Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

"I am Lily Rosetta Keer. My first name comes from the flower, lily of the valley. I'm supposed to be delicate and beautiful. Think of the opposite of that. That's really me." When Lily gets stuck between her "special" sister, a poplular girl out to get her, the head of the football team crushing on her, and fighting parents she thinks her world will end. This thrilling story will make you laugh, cry, and mabye even help you in life.

A smile crossed Death's cold, skeleton face. "Looks like you're out of a job," he told her. The angel looked up at him, shocked. "I-it's not as easy as it looks," she insisted. [A compilation of short stories that are sometimes about life, but mostly about Death.]

❝Weak.❞ ❝Useless.❞ ❝Pushover.❞ These are the words that are used to describe Princess Skylet le'a Xenlisa, third princess of the Queendom of Nyvalia. She is an abnormality in a family of women renown for being brave, headstrong, and reckless. Everyone expects her to become like her sisters or her mother, Queen Xenlisa, the brave warrior queen who managed to unite the countries and bring peace to the continent for the first time in a hundred years. But Skylet finds that she'd much rather feed the geese, watch bread rising in the kitchen, or take care of her garden than rule a queendom or take up a position of leadership. After all, she doesn't expect to be chosen as Crown Heiress, being the youngest daughter. But when misfortune strikes, everything that Skylet knew and hoped for shatters. The peace that her mother struggled so valiantly to achieve was tenuous and vague -- and it came with a price. Haunted by her own weakness, and surrounded on all sides by enemies and political machinations, Skylet is forced learn to navigate the treacherous Nyvalian court and unravel the conspiracy coalescing around her. If she fails, the only thing she'll be next in line for...is the morgue. -� WATTYS2014 WINNER // #264 in Historical Fiction

1558. Elizabeth, the last of King Henry's heirs, is a traitor's daughter. Now, she is England's last hope. After five gruesome years, Bloody Mary is on her deathbed. She lives her sister Elizabeth a daunting inheritance: the throne of England. The bishops will not anoint a heretic. A foreign queen plots for the throne. And Englishmen and foreigners alike are starting to notice Elizabeth's growing infatuation for a man who spent his youth in a traitor's cell. And the people demand a prince to fill the empty throne by Elizabeth's side: a husband that may wrest away every morsel of her power. Tides are turning in England, and no one is safe. Not even the queen.

Update: This story has been discontinued. - I am terribly sorry. Your mother lied to you. She told you that you were unique, and that as a teenager you have a whole bunch of options you can choose from to determine who you want to be. She must have been high. Look, I'm going to tell you this honestly. Somewhere out there in this floating sphere of green and blue, there's a person who acts just like you. It's the combinations of different personalities - which eventually lead up to an actual human being - that makes us all unique. But it can't hurt to find out where your personality stems from, right? Wanna know who you are? I'll help you out. There are 36 students in my classroom. Which one are you?

They live on opposite ends of a continent. The ferocious Second World War tears it apart. How will they survive through immense battles and heartbreaking conflicts? Friedrich Müller is a devout young adult who wants to serve his country. Pride looms over him and the army he volunteers in, the Wehrmacht, and is unaware of the dangers that they overlook when his army invades the Soviet Union, and how many are against their presence. Anton Kretzsky, a student who attends Moscow University and is engrossed in literature, is suddenly conscripted into the Red Army and he is forced to serve the government that he is deeply against. He unknowingly holds the skill of marksmanship, and is made into a lethal assassin by his own companions, oblivious to what they made him become. What would happen when both meet face to face, in a time when war was all that existed? ©officiallysarra, 2016 Cover by officiallysarra, photos belong to rightful owners