For what could be decades, he has known nothing but a windowless room, a locked door, and the man who keeps him there. Hope died a long time ago. Until the day a single maple leaf slipped through a small hole in the wall - reminding him that escape might be possible. After years of isolation, abuse, and the slow collapse of his mind, he must find the strength to challenge the walls around him - and the ones inside himself. This is a story about survival, the passage of time, and the quiet, unstoppable force of human will. Completed novel - 45,000 words.

Young Lena Bentheim is forced to flee Nazi Germany for Chicago in 1935, leaving her family and boyfriend behind. After learning English, she eventually finds a new life as a secretary in the Physics Department of the University of Chicago. She meets and marries another German refugee scientist and has a child. Then tragedy strikes, and Lena is forced to spy on the nuclear fission experiments at the U of Chicago. A novella set in the early years of the Manhattan Project, The Incidental Spy is another fascinating historical thriller by Libby Fischer Hellmann, also the author of the highly acclaimed stand-alone thrillers Set the Night on Fire, A Bitter Veil, and Havana Lost.

Imagine growing up in confinement. A glass box, anxiously praying you aren't the next one to be sold. London lives in a world where young girls are sold to whoever will pay their price. Yet, London isn't sold to just anyone, but to the son of the Governor. The Governor is the one who made all of this happen, the reason why young girls are being bought and sold, and treated as slaves by families. Follow London in this story! ~Thankyou for reading hope you like!~ (This was the first sotry I ever wrote on here so it's kinda awful! Thanks!) (:

15 year old Anastasia Adams has spent her entire life on run. She and her mother have never spent more than 18 months in any one location, often times leaving with just the clothes on their backs. Despite the havoc that this is wreaking on Ana's social and academic life, her mother offers no explanation as to why it is they're constantly moving, or even what it is they're running from. But that all changes one night in the woods of Pelion, SC--the night the terror catches up with them. Fearing her mother dead, and having barely escaped with her own life, Ana is whisked away to world of privilege and tradition. It's a fairytale come to life. The poor girl used to living out of a suitcase is now a resident of one of the most exclusive addresses in the world. The people there adore her and she catches the eye of a young guardian who sees her as a refreshing change to the girls he's grown up with. If only they could find her mother. If only she knew the consequences of being born a "conjurer." If only she knew who that green eyed stranger was, the stranger who'll tell her about a past too romantic, and too tragic to be real. In the end, she'll have to choose between the boy who has captured her heart and the stranger she can feel down in her soul, assuring at least one of them an almost certain death.

When job cuts at Chloe Saddler’s London communications firm result in an unexpected transfer to Paris, she finds herself leaving behind her friends, family, and boyfriend Scott to start a new life in the City of Light. Getting to grips with La Vie Parisienne and keeping a long-distance relationship afloat is not made any easier by the culture shock. Committing the odd French faux pas and inadvertently indulging in a few too many flirtations with her very sexy (and very taken) boss, Jean-Luc, is just the start of it. Factor in her bridezilla of a sister’s wedding (the hottest event of the year in the Saddler family’s social calendar), an unexpected session of hot, naked yoga, a slightly psychotic stalker, and one incredible kiss at an infamous Montmartre nightspot, and Chloe can say au revoir to her old, safe London life and bonjour to the romance, splendour, and glamour of Paris. A delightful debut that harks back to the early days of Chick Lit when heroines were flawed, funny, and forever battling for love and happiness. With quirky characters and classic comedic charm, Cocktails at Le Carmen is pure fun from page one.

Amelia Bridges is a nineteen year old girl living in Moonstone Province, and is haunted by her mental illnesses that threaten to take over her life. The problem is that Moonstone is a place that believes mental illnesses are nothing but a fallacy, leaving Amelia to wonder how this came about and can be stopped. People who claim to have these illnesses risk being marked, which unfortunately becomes a reality for Amelia after being discharged from the local jail following her suicide attempt. While trying to live as normally as possible after this major life adjustment Amelia meets JP Beckett, a boy she is forbidden from dating since she is marked. JP has a story of his own and while trying to figure out Amelia's, he begins to realize the connection they share and finds himself fighting alongside her for a new beginning. It takes courage and strength to speak out and be heard-but will it be too late for change? **This story contains subject matter that may be too intense for some readers. Please proceed with caution and be safe, you are never alone in this fight.**

❝ It all started and ended with Wednesday. ❞

Lucy is a 15 year old girl who is always abused by her parents, picked on by her family and bullied at school. She had depression for 7 months but it went away because her parents went on holiday so she stayed with her best friend Becky, she wanted to be happy so she tried everything and finally it worked because she went outside made more friends and had positive thoughts. Until Lucy's parent return and they become more abusive then usual, she can't tell anyone because her parents will beat her even more? The only option is to run away..

Read first chapter. If you don't like sad stories, then this is not for you.

a story about a woman who fought against Taliban terrorists for girls' education👍