When Helena finds a phone on the night train, she decides to text the first number in the list of contacts in order to figure out who it belongs to. ***** Helena Santos hasn't had the easiest life. At twenty-one, she's the legal guardian of her teenage sister, in the final year of her nursing degree, and working night shifts at her small-town's local bar. And things get a lot more complicated when she finds a phone on the train home and decides to text the first number in the list of contacts, in hopes of tracking down its owner. That contact? Adam Bauer; the charismatic, sweet, and refreshingly honest older brother of the person who lost their phone. As the two continue talking, they can't ignore the chemistry and growing feelings between them, but life is never that simple. To make things work, Helena and Adam need to juggle a troubled sister, a meddlesome ex-boyfriend, and one fat lawsuit - all intent on keeping them apart. [[word count: 40,000-50,000 words]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: This story contains swearing, mature themes, and sexual content.

"I'm distracted from the boy I've bumped into when the world around me begins to change. The grey and white I've seen ever since I was born into this world slowly begin to bleed away, like rain drops sliding down a car window, being replaced with bright, bright pigments. They cover everything, bring to life the world around me. The gravel underneath my feet is no longer a dull grey, the sky is no longer white, the bricks of the buildings no longer black. They're different, beautiful, bright, extraordinary, breathtaking. Colors, I realize. These are colors." x Natalie Grayson has lived her whole life in black and white. She's been waiting to meet her other half- her soulmate- who will make both of their worlds burst in color. It's what she's been dreaming of ever since she was little. She wants to know what color is, how it feels, what it looks like, if it's really as amazing as everyone claims it to be. On her seventeenth birthday, while walking back home through a sketchy part of town, she bumps into a stranger. Before she can even apologize, the last thing she expected happens: the black and white of her world begins to bleed away and is replaced with something else. Colors. When she looks up, Natalie isn't expecting to lock eyes with a rebel. But she does. She also doesn't expect him to run away. But he does.

{Complete} Highest Ranking : #1 in Teen Fiction (11/29/2018) (Thank you so much!) Emma Thompson it's on the run from her past. After seeing her mother being killed by her father and after two years of being held hostage, beaten and damaged by the men who swore to protect her, she decided that it was time to run away from the living hell she's been living through. Looking for a fresh start, she moved state and changed her name, with only one goal in mind, get her degree done without exposing her dark past. Everything changed when she met the one and only Christopher Smith, son of the multimillionaire Jonathan Smith, the owner of the best software company around the world, which made him a guy feared by some and respected by others. With an attitude out of this galaxy that will collide brutally with Emma's personality. Wrapped up in personal and family dramas, dark secrets, old friendships, gang disputes, her college experience will definitely be something out of the ordinary, leaving her questioning everything she believed in. Highest Ranking : #64 in Teen Fiction (01/21/2017)