Was it her beauty that reeled me in? The mysterious, deep, color her eyes contained? Or her addictive smile, smell, or even her personality? It was none of these things. The reason she's too afraid and too sad to even talk is what made her even more mysterious and captivating to me. Not talking for six years as a side affect from a tragic accident is what I learned had caused it; her sister and mothers death traumatized her. And my goal is to help her break free, to help her gain the courage to live her life to the fullest. To speak to me.

Thirty-Eight Days has been reduced to a sample, and is now available in eBook and Paperback. --- Ask yourself, how many days does it take to fall in love? Nolan Parker and Clara Lawrence never saw eye to eye. In fact, if you asked Clara she would tell you that Nolan Parker hated every thing about her. They never shared any form of connection besides Alex Lawrence. She was Alex's bratty sister and he was Alex's best friend, they never stood a chance. Five years have passed and almost 12,000 miles have kept them separated, both living completely different lives. Unchanged perceptions and expectations should have kept them apart but when Nolan returns, the foundations of their 'relationship' is sure to change. Their story was meant to end the day Nolan left for Stanford. But what if seeing each other after five years was the game changer? What if this was their one chance to rewrite their relationship or were they always destined to never be more?

"I love you, Angel. I've never loved someone so much before." He whispers and strokes my cheek with his thumb. Another tear escapes from my eyes but he wipes it away. "Stop." I croak. The look on his face breaks my heart but I can't give in to him. It's a trap, I know it is. "You don't love me, you just... Just..." I can't finish, I can't bare to utter the rest, and thankfully I don't have to. Something flashes in his eyes and I have to look away. "If I could, I would go back and erase what happened to you. I would save you from that pain. But I know I can't do that, oh god I know! When you told me I couldn't sleep, I just kept thinking about it. But you need to know something. I'm not him. I would never do that to you, make you believe those things and then tear you apart. I wish I could give you the ability to read my mind, know what I'm saying is true. If you could so that you would realise how special you are to me." His words, they make me feel something, something so unfamiliar and scary. How is it that I can grow up having the same view my whole life but one boy can turn everything upside down and make me question my own beliefs. Placing a soft kiss to the top of my head, he pulls my towards his chest and wraps his arms around me. "One half of me..." He whispers against my hair. "One half of me is a hopeless romantic. It makes me believe in fairy tales, happy endings... destiny. But the other half is so damn realistic, sometimes it hurts. But despite the differences, they both tell me one thing. I love you and crave for you to love me back the same way."

Trust is like a paper, once crumpled; it'll never be the same ever again.

Dakota Peters is a simple girl. She is okay with surviving high school with her friends, her brother, and her pathetic crush on Caleb Fisher. She has been pining over Caleb since freshman year, but is totally okay with just admiring from afar because she knows that she's too awkward and weird to actually have a boyfriend. Dakota's life is pretty simple this way, pathetically stalking an improbable crush and that's how she's happy living her life until, of course, things get complicated. There's a new boy in town just as another one of her brother's friends confesses feelings for her just as Caleb begins to take notice to her. With all three things happening at once, it's overwhelming for Dakota because she isn't used to boys actually liking her back. She was content with stalking from afar with no real love interest, but now she has three and that's not okay with her. Not to mention her secret manhunt to find her mother, who abandoned her family when she and her brother were four. How can she get through the last half of senior year with all of this abnormal drama going on around her?