Singers' Bodyguard || z.m.

❝ I'm 19 and I'm done with school---I don't want to go to college. Who needs to go to college anyway when you're a retired spy and has been appointed as a bodyguard to One Direction? ❞ Illustration by Jessica Durrant

In 27 Days (Watty Award Winner 2012)

Hadley Jamison doesn't know what to think when she hears that her classmate, Archer Morales, committed suicide. She didn't exactly know him, but that doesn't stop her from feeling like there was something she could have done to help him. So to Hadley's surprise, on the very night of Archer's funeral, she has a r...

Define Normal

Normal is... Jade has no clue. When her mother dies and she moves in with her father, she feels like she's entered a different world. Used the threatening situations and secret identities, Jade is surprised to find that normal life might be the biggest challenge she's ever faced.

I Fake That Smile! ( Completed Watty Awards finalist 2012)

.This story is very emotional, Sheena has gone through hell and still is. She is only 18 years old and she is homeless, alone with no family or friends. She goes to school and is in her finale year. Everyone hates her even the teachers, so what happens when she thinks her life couldn't get any worse? read on to find o...

Maybe Perfect

Sophie Campbell is a seventeen year old senior at Jackson High that also holds down a part-time job at the local coffee shop. The way Sophie sees it, there's no need for her to have a boyfriend in high school. All the boys are immature and she's lasted without love for 17 years so far... why not wait one more? However...

The Bad Boy, Cupid & Me

Reece smirked, "Trust me Chloe, the good girl always falls for the bad boy." Chloe Armel is a good girl. She never gets in trouble, gets excellent grades and is loved by everyone. Enter Reece. Wild, badass and has an ego that honestly couldn't get any bigger. He gets into fights, breaks every single rule and couldn't...

Dangerous Waters

Adeline St. Clair, after barely surviving her last adventure aboard Poseidon's Curse, is back with a vengeance and an even bigger craving for adventure. Not only is she and Flynn on their ultimate perilous voyage yet with their heroic thrill-seeking friends in tow, enemies from their past are returning to haunt them a...

Guns 'N' Tulips

Officer Connor Kavanagh lost everything—his badge, his friends and his fiancée—when he agreed to go undercover with the mob and infiltrate the ruthless Bank Bandits. After months of scheming and strategizing, the day of the big heist—and Connor's chance to get his old life back—finally arrives, but right from the star...

Untraceable

NOTE: If you read Untraceable, please consider POSTing an honest review on Amazon (or other platform). If you post a review, email me the review link at shelli@srjohannes.com and I will offer you a free copy of Uncontrollable (Book 2)! :) Limited Offer! Untraceable is an award-winning teen wilderness thriller. Uncontr...

Yeah, I Hate You Too, Sweetheart.

After not seeing each other for nearly eight years, Justin and Laila are suddenly forced to spend the entire summer together. Now if that's not bad enough, Justin and Laila couldn't be more opposite from each other. At first it's plainly clear to everyone that they're just not going to get along at all. But the more J...

Dear God, why did you do this to me?!

Amanda is any father's dream daughter. She's smart, pretty, helpful, loving, caring and - top of a father's list - a virgin. When Amanda's father hires help for the farm, he doesn't expect things to spark between his 'nun-of-a-daughter' and the lower class help. What consequences will this could-be-relationship have o...

Sweet Poison

What happens when you accidentally clash with the scariest thing in your life? A killer? No. A zombie? Think again. A vampire? Worst. Michael Myers? Pft, you wish. London Peters is the type of girl to get along with everybody, well almost. There is a certain group of people that she steers clear of. Why, is she afrai...

Here We Go Again ✓

Tyson Williams has demons to battle with. Growing up in a run-down neighborhood, he learned to rely only on himself. The sole person he enjoys talking to is his childhood friend Angel; everybody else he simply disregards. That is until he runs into a cocky foreign brunette, whose provocative attitude makes it impossib...

12 Weeks, 12 Dates

Meet Piper Hollows. She doesn't like to go out if she has the choice not to. She has things to do and is perfectly fine being in her room on Saturday nights, with her huge pride, her many piles of books, and her sketch pad full of the stick figures she loves to doodle. Starting to notice Piper's isolation from other...

The Shy Girl Has a Gun

Faith Mitchell was never confident. She was happy to blend into the background, much to the protest of her friends. At 16, her life was a normal teenage cliche. She was in love with Jace, the obnoxious player who she couldn't have, and her biggest worry was whether or not he would finally come to his senses and see th...

Fighting to be Free (Completed)

THIS IS JUST A SAMPLE OF THE BOOK. THE COMPLETED BOOK, ALONG WITH BOOK 2, IS BEING PUBLISHED BY HACHETTE IN SEPTEMBER 16 AND THE SEQUEL SHORTLY AFTER. The new, publishing version is fully revised and with brand new content. I'm so so excited for you to all read the new and improved version! Thank you SO Much to ever...

I Solemnly Swear That I'm Up To No Good

It’s 3:23 in the morning. I’m sitting in my bed with a large jar of melted marshmallows. Ryder’s suppose to be here in ten minutes with a large jar of melted chocolate. How he came up with this prank, the world may never know. Why I agreed to help him, the world may never know. Ryder Sweet and Gabi Gomer have never go...

Frozen In Love

Jack, the teenage boy who holds the key to the powers of winter, on the run from a gang of murderers who will stop at nothing to end his life. Alice, an unsuspecting schoolgirl too obsessed with the betrayal of her ex-best friend and crush to notice that her life is a web of lies. Two people drawn together by froste...

Stalkers, Secrets and Lies (Completed)

As freelance body guard, Ethan goes where he's sent, protects who he's told to and does his job perfectly. His latest assignment is to protect an 'Indie Rock Star' called Johnny Brent, who seems to have picked up a particularly nasty stalker. Johnny lives in the old town where Ethan grew up. He had moved away six y...

Waist-Deep In Walmart

"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 i...