An Orphan has had to survive through petty crime and her wit to survive on the streets all her life, fortunately or unfortunately, it turns out she's the part of one of the richest and most powerful family in the country. The grandmother and matriarch of the Ballan family introduces her to the family and is determined to get rid of her wild personality and make a proper lady out of her. Things don't always go according to plan as she navigates through manipulation, mind games and competition to survive, she understands that the streets might have been a safer place than a castle as glided doors have plenty of skeletons.

(Book 2) Community connotes safety, togetherness. But does it? When Bailey and Chloe head back on the road, they come across strange markings belonging to a group intent on bloodshed and abduction. With a heinous enemy lurking in the shadows, they find help in new and old friends along the way. Together when they finally find Hargrove, all isn't what it seems with the make-shift, post-apocalyptic community. People are turning up dead and for once, zombies aren't the only ones to blame. Fingers are pointed, everyone becomes a suspect and no one is safe outside or inside these walls. Copyright © 2015 by N_D_Iverson All Rights Reserved. (Warning: This is the unedited, raw first draft) **Edited and expanded edition available for sale on Amazon and all other eBook retailers!**

Clara was an average nurse working at a local hospital. After being convinced to take a longer shift Clara is on her way home when she swerves off the road and down a hill. Getting out of her car she looks down and realizes she is standing on ice that was now breaking. She plummets through the ice and into the deep cold icy water. When she wake up she is surrounded by people she doesn't know in a time period she doesn't belong. Join her for her journey in Jane Austen's time period. Highest rank so far #405 in Fantasy