"When I tell you that he hates me, you'll probably assume it's because he's a jerk...but you'd be wrong. He's not a jerk. I am." --- Several years ago tragedy struck Emma's home, leaving her broken... like a cup with cracks spiraling and slithering around the edges. Slowly, bitterness crept in like tar, hardening between each fracture to resemble a deceitful wholeness. She became a monster, and targeted her venom on the sweetest person she could find: Trinity Nixon. Too bad the boy Emma longed for was Trinity's brother. Now, as Emma fights to win the heart of the boy who despises her, she's forced to hide her demons. She paints her fragile cup in pinks, yellows, and oranges - all the colors of the sun. She paints on a smile, and an unusual sense of humor, so that the world will view her as bright and cheerful, when in reality she's breaking. But she's completely unprepared for the acidic truth that melts away the tar, demolishing her shell, and awakening the Emma White buried deep inside. --- Book 1 in The Dismantled Pride series *Story was previously titled "Faking It"

Blake Harper has just moved to the city to audition for the new film "Manhattan". When she is there to audition for the role of Riley Burks, she runs into somebody that seems a bit familiar.

[CURRENTLY BEING REVISED. ALTERATIONS WILL BE MADE.] Brooke Evelyn is your typical 20 year old living in Palo Alto, California with a normal job, living a normal life. When her friend, James Franco, invites her and a couple of other people to his house to have a little get together, Brooke meets that James' younger brother, Dave. Finding a little more about Dave each day, something about him seems a little off, and she's determined to find out what it is.