A little blood, a love triangle, more danger than one girl can handle. What more could a girl ask for? Georgiana Vertigo has the perfect life or at least that's how she views it. Her family is perfect, her friends are even better. But a wrench is thrown into works when five feet and eleven inches of mystery walks into her life by the name of Michael Thor. He's everything she wants but there's one little problem. She can't have him. Because he's a Vampire and Slayers aren't allowed to date Vampires. Someone else has taken an interest in Gee, someone she's known for a long time. Aidan Hanover is everything she wants and he's normal, everything she can have. The only problem is his reputation and if he's really ready to get serious. To make matters worse, someone on campus takes an interest in her, a bad interest. Everyone isn't who they say they are and Georgiana learns it all the hard way. In the first book of The Illusion of Certainty Saga, the waters start off calm and end with ten foot seas. Leaving you wondering what can happen next. © SCCourtney

Fresh off her freshman year of college, Emelina De Sota returns home for the summer. Normally coming home wouldn't be a problem but skeletons quickly start coming out of the closet faster than Em can shove them back in. It doesn't help matters when her overprotective big brother is the boss of the local Spanish Thorns. He puts her so far out of reach that she's comfortable with it at first. But when temptation is placed just down the hall from her, Em finds slipping back into old habits is easier than she originally thought. As her world rapidly starts to turn upside down, will Em choose to risk everything for a chance at the possibility of real love or will she stick with her guns and stay with her family, with what's safe? Book One in the Spanish Thorns Series ~ * ~ This story has a little bit of everything including the following in no particular order: romance, action, drug use, Adele, alcohol consumption, sex scenes, food, death threats, gang violence, street racing, bathroom breaks, medical problems, blood, singular point of view, kissing, cussing, guns, orange juice, and tattoos. This story is rated R. I struggled with this for a while, considering rating it PG-13 and placing the rather "graphic" scenes in a separate book but I believe it would take away from the story. My characters are considered adults in the eyes of the law and society and therefore do 'adult' things. For the most part, the story will be PG-13 but because I wouldn't split it, it's earned an R rating. Hope you understand.