Growing up with a nickname like Misery can seem like the worst thing to happen to a girl. That is, until you find out that your father is a serial killer. Ten years after escaping the town that would never allow her to escape her father's dark shadow, Missouri Jacobs returns to Faulkner Montana with one mission in mind. She needs to settle her family's estates, then she can take that money and start a new life, maybe even with a new name, someplace no one knows her or the stories that surrounded her family. However, returning to her childhood home brings back all of the memories Missouri has been spending years trying to forget. And a chance run in with a boy she once loved with all of her heart makes not drowning in those memories over and over even harder. All set to leave, Missouri wants nothing more than to put Faulkner and everything that happened there truly in the past once and for all, but then... Another girl goes missing. Then another. Then another. Wrapped in a fog of déjà vu and separating the present from her past, Missouri is determined not to be blindsided this time. This new killer might be playing games with her, but this time, she's going to be the one to end this all, or she'll die trying.

🏆2017 WATTY AWARD WINNER 🥇 Olivia Chastain's life was seemingly perfect until she was violently thrust into a nightmare that would haunt her for years to come. Kidnapped by a sadistic murderer, Olivia is subjected to atrocities she'll never be able to erase from her memory. When she's inexplicably released from his grip, horrifying flashbacks plague her every waking moment, but that's not the worst of what she's forced to contend with - the masked madman roams free, preying on other unsuspecting souls. As the days pass, the deviant's reign of terror grows more and more grotesque. As the only surviving victim, Olivia fears he'll find her and finish what he started. Will the authorities catch the elusive psychopath before he strikes again?

From strip clubs and truck stops to southern coast mansions and prep schools, one girl tries to stay true to herself. These Royals will ruin you... Ella Harper is a survivor-a pragmatic optimist. She's spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to make ends meet and believing that someday she'll climb out of the gutter. After her mother's death, Ella is truly alone. Until Callum Royal appears, plucking Ella out of poverty and tossing her into his posh mansion among his five sons who all hate her. Each Royal boy is more magnetic than the last, but none as captivating as Reed Royal, the boy who is determined to send her back to the slums she came from. Reed doesn't want her. He says she doesn't belong with the Royals. He might be right. Wealth. Excess. Deception. It's like nothing Ella has ever experienced, and if she's going to survive her time in the Royal palace, she'll need to learn to issue her own Royal decrees.

#1 in Suspence #4 In Action #5 In YoungAdult #44 In Romance Christofer Luca Santobello is Ruthless, merciless, inhumanly brutal and stone hearted. Being the Italian Mafia boss has it's own perk's like making people fear to even pronounce his name, or fall at his feet for mercy. The handsome Mafia Boss doesn't believe in love. But nor does she. Gabriella Marie Abandonato is in streets with her siblings. Running away from her past. She is one hell of a seductress. She was used to man falling under her feet. But no one knew the real her. The broken girl under the bad girl facade. Once she messes with the wrong crowd it leads her straight to Christofer himself. A bet. A promise. And they both start to play. But there would be only one winner. What will happen when they collide? Stealing motorcycles, running away from the police with the mafia boss. Midnight paintballing, confessions and adventures. Pain, drama, romance, violence, action. ............ ................ .............. The story is much better than the description, so don't let my bad description skill's stop you!

Shaylee Rose Lester is a 22 year old girl who works hard for what little she has. Her parents kicked her out on the streets at the young age of 17, just barely old enough to get a job. As she finds herself homeless, she begins to look for a way to make it. She soon gets with the wrong crowd, becomes drunk and does stupid things. In a drunken stance, she finds herself roaming the streets alone. Until she was found by a man in tan combat boots and fully dressed in camo. Dominic James Lancaster is a 24 year old solider. After being on 4 tours plus some other random acts through thee army, he is ready to return home to relax. Or so he thought. His world is turned upside down when Shaylee comes into his life. In a drunken stance. Before he left he swore off love was only for fools until he became one of those fools. Ours names are Shaylee and Dominic and this is our story...

HIGHEST RANK: #46 IN SCIENCE FICTION, #1 IN SUPERSTITION ~ secrets are kept for a reason ~ They had lied to everyone. They had kept secrets and hid things from the people they were supposed to protect. They thought they were doing the right thing, they thought they could fix the world but instead they destroyed it. They were given a chance to start over, they bargained lives in return for survival. The government leaders ruined everything and now was time for them to pay. Colette didn't ask for this. She didn't ask for the nightmares or the lies or anything that came after that. She wanted a normal life -- a perfect life -- and she had that until things started going wrong. Until she noticed things she wasn't suppose to notice. Then, she became aware.

** Formerly a Featured Wattpad Story ** Seventeen-year-old Crystal White is the new girl on Starfish Island. Dragged to the remote community by her environmental activist father, she is eager to find fun that doesn't involve touching fish guts or listening to local folklore. During a midnight swim with some new friends, Crystal is pulled out to sea by the waves. Convinced she's going to drown, Crystal is rescued by Llyr, a handsome stranger. As she searches for him in the following weeks, she finds there may be more truth to the Starfish legends than she thought. Over a sizzling roller-coaster summer, Llyr introduces Crystal to magic she'd only ever dreamed of. But as Crystal comes to love Starfish Island, it begins to drive her family apart. A nearby power plant is devastating local marine life, and her parents are stuck in the middle. As the magic and mundane parts of Crystal's life converge, she finds herself risking everything to save Llyr, her family, and herself. © Copyright 2014, All rights reserved

How do some writers manage to create characters that are so real, you feel like you've met them? Characters that you wish you could hang out with long after you finish the last page, because they're so fascinating, or because they seem to see the world just like you do, or just because they're out there seizing life in a way you wish you could? It's all too easy to create characters that feel flat, stereotyped, and predictable. This book will show you how to create characters that are the opposite: characters that are vibrant, unique, and surprising. It takes you step-by-step through the process of coming up with a character and fleshing it out with details that will bring that character to life. It will help you make sure that your character is believable, that you have clear motivations for his or her decisions and actions--and it will show you how you communicate those motivations to your readers. Most of all, though, this book will help you to have fun taking your character to the next level. I'll update every Friday and will answer any questions you leave in the comments. Please let me know if there's anything in particular you want me to cover! If you find this helpful, I also blog over at www.cherylreif.com to help writers become more productive, more creative, and more skilled at their craft. :) Cheryl

Four exceptional scientists. One mission: change reality. A mysterious case stocked with increments of a lost artifact turns out to be next revolution as it can emanate infinite amounts of containable energy. It also proves to be the game changer Dr. Eric Greyson needed to save his career before it became deadly power struggle of greed. But that was before the systems stabilizers malfunctioned and the entire project became an international nuclear incident. Three years later, year 2100, arose his daughter from hiding. Her mission: exonerate her father who was framed for the explosion. Except all she had to go on was a damaged video pleading his innocence and his tattered journal to find him. Having to narrowly escape the clutches the all powerful company Nexus who gained imposible amounts of money off of the explosion. She will have to embark on a journey through the wreckage of the dying Earth and make split-second decisions that will decide the fate of her life, her family's, and the rest of the planet as we know it. *** Book one of The AfterEarth Trilogy *** Every breath is a victory. *** Highest: #163 in Adventure