"i was thinkin' about yesterday, when you asked me why i stayed, with this, and i didn't answer you. i didn't answer you, because i don't know why i stay. nova?" "yea?" "would you like to run away with me?" {cover: @guyswithguitars } highest ranking: #21 in Poetry || completed || "shoot for the moon. even if you miss, you'll land among the stars"

Kara Brandt is in a good place in her life. She has a meaningful and fullfilling career as a dispatcher, just inherited her Aunt's Bed and Breakfast, and the company of a dwarf goat named Merle. Things are pretty content. So what if the feelings she has for the tall, dark, and handsome Sargeant who just traded to her shift are slowly but surely becoming much more than professional respect? Jake Mahon just traded out of detectives for the excitement he craves out on the streets. His past experience gives him the experience needed to lead his deputies through the dangers of the night. Especially when he knows he's got a dedicated, intelligent, and decidedly beautiful dispatcher in their corner keeping them safe. A dispatcher he's finding more and more that he'd like to have in more places than his corner.

Puck You is now available in paperback and e-book! Grace wants to prove herself by making the men's hockey team at her new school. Will a rivalry with the captain - or an attraction between them - get in the way? ***** When Grace Gillman moves to California, she's determined to play hockey -- even if that means making a place for herself on her new school's only team. But Sebastian Evans doesn't want a girl on the men's team, even if she's a great player. He's convinced she'll distract the other boys and cost them their shot at the championship - and with it, his only chance at a scholarship to his dream college. But despite his icy attitude towards her, he can't help but feel a connection building between them - which quickly gets complicated when he learns she has eyes for someone else. Will they remain rivals on the rink, or will things heat up between them? [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Katie Holmes is a caffeine addict. Between college, and taking care of her brother, it's acceptable. Though, it doesn't help that the cafe down the street is full of handsome baristas, including one William Cerak in particular who has a mysterious scar on his wrist. Synopses will be the death of my publishing career.

The Starr Academy is one of the most premier and exclusive school in the United States of America. So exclusive that they turned down Paris Hilton when she tried to demand her acceptance. This school wasn't just for any student. The student must be special for this unique school's different course load. This school isn't just for the wealthy. There is a scholarship program for these who have the something special so they may learn too. The school board doesn't care about a person's family status. They care about the skill of the student attending their school. This school has a rich history and a long past. Started by four of the most prestigious of families on Maryland, this school has stood the march of time and have always been strong. Any student that passes through these halls have come out to be one of the elite in the world. The Starr Academy was the first of nine elite schools all together. This school would the the start of the Mystique Schools. And all of this could be traced to one man. Melerick Lund, the first headmaster of Starr Academy. The head founder of the Starr Academy and beloved headmaster during his reign of the school. ~~~ After Nearly fifty years of the absence of a Lund among the student body, Hope Lund is brought to the school by Marek Knightly. She had no idea that she would be attending Starr Academy until he shows up on her door step. And she is grateful for being away from her family. Want to know why? It's all within this tale. Enjoy...

The first year of Hope Lund's time at Starr Academy is over. Now she has to deal with her family for the summer and then the start of her second year. Things seem to be perfect for her. She has the greatest boyfriend in the world. Friends that seem to be there with her. Nothing could go wrong. But as the year goes on, her perfect world starts to crumble. And everyone sees it. And it all centers around Marek. Marek Knightly doesn't see the damage till it's almost too late to save Hope. The ramifications for the potion Cedric had forced her to drink come to life this year. But what could make Hope's life be put on the line? Follow her through her second year and find out how love could kill her.

It's Hope's final year in Starr Academy. What does this year bring the newly single magical girl? If the first day of school would tell, her past will come back to bite her in the rear and without her counterpart there to help her. This year, the school has been turned upside down with the addition of several students from a sister school. But those students don't just come over, several from Starr take their place. Marek being one of the few who agreed to go. He decided to give Hope a peaceful school year without seeing him everywhere. Peaceful wouldn't be what Hope would call her last year. Not with the dark shadow that haunts her even in those enchanted halls. Can she figure out how to defeat the darkness that seems so real and familiar but different in a way. Her life will depend on it yet again...

Hope has finally started college after her summer long adventure with Franklin, her best friend. Now she will discover life outside of Starr Academy and how much more intense being at a University can be. Thankfully she's prepared for it. What she might not be ready for would be to start actually dating. There are many that will vey for her attention and try to persuade her to say yes to even just one date. Will one finally break through that hard shell she put around her heart to prevent her from being hurt again. Though her first Halloween as a college girl may change everything for her. Follow in the final installment to Hope's life and see who breaks her out of her loneliness and become her one true love.