Hayden Harris has finally come to terms with the fact that she's dying. It's killing her parents and breaking their marriage. At 17 years old, Hayden uses her one wish from the cancer society. One thing she's always wanted was to meet Colton Dixon and tell him how much of an impact that he has made on her life. --- ❝I'm not too young, or too old. I'm not too shy or too bold.❞ I grinned, looking up at Colton. ❝You're not too small for this big world. You're limitless, Hay.❞ Colton smiled, gently taking my hand.

Three months after she started living with Colton and Annie, Alexis's life should be pretty close to perfect, if not very, very improved. And it is. But she can't shake the shadows of her past... the dreams, the cuts that still appear on her arms over and over again without Colton knowing, and everything else that won't let her have a moments peace... from her life. Hard as she tries, she can't seem to be the perfect Christian that she is convinced both God and Colton want of her, but she also can't go back to who she used to be. Ideas float through her head about not being at all anymore, and she can't believe that she's slipped that far again, and refuses to come forward to anyone who loves her, convinced that it will be the end of that. But as she keeps slipping, trying desperately to get back up without any help, it's getting close to a struggle between the Brand New Life that Colton is trying so desperately to show her that she can have, or no life at all. A/N: If you haven't read Rise, I highly recommend that you go back and read it first, or very little is going to make full sense.

❝ hey pretty girl, can I have this dance? and the next one after that, gonna make your mind there's a real good chance. hey pretty girl, can I have this dance? ❞ in which he meets his best friend's sister and unintentionally falls for her. ( ANTHEM LIGHTS ) ( SPENCER KANE ) started ; august 16, 2017 published ; august 17, 2017

When she was little, Alexis had it all. Rich parents who she believed in her heart loved her more than anything else, a huge house, a Nanny to take care of her while her parents were at work, and anything else she needed or wanted. And then, one night that she thought would be like all the others tore all of that apart. Now, she and her mother barely make enough to stay alive, their poverty heavily due to her mom's nights in the bar, forgetting about life. Younger siblings come, then leave in abortion, through Alexis's mother's love life, and the one person she'd actually learned to trust again is newly dead by cancer. And her mother has just remarried the person she used to call "Daddy". Her only real friend is the razor that stays in her pocket or on her arm through the thick and the thin of life. Then, while her parents are on their honeymoon after getting remarried, with nothing to do and oblivious of the religion... or relationship... behind the bands she's going to see, Alexis goes to a little concert by the name of Winter Jam, with no real concept of what she's seeing besides a love of Skillet, a bare idea of Britt Nicole, and the songs she listens to by NF on her way there. When a chance meeting with a stranger turns into getting drug to the meet-and-greet line for a not-so-chance meeting with Colton Dixon, Alexis has no idea that it will change her life forever. But with a leading of Holy Spirit on his heart, and a glimpse of Alexis's arms under her sleeves burning in his memory, Colton finds it impossible to stand oblivious to the downward spiral he can see in Alexis's life. But it's a spiral she gave into long ago, and it will take every ounce of strength either of them has in them for Alexis to rise above the world and into the arms of Christ.

[based on season one of The Flash] || book one of three || At the time Central City's own Barry Allen discovers he has the ability to run faster than the speed of sound, a woman from his past, Parker Sylas, returns to her hometown. Scoring jobs at both the CCPD and S.T.A.R. Labs, the two were destined to cross paths again, this time, in a way unlike ever before. started: october 8th 2014 ended: september 13th 2015

Arizona Touris is content with her simple but beautiful life with her brother, Miles, and her best friend, Jasper. But when her eighteenth birthday comes around, Arizona is forced to marry the prince. While people tell the couple that they'll grow to love each other, they ask the very important question: What if they can't find a way to truly love each other? What if they just aren't meant to be? *Unedited* Thank you to @ML_Brooks for the cover and fan art! Watty Award 2014 Winner of the category Beginner's Luck.

Wren Martin is socially awkward. She blocks off herself to the world, hiding behind her favorite hoodie. All she wants to do is keep a low profile, and graduate well enough to qualify for a college scholarship. But then a babysitting job leads her to cross paths with Asher Reed, Eastview Highʼs notorious athlete. When a field injury kickstarts his senior year, heʼs turning his free time and attention to Wren. And maybe she might not want to be invisible after all. ***** [Watty's Collector's Edition Winner] [TFA Runaway Prize Winner] [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Santoro

On the first day of freshman year, Brianna Kelly is living the perfect life of a Christian dancer. Attending the best performing arts high in Nashville, with her best friend, her supportive family, and her amazing church by her side, and it seems things can't get much better. But then, that best friend, the one who's been with her through thick and thin since she was four years old, rapes her, then says it was both of them, and destroys her life as she knows it. With everything inside of her shattered and almost everyone she knows believing a lie about how it happens, Bri finally can't take it anymore and swallows a bottle of pills, leaving the house to avoid getting caught. But when a run-in with her favorite artist turns into her life being saved, she's left with her family and friends scorning her even more than before, and it seems to her there's nothing left but to try again. But Toby isn't giving up so easily, and soon, she's like another daughter to him. But is his love for her enough to pull her from the darkness and help her be put together again before it's too late?