Note to Readers: This title is now under contract and I have to take it down from wattpad. I am only able to post a sample chapter--SORRY! It will be available July 11, 2017 on amazon! Melanie Blythe is perfectly happy staying home and focusing on her graphic design clients. She knows her limits and has been burned be...
Food columnist and aspiring fashion journalist, Ava Woods is already on her last rope. Given an ultimatum by her editor-something fresh on his desk first thing in the morning or she's fired-Ava gets working on the article to save her career. But when her best friend's Singles Group crashes her apartment, Ava's forced...
Bridal shop owner Amber Davis dreaded the moment she'd run in to Parker Robinson while working on his sister's wedding. She'd spent every summer in the Hamptons with his family as a kid, fantasizing about kissing him. But she's shocked to discover that the confident boy who'd given Amber her first taste of love has be...
At 17, Wildy's mother and 13 year old sister were murdered in front of her. Ten years later Wildy is a cutthroat investigative reporter on a mission to bring her family's killer to justice. Unfortunately, justice for her family may prove to be the worst kind of injustice for Wildy and the man she loves.
Virginia, 1864… Juliet Jackson hasn’t heard from her fiancé in over a year. Writing Cole off as yet another crushed dream, she is shocked when he shows up on her doorstep one chilly December night wounded and on the run. When she learns that he has been serving the Union as a spy, she does what any self-respecting sou...
With summer just around the corner, Coraline's prepared for another busy tourist season at her family's hotel. What she's not expecting, however, is England's hottest up-and-coming music sensation, Leon McCarthy, showing up at the check-in desk.
It’s 1999, and curvy funny girl Evianna Moore is about to celebrate her 99th birthday. But rather than the wrinkled nanna she should rightfully be, Evi appears to be only 30 years old. She has a medical condition, which means she does not age. Her hidden condition is rare, feared and misunderstood by most of the worl...
The tables are turned: having magically stopped aging in the 19th century, Lilly Linton is no longer the secretary slaving for cold, stone-faced business-magnate Rikkard Ambrose. Now, in the 21st century, the roles are reversed. In their fierce struggle for control, who will emerge on top? In this short story, everyth...
They say money can buy happiness. Emily Parker is trying to make bank to prove that saying right but no matter how hard she pounds the pavement in peep-toe heels and pencil skirts, she's nowhere near the success that her father, a career salesman, always said she would have. At the brink of losing a deal that could co...
Seducing The Single Lady is a sexy historical romance inspired by the songs of Beyoncé. She's a single lady.... Miss Susannah Grey could have any man she wanted now that she's beautiful, rich and finally free to encourage suitors after the death of the man to whom she's been betrothed since birth--and who fled to th...
Desperate to find her sister, Erin goes to the only man in Houston who can help her: Ivan Markovic. The intimidating, tattooed Russian operates one of the most elite mixed-martial arts training centers in the world but it's his shadowy past and reputed connections with Houston's underworld that interest her most. To...
When Marla Jacobs discovers that the shop next to her Little White Wedding Chapel is to become a funeral parlour, she declares all-out war. Marla’s chapel in the sleepy Shropshire countryside has become a nationwide sensation, but the arrival of Funeral Director Gabriel Ryan threatens everything Marla has worked for...
Newspaper reporter Maddie Forester once had a hot affair with Marine major Ryan Cavanaugh. But that was months ago, and Ryan wants nothing to do with her now. When they meet up by accident in Hawaii, they find out their affair isn't quite as final as either of them thought. It's still red-hot and sizzling! A (very) s...
WARNING: Very short story. It's meant for entertainment purposes only that will induce at least one snort-laugh. *** Dumped, on Valentine's Day no less, Samantha doesn't see how this day can get any better. Until she runs into Evan the IT Geek at the local pub. He's the last person she wants to see. Ever. But when he...
My to-do list for planning this society wedding was supposed to be simple: 1. Arrange some tastefully naughty pre-wedding activities for the bridal party. 2. Get the bride and groom down the aisle so they can get started on their happily ever after. But now the groomsmen—aka five of the world's most outrageous playbo...
When Val DiPaola founded Beyond the Stars, a therapeutic resort for families of fallen soldiers, she never imagined she'd be hiring her ex. Although Val's moved on since Lucas Derringer walked out of her life fifteen years ago, she's never forgotten him. She can't deny that his experience treating vets with PTSD and h...
Sheriff Rico Geary is having a bad day—two people were found murdered in his town, and the only witness claims to have amnesia. He takes one look at the witness and realizes she's none other than Gina Blake. His estranged wife. But there's no time to find out what Gina is doing in Maverick Springs. Or why she left him...
Ben Gray was a sexy, broad-shouldered, hardworking cowboy. It had been so easy for Holly Banks to fall for the man—and his lies. After finding out the truth about the cowboy she had thought she loved, Holly flew home to New York, a place as far from the Bar G luxury guest ranch in Montana as she could get. But she nev...
Underemployed Julia Cruz longs to have a real career, but her options at the Noble Matchmaking Agency are limited by her lack of experience. So when the ambitious receptionist is finally given the opportunity to play matchmaker, she's dismayed to discover how attracted she is to her first potential client, sweet and g...
Semi-finalist in #SYTYCW15 #Presents /Modern entry - A Brazilian man, an English woman and the magic of Hong Kong. An emotional and sexy book about two people finding out if they can overcome their turbulent past. I'd really appreciate your comments! Thank you for reading!! Carrie x
complete // They were like parallel lines. They had so much in common yet they've never met. What started as a forgotten notebook and an incomplete doodle quickly turned into a friendship through a notebook. Question is, will they, unlike parallel lines, meet? ━ https://vivaldings.tumblr.com/WPLI cover: me ━ Short Sto...
"Hello?" "Um, hey?" "Wait, you don't sound like my Aunt Kathy." "Unless I was miraculously converted into a member of the opposite gender and somehow related to whoever is on the other side of this call, then yeah. I'm not your Aunt Kathy." "Oh, shiitake mushrooms." ...
The one that got away? If asked a week earlier, tycoon Jack Strauss would have said he'd made his peace with the past. But one glimpse of his first love, Angela Mancuso, and he knows he's been lying to himself. He needs to make amends, but will Angela even want to see him again? Angela has never forgotten her brief ro...
She was quiet, and lived in the small neighborhood bookstore. And he watched her, every day. Pick up a book, read page by page, tears streaming down her face, or laughter, sweet, melodic laughter come out of her mouth. And he loved her. So much. So one day, he does the unthinkable to the girl he believed thought him t...
Marina Hathaway has one goal: to work for the House of Steele, an infamous security firm. She has one chance, and one chance only, to prove that she has what it takes. Except when she meets with her client, his true identity is revealed—he's the man she fled after a sizzling fling! Zachary Keene could never forget th...
She writes all night. He flirts with girls all night. But when they come together in his room... the Cool Boy of the school and the Socially Inept Girl share a bed and make the night theirs. © 2014 All rights reserved | Short-Story #2 | Humour #15 |
Maisie Lockhart is your non-believer of "love at first sight". Until, it may become an awaken belief when a particular delivery boy catches her eyes one day at her family market. Without a doubt, Maisie finally feels that "attraction" kicking in. But what happens when that certain delivery boy is nowhere to be seen? E...
Its New York, 1924, and Prohibition is in full swing, which means so is the Mafia. Grace Hanson is a seventeen year old that's just graduated from high school, waiting for her life to begin. In the meantime, she lives with her father, Dr. George Hanson. Unfortunately, her father has gotten himself into a bit of a tou...
Angela's day started out like any other day. She slept, she got up, and she got the mail. She didn't even know how much that one small task could change her life forever. When she discovers a peculiar letter mixed in with the mail, Angela can't help but open the letter. Upon reading it, she realizes that she hasn't ju...
l a u n d r y : /ˈlɔːndri/ noun / the act of masturbation and/or having sex. [urban dictionary] little snippets of conversation between adrian macintyre: a spoiled boy who doesn't know the difference between detergent and bleach; and ira dewan: a free spirited girl who is a little too obsessed with matching socks to...