever since then, they've been a dynamic duo, and that's not for the better. They're the top-notch assholes. For all four years, they've been bullying people their age they feel are beneath them, don't fit the "popular" crowd, or for one other thing that they can't stand the most. Gay people. Chauncey hates men who are gay or homosexual, while Tina hates women who are gay or homosexual as well. Another thing the two are, are SEXIST. Chauncey plans to have a wife that will cook, clean, and take care of him and his future kids, and Tina plans to become a trophy wife to a rich man that'll take care of her and her future children. But after a day of church, what happens when the two switch bodies? After realizing that they're in the other persons body and realizing that no one will believe it, Chauncey and Tina have no choice but to adapt to having a life as the opposite sex. Chauncey will have to adapt to society's view on how a girl should look, how much she should weigh, and what she should do, while Tina will have to adapt to the hard workings on what a man really goes through to work, keep up his appearance, and athleticism. Without knowing how they'll ever be able to possess their own bodies again, will they be able to pull it off before graduation?

When Lauren's mother died, her abusive father looks to her to play the role of house wife and bedmate. Lauren finds a way to escape it all when she meets local barbershop owner and Kingpin Rio.

Caira is a young confused female. It's always been her mother and her ever since she could remember. When this dude new Gerald with come along with his son Hakeem, he threw a twist in her comfortable life! Soon after, her mother became hooked. Officially being one big happy family her mother Moriah began putting her new husband over her daughter. Heads butt and tension flare! Being a young college student it's time to explore life, but with an over bearing stepdad that can be pretty difficult to do.

Bad boy, good girl, cliche happily ever after ending right? Well, not with Melissa and Jionni. One boy is free to do whatever he wants, while the other is sheltered and has her every move watched by her parents. At Baton Rouge High School, "hood boy" Jionni and his friends aren't too fond of the only girl in school who has money, referring to her as a "silver spoon child." But after Jionni has a change of heart, he and the rich girl decides to keep it a secret that they hang out on a regular. After hanging out for some time, the two starts to find interests in things that they never bothered with before. Once their friends and family start to wonder why they're changing and acting out of character, they start to do their own secret investigation to find out what's REALLY happening with the two. It all goes down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. ;)

Meet 16 year old Yasmine, or as they call her, Yas. She’s a Caucasian girl with shoulder length black hair with Violet tips at the end. Like a majority of teenagers at her age, all she’s worried about is partying, smoking, drinking, and hanging out with the crowd that she’s drawn in at school. But once they take it a step too far, she winds up getting into a serious accident that leaves her in a coma. In her coma, she wakes up somewhere else that’s cloudy, blissful, and beautiful. She realizes that it’s heaven and see’s a crowd of people standing over her. These people, were the people who passed away on earth. All of these people were murdered on earth, but never received any justice. [Caylee Anthony, Natalee Halloway, The Black Dalhia, etc.] but one person that stands out that she sees that has been swarming around the news, is Trayvon Martin. After meeting these people, she asks questions and realizes everything that all of the prosecutors and police have missed for years. But what happens when she wakes out of her coma? After waking out of her coma, she realizes that the place called “Heaven" that everyone has been stressing about was actually real! But what does she tell the people in the outside world? After stressing to many people about what people in this other world has told her, everyone around her starts to think that getting into that accident made her a little “psycho", “crazy", and “mental". To visit these people in heaven, the only way she can do it is by potentially killing herself just so that she can see and talk to them. But with this, also comes the cost of people thinking that she’s suicidal or crazy, pushing her mother to take drastic measures to help control her daughters suicidal behavior. Being the only person who knows that these people in Heaven are actually communicating with her, will she be able to convince other people in the outside world on whats going on?