Rose Adams has always loved her family. They're the one thing that stays constant in her life, supporting her through the best and worst moments of her life. When her life changes in one night of her sophomore year of high school, she learns the darker truth behind what her life really is about and what her life has been for the past sixteen years. She makes new friends as she realizes that her fairy tale life is missing a long and thorny prologue. Follow Rose as she seeks to find herself and her place in the world she lives in while living the life of the average teenager.

Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. * * * Being re-written completely as of May 14, 2021

This is dedicated to Lindsey Stocker at Beaconsville High School in Montreal, the students at Tottenville High School in Staten Island, and other students who are fighting sexist dress codes around the nation. Thank you for the inspiration and the spark to the fire, and hopefully we can change the world through the clothes we wear.

**PUBLISHING 6/20/2017** Mermaids are soulless, flesh-eating monsters of the sea, wicked in all ways-but some are born with more humanity. Nathaniel Thomas believes in monsters. He's seen his share since joining the pirate crew of the Blood-Red Siren. Tales are rampant, especially of mermaids-the deep sea nymphs. With their hypnotic songs, they lure ships to crash and then feast on those aboard, stealing the seed from a man's loins while drinking down his blood. But Nathan has learned not to believe in things he hasn't seen with his own eyes. All of that seems foolish when he witnesses hideous, scaly-skinned abominations peeling the flesh from his shipmates, but Nathan manages to avoid death. He is rescued by a similar creature, and though he is wary of her, he soon finds that she is nothing like her kin. He calls her his Treasure, and she is beautiful beyond anything he's ever seen. There is goodness in her. He knows they do not belong together, but she will not leave him. Likewise, he cannot purge her from his thoughts. Nathan is introduced to truths he never would have believed, to a love he never thought possible, and to a war that he could not anticipate. There are secrets and horrors in the dark depths, and he is out to uncover them, even if the truth costs him his own humanity. Dark, frightening, and erotic, DARK DEPTHS is a retelling of The Little Mermaid.

"As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly." In which Anna writes about a lot of people kissing.

"We often confuse what we wish for with what is." ~ Neil Gaiman

Every winter, Crossvale High would hold a competition within the school for the eleventh form, as said to spice things up for the winter. It was tradition for the top boy and top girl of the form to go through a series of preparation for the ultimate finale, the Winter Agon. It was almost foreseeable by everyone that Brienne Summers, the popular and pretty chemistry genius, and Kaden Austin, the unapproachable but undeniably irresistible biology genius would unquestionably be chosen. Each year, the respective competitors fight it out for the fame and the hefty sum of reward. Every 365 days, a new pair of enemies would be born. People expect the two constantly bickering best friends to finally turn against each other and unleash the hate they had for each other that was supposedly brewing beneath the surface. After all, they were too different. However, they were soon to be disappointed.

This is my extended family's story. I heard what happened when we went to help clean everything up before the reconstruction. Because I was not actually there at the time of the fire, I'm sure things probably went down a bit differently. I did, however, include all the details that I know for sure, the rest I imagined. Cover by Rainyday1209

In an attempt to spread positivity, the project 'chère chérie' was created.