DISCONTINUED. " Villains aren't born, babydoll, they're made. " // Gray Hawking's life is shrouded in everything dangerous. In the past four years, that's all it's been. Though her current life is lived in a bloodbath and is full of debt, everything that has tainted her very being isn't what haunts her. Gray wants freedom, but she knows that one suspicious step can be the end for her. When Gray finally realizes that the Irish Mafia just might never let her go, she figures she's got nothing to lose. Then she meets Elijah. Full of mysteries and lies, Gray can't help but be drawn to him. His touch is like a wildfire, something Gray hasn't ever experienced before. She knows that it's next to impossible to be with someone without putting their life in danger, but little does she know that Elijah's got a whole set of secrets on his own. // I don't own any of the media that I attach to my chapters, unless I state otherwise. #myyouth #projectbadgirls #projectbadassgirls #projectbadboys

| Snow White vs. A Poison Apple | .... Katya Emerson's worst fears had been realized: her no good father gained custody after her mother's sudden disappearance. Now living in inner city Chicago, she crosses the one person who could tear her life apart, but she isn't ready to back down yet. .... Luka Vincenzo is not a "diamond in the rough". He is a piece of coal at the bottom of a chimney. Surrounded by a cloud of smoke and thorns, he terrorizes those around him with a single look. But Luka is about to meet his biggest obstacle yet: the golden girl with a heart of cracked ice. Whom he must save, in order to save himself. ....

Bella Winters is a seventeen year old with little confidence, controlled daily by her anxiety. Bella wants to remain hidden in school but ends up gaining the attention from the school's popular bully, and the school's heart throb all within the same week. A heartwarming tale where Bella Winters endures heartbreak that sends her on a discovery of self love and confidence. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - Do not copy/reproduce or use any of the text in this story.

In the final installment of the hit series Denim Days, Mel and Duncan return to the lake for a week during their summer college for break. Both secretly wonder if there's a spark big enough to re-kindle the flame that was lit two summers ago. Forget the rearview mirror, forward is the only way to go, and Duncan plans the road trip of a lifetime. From the depths of an iron mine, to the Mississippi headwaters, and a brief stay at the U, Mel and Duncan realize the path of love and friendship is filled with twists, turns, and many detours. Still, the two are determined to stay the course, but can they find a way to commit to the journey of more once the trip is over? Fans of the first two books will find themselves quickly drawn into Mel and Duncan's witty banter and tender scenes as the star-crossed pair are given a second chance to grow from friends to lovers.

Mel fell hard for Duncan last summer, and after their first year at college she's looking forward to finding out if the romance has any chance of thriving when they are re-united at their lake houses. But she's surprised when Duncan brings a friend - a female friend - from Florida straining their friendship and dousing the romance in water colder than any Northwood's lake. Again, they are faced with choices about what they mean to each other: are they destined to be merely friends, or can they find their happily ever after? The Summer We Stumbled is the second book in the Denim Days series.

The first installment in a new friends-to-lovers summer romance. Melody and Duncan are best friends who spend every summer vacationing at their families' lake houses in the Northwoods of Minnesota. Their plan for this summer is to have as much fun in the sun as they can before they head off for their first year of college at the U in the fall. Everything changes when Duncan's father announces he's been promoted and the family will be moving to Florida. Secretly, both Mel and Duncan are harboring feelings for each other, but both are holding back. With only one week before the life-long friends are separated by two thousand miles, can the budding romance find a way to blossom?

❝My Autumn, I think you should know that you're my first and only love. Don't you ever forget that. Love always, August❞ After a series of unfortunate events, August is admitted into a hospital. Once he realizes his stay will be longer than expected, he begins writing to Autumn, hoping that at least one person in the world will care. [Highest Rank: #35 in Short Story] [Watty Award Winner 2015 for JustWriteIt!]

When Carly Lukens wanted the perfect senior year, she didn't expect to fall for a jock. Especially an obnoxious one in her AP Psychology class. Drew Rollings. Carly Lukens is top of her class. And very well known throughout school in a great way. Drew Rollings is the star lacrosse player of the school. Also well known but in a horrible way, he's a player on and off of the field. Will Carly get her heart broken by Drew's player ways? Can Drew change himself for the class soon-to-be valedictorian?

For Claudette and Emile Borde, living in the city of Ayres and working on their parents' farm has never been enough. Influenced by stories of the past, in which magic was real and the dragons still lived, the siblings have always dreamed of leaving their city behind and embarking on their own adventures. But as squires training to become full-fledged knights, they must renounce magic, for it was magic that nearly tore the world apart during the old wars. When the carnival comes to the city, Claudette meets Aeonia, and the two become fast friends. But Aeonia is no simple girl playing at fortune telling-she can wield magic, and it's both breathtaking and volatile. Torn between upholding her duty as a squire and keeping a secret for her friend, Claudette must decide where her loyalties lie. Is this the adventure she's always craved, or is she dooming her city and her loved ones by remaining silent? Set in the same world as The Fading Dusk, By the Morning Light is a brand new adventure by author Melissa Giorgio that sets up the third book in the Smoke and Mirrors series.