Ariana's mother just got remarried. Jax, her new step brother isn't shy about his attraction and on top of that there's something awfully strange about him. Full summary inside. Book 1 in the Ariana Ellis series Book 2 now posted. Title: As Hope and Promise Fade

Eleanor Snape has always been told she looks like her Uncle, Severus Snape, but, she has never meet him. This all changes when her father dies. The Ministry of Magic puts her in the hands of her Uncle, and finally she can attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, something her father had never let her do. Soon, she finds that love can be found in even the least expected places when Draco Malfoy befreinds her along with his gang of other Slytherins, the shy Vincent Crabbe, the fun loving Gregory Goyle, and the abnoxious Pansy Parkison. Her life goes pretty smothly, with the exeption of remedial potions, until the murderer Sirius Black breaks into the school, making a flood of horrid nightmares take over her life. Complications continue as she finds that Draco's mother dearest hates her, she is punished by being forced to play piono for the Hogwarts Chorus, and Sarah Beth Cumberland, the neice of Ministry member Dolores Jane Umbridge, makes the goal to make Eleanors life as bad as she can. Throughout the year, Eleanor keeps asking the same question: Will things ever get better?

Memory has been abused and hated for the past two years. "I prayed for death but like I said God had stopped listening to me a long time ago."

"As I sat on the toilet, I realized how badass I was being. First of all, I (kind of) broke into Walmart; Second, I was (kind of) plotting to steal toilet paper; and third, I was doing all this while a hurricane was brewing outside." Ellie wanted a quick trip to Walmart to buy some toilet paper for her mom. A minute in, a minute out. Instead, she got locked in. With her secret love, of course.

"Rose, I'm sorry, but your eyesight will be gone by the end of this year." Who knew one simple sentence could change a life so drastically? Rose is a normal seventeen year old girl with a normal life, normal friends, and what she thought to be normal vision. When she receives the news her vision is slowly deteriorating, she doesn't know what to think. Her life is over. What's a life without being able to see? Enter Chace, a young man who tackled Rose to the ground, mistakingly thinking she was about to commit suicide. He's handsome, suave, and has no idea why Rose is so upset. And even though she is a complete stranger, he decides he wants to help her feel better. With four months until her vision is gone forever, Rose slowly falls in love with this happy-go-lucky young man, but never reveals her problem to him. She's scared. Will he stay with her when he finds out she's going blind? Or will he ditch her when he finds out the truth?

After two months of isolation and 'working out issues', Liv returns home with more secrets than before she left. Why she left and where she went are questions to all but her and her family. Liv claims to be cured, happy and never better, but is she really all that she says? Or is she still battling the demons of her past?