Mona Russell willfully keeps her nose in the books. She's an only-child, a misfit, too distant to really be classified as a human being to her parents. Life's that drab series of sighs and eye rolls one usually finds at the start of the romantic comedies, Mona gorged herself on, yet couldn't quite transcribe successfully into her life's plan. Loathsome and listless, Mona is invited to stay with her estranged grandmother at her home in the mountains where time seems to have have stopped altogether. She can't help wondering what it is that has kept her grandmother in such a dreary state and what exactly it is that's pulling Mona down with her.

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PREVIEW ONLY ••• AMAZON ROMANTIC SUSPENSE BESTSELLING NOVEL ••• Jordan Hawthorne thought she had it all until a surprise for her fiancé turns into losing everything that she ever wanted. She flees her home in Charlotte, North Carolina to take a new job in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and make a new start where her ex-fiancé can’t find her. Jordan is just beginning to adjust to her new life in the middle of nowhere when a small town cowboy walks in and disrupts it all. Tom McCloud never had time for a serious commitment, always too busy with running his grandparents’ farm. Everything changes when he stumbles upon a broken-hearted city girl and a steamy buzz ignites between them. But what happens when the city girl can’t stay hidden in the country for long?

REMOVED FOR PUBLISHING - FEBRUARY 2015 Katherine Klein has been warned: Stay far away from Lance Walton. After one night in the country, the quintessential city girl has the unwanted attention of the infamous country boy. For months, she’s been dodging his advances, but a moment of weakness changes everything. Lance Walton felt immediately drawn to Katherine from the moment she knocked on his best friend’s door Christmas morning. Winning over this city girl is a mountain of a task for any country boy, but Lance is up to the challenge. He never expected the morning he left her naked at The Inn would be the last time he would see her. In the aftermath of her bad decisions, Katherine returns to the city. Haunted by what they shared and all she lost, she vows to never return to the country. But the country finds her unexpectedly when Lance shows up in the most unlikely place. But does he have the country boy charm to break through the walls of her heart and outshine the big city competition?

Creaky old house - check. Strange and unexplainable occurrences - check. Handsome boy that lives in the mirror? - CHECK. Cassandra Reynolds is finally living a dream, her family has moved to London so she could study to be a writer at one of the best schools in the world. Everything is wonderful, until she discovers that her house is haunted. And not only is her house haunted, but by a young man that died in 1940. What is a girl to do with ghost? Well we'll just have to wait and see...

Calliope Stone is dead. Well, not entirely; she's stuck in the in-between, a barren landscape with silver skies where strange birds cry in the dark of night. Something stirs in the shadows. A millennia-old feud is ready to erupt. Calliope doesn't know any of this; all she cares about is her own survival. But what if her fate was never hers to decide? Welcome to a world where souls are more precious than any commodity... And someone's already got his eye on hers.

When Rory Edwards wakes up in a strange room in a strange town just a week before Christmas, the only thing she's sure of is... Well, nothing. And Drew, the man just as lost as her, is no help; a self-proclaimed champion of everything Christmas, Drew's Santa-hat-over-heels in love with the very holiday Rory has hated all her life. That's about as bad as you can get in her books. Then something happens that nobody had expected. Before she knows it, Rory finds herself face-to-face with her greatest fear, and ironically enough it is Drew who must bring her out of the darkness. This is the story of Rory's Christmas, of how a pessimist met an optimist and decided that maybe the world isn't so bad after all.

❝I have never been myself as much as I have with you and all these words.❞ A beginner's attempt at poetry, exploring a few different forms and voices while trying to convey loss and beauty. Organized alphabetically, so feel free to read in whatever order you like. Sept. 2013-June 2014 "eye of twilight" from Jan. 2016

Yesterday, Mona Lieber saw something she shouldn't have. Now she's got an ignorant boy wrapped around her finger, teaching him a lesson about the arts of entertainment. Today, Adrien Finkwell is suffering through 28 nights of classic movies. If he doesn't, one very snarky girl will spill a dark secret of his. They both might learn something about tomorrow.