Natalie Abernathy was born into a world where the lines on your skin tell everyone who you are. They appear like tattoos and change with every choice you make, every person you meet. Only one line remains constant. Your love line. The only colored line on the human's skin, a blood red mixed in with the black. Natalie's world is consumed with The Sickness, the next stage in human evolution that can strike you when you are fourteen. Or doesn't. If you survive The Sickness, you become one of the Elite, faster, stronger, smarter than the humans who don't get The Sickness. The Elite's lines are colorful, beautiful in their own way. A mixture of deepest purples, the darkest blues, and dominate greens. They cover the black lines the Elite were given at birth, rewriting their destinies forever. As Natalie comes to find, the Elite aren't what they seem. The Sickness is not what it seems. Her heart is broken by the loss of her best friend Cecil McCourt, who succumbed to The Sickness days before their shared fifteenth birthday. Her friends surround her, trying to fill the void left by Cecil. Time moved on, carrying Natalie along with it. Now it's three years later, everyone's senior year. Days before school starts, Natalie befriends the new boy in town, Union Davidson. Cecil (now known as Cyrus) is quick to warn her away from him. At first she thinks it's a trick but as things start to happen, Natalie finds herself trapped between the thing she wants most in the world and something else quite darker than she imagined. © SCCourtney ~ * ~ Finalist in the Watty's 2012

When most people look back on their lives, they see that one defining event. The moment that changes everything. And my moment was him.

Book Two - Haven Series ALYSSA SLOANE, after facing down breast cancer, the death of her mother and being dumped by her fiancé, is at the end of her emotional tether. The silver lining to the dark cloud hovering over her lately is she's on the cusp of being reunited with her twin after six long years apart. Now Alyssa has to pick up all the pieces of her broken life and find out who she is and what she's really made of. ETHAN DAVIES is a figure of authority, respect, and after the shocking events of the summer, a hero cop to the islanders on Haven. He follows the rules, even if that means never stepping a toe out of line. Ever. As his soon to be sister-in-law, Alyssa is the last person he should be thinking about getting into bed. She's fire; wild, spontaneous and exciting as hell. Where his life has always been about following the rules, with her he wants to break them all. Even though he knows she's hiding something. Something major. Getting too close to Alyssa could get him burned. Both have scars that go deep. And some wounds never heal.

After escaping from police custody, Clover tries to piece his life back together. Determined to return to home and be reunited with his family, he has to first elude the country wide man hunt. Will he be able to resist his old ways in order to remain undetected? After hearing that Colin has escaped, Summer and Becca prepare themselves for the inevitable; Clover is coming back for them. Will the police and their families be enough to protect them? Clover's coming back and he's determined to prove to the girls; 'You'll always be mine'.

Emma Thorton is running! Running from a past so gruesome she can’t talk about it in order to be safe. Her secret must stay between her and son Buddy, as they flee from the place of her dreams, her beloved horse ranch in Bedford Pennsylvania, and take up new residence in Blue River, Colorado. But secrets have a way of coming out, especially when neighbors like horse rancher, Jack McKenna, go snooping and find pictures of Emma Thorton astride a famous show horse. Can Jake McKenna unfold the mystery, and discover what makes Emma Thorton so skittish around men and close lipped about her past? Can he teach her how to take steps to heal and find courage to trust again in spite of her scars? But steps are not enough. Emma must learn to leap in order to discover love and fulfill her destiny. She must find the strength to begin believing again; to search the place in her heart and uncover what dreams are made of? Some content deals with domestic abuse and violence. This work is fictional and copyrighted.

He made her happy. Simple. With her parents divorce and growing up with four sisters, life had been hell. However, Jonah made Lex feel like a new girl. No one doubted their love for each other. They didn't need to, it was evident on their faces. They were in love, and didn't care who knew it. Who knew that one stupid decision could tear them apart? *A/N: This was originally titled "I Loved You More," but the title was changed to avoid confusion between my user-name and story name. It's still the same story, with the same content. All that's changed is the cover and title.*

Lacey Hannigan was never your average girl. Why? Because she can see ghosts. In a new town, she feels like she can finally move on with her life, and feels like she has a better grip on herself than ever. Until Finn McDermott enters, the ghost of a hot, arrogant quarterback that disappeared nine months ago. And Lacey doesn’t know what’s scarier to her. The fact that everything she thought she knew was all a lie. Or the fact that Finn, one by one, is slowly undoing all of the hard work Lacey put up to protect herself and her gift. And that she doesn’t mind. Join Lacey and Finn as they work together to uncover Finn’s murder and bring justice to his death, finally freeing him from this world and allowing him to move on. But, when the time comes, will she be able to let him go? Cover: CityPerson Trailer: novemberdreamer

1750 BC, Ancient Sumeria: When her home city is conquered by a notoriously cruel prince, Eliana's world is torn apart. Things go from bad to worse when he chooses her beloved sister for his concubine. ** This story was written around five years ago and subsequently had some parts unpublished while I put it out into the world on Amazon. It's been around for a while now so I decided it was time to republish the whole thing on here. Enjoy!

"It's unlike any paranormal book I've read--very smart, very fresh, and very addictive, and very still in my mind." –And Anything Bookish In 1692, when witch trials gripped the community of Salem, Massachusetts, twenty-six children were accused as witches, exiled, and left for dead. Fourteen of them survived. The Survivors is the first installment of the tantalizing tales of the fourteen ill-fated Survivors and their descendants, who have been content in hiding for over three centuries. Isolated on a Montana mountainside, only Sadie, the rogue daughter, dares to abandon the family’s sacred hiding place. But no matter how far Sadie runs, something always pulls her back. On a muggy summer night in Tennessee, she witnesses a shocking scene that will change her life forever. It is the first in a sequence of events that will drag her from the human world she’s sought to belong to for over a century and send her back to her Puritanical family. Sadie is thrown toward an uncertain future filled with cunning witches, mysterious nosferatu shape-shifters, dangerous eretica and vieczy vampires, millennia-old mythology, and the search for her own mortality. After all… HOW DO YOU KILL A SURVIVOR? The Survivors will steal your heart and invade your mind. Fall into the pages of Sadie’s life, a world so frighteningly similar to your own, you’ll find yourself wanting to go to the Montana mountains to find the Survivors for yourself. And it is only the beginning. "The way Ms. Havard has taken the history of the Salem witches and made it her own is truly fascinating... great debut from a talented writer." –DJ DeSmyter, author of Hunted “[THE SURVIVORS is a…] promising debut and an incredibly unique paranormal romance. Unputdownable, engaging, realistic and dark..." –Fragments of Life Review Blog Can't wait to read the whole story? THE SURVIVORS is available for purchase now through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, the Apple iBookstore, and

Chosen when a child, Lady Joselyn is trained to be a ruthless killer. She is destined to be the English king's assassin and protector. Only he and the guild master are supposed to know. It's a life and death secret that must be kept. For an assassin survival is precarious. Life is something you simply cannot take for granted because the next day is never granted. Despite her privileged upbringing, Joselyn quickly learned how to survive on her own and to never trust a soul while following the Guild without question. Upon her return to England, a murderous plot against King Cassiush is discovered. Joselyn is shocked when she finds out who the fiend is. She's even more shocked when the King proposes marriage, a lot. An assassin has never married her king before. The last one who fell in love had her tongue ripped out and was burned alive. Letting her emotions cloud her judgment, Joselynfalls for Cassius and agrees to the marriage, jeopardizing not only his life but her own. Disobeying the Guild means death. Now she must figure out how to keep them both alive and not piles of smoldering ash.