The wonder of love is that you never know when it will begin, the tragedy of love is that you can never foretell how it will end......... Brought together by circumstance, for Timothy - battle hardened soldier and Cassie tragically blinded by illness as a child, love comes in stages, but love is never a smooth road. ©Queen Virginia 2017 All rights reserved. No part of this e-book may be reproduce, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or otherwise without any prior written permission of the writer.

My entry for the #BeautyAndTheBeast competition. Yay me. Kind of stream-of-consciousness stuff but I'm super tired and using that as an excuse for my mediocre writing talent. (This is way too autobiographical and #deep for a Friday night) Ranked top 10 Beauty and the Beast Competition. Highest rank: #116 in short story.

Belinda and her mother live in poverty. Their only hope of escape is if Belinda can use her natural beauty to make the prince fall in love with her, but when Belinda meets him, she finds she can't help but be honest with him. She assumes that once he knows the truth, he will throw her out of the palace- or worse. But it turns out the prince has a secret of his own... This is a twist on the traditional Beauty and the Beast tale, written for @BeautyandtheBeastUK 's short story competition. It's about the lengths we'll go to for the ones we love, and the power of inner beauty.

She never looked in the mirror. She never liked her reflection. Each day more and more of her beauty withered away and died. What was left underneath was a broken,bruised, beautiful girl and this is her story. Top 10 finalist in the beauty and the beast uk competition.

in which a girl with one leg discovers she isn't incomplete after all Also known as 'I find it very difficult to create a story with less than 1000 words' written for Beauty and the Beast UK's writing challenge and ranked as a Top Ten entry

❝It's a lovely day outside, Potter, maybe you should go and enjoy it? ❞ ❝I was going to but then you came inside and it got a whole lot lovelier in here...❞ ▬▬▬▬ Lily Evans was always known for her ability to hold a grudge which she had held against James Potter after an unfortunate first encounter. Suddenly all those feelings of hate seem to be changing thanks to a damn, good jawline leaving Lily to figure out the tangled mess that is her feelings. This along with Potter appearing at the most unexpected times with his "Potter plans", sorting out a budding unrequited love triangle and the ever present threat of exams is enough to drive any girl insane. [A WATTPAD FEATURED STORY] [HIGHEST RANK - #305 IN FANFICTION]