"So tell me, what's worse? Being predetermined to become a monster or choosing to become a monster?" His onyx eyes pierced mine, wicked wisdom showing in the pools of darkness. I closed my eyes, not being able to bear the blaringly, obvious truth. I turned my head to the side, wishing for nothing more than for him to let go of me, to step back and let me breathe, let me wallow in my denial. But, he wasn't the type to show mercy. Heat radiated off of his body, as I sensed him lean closer to whisper mockingly in my ear. "That's what I thought." ********************************************************************************* Arie Finnigan, since she was a little girl, has had the unique ability to read people. Her ability is so extremely accurate that people actually believe she can read minds. At the age of eighteen, just starting college, she is enlisted by the FBI to help solve crimes. Arie's reputation skyrockets as word spreads of her ability to solve horrific and impossible crimes. However, this all changes when a group of mental patients break out of an asylum and go on a rampage, killing 55 people in cold blood. A widespread paranoia infects the United States, as government officials try to maintain peace. In order to calm the fear inflicting its citizens, the government, in accordance with the FBI, decides to send away anyone who has a mental illness to the nearest mental hospital. But, it's not just the mentally ill being sent away across the country. Anyone, who has the ability to think like or understand these clinically insane people, is taken as well. Including, Arie. Arie is soon thrust into a world where light and darkness mix and right and wrong have no meaning. Her internal struggle over the question of her sanity is only heightened when her roommate decides to make it his mission to prove her to be just as crazy as everyone else there. So what happens when you discover the darkness within? Highest ranking: #194 ©cynical-romantic

She stopped writing in her black, leather-bound book to look up at me inquiringly. "What do you mean you were addicted to him?" I lounged back against the black, leather seat, my mouth curving into a bitter smile. My eyes finally met hers. "I mean I became addicted to him, just like I was addicted to smoking. Funny isn't it? I never thought grey eyes and a wicked grin could be a drug." ********************************************* Winter Jones is a twenty-year-old girl with a smoking addiction. Her tendency to run from her past only keeps her running towards packs and packs cigarettes. Regardless of the constant nagging from people to quit the disgusting addiction, she continues to destroy her lungs, not caring what the consequences may be. Winter is a firm believer that addictions, no matter what they may be, are a natural part of life. The only way to stop one addiction is to start another. And that's exactly what happens. In a mere month, Winter ends up trading cigarettes for pearly white smiles; grey, thick smoke for grey, sparkling eyes; blackened lungs for pounding hearts. In the end, Winter was right. The only way to get rid of one addiction is to get hooked on another. But, she definitely didn't expect Aiden Camry to become the fire burning her from the inside out. ©cynical-romantic

"I need you to help me be a good guy," he said bluntly, blue eyes piercing my questioning gaze. And that's when I started laughing hysterically. I mean the whole laughing silently, mouth wide open, clapping like a retarded seal. And then I saw the dead serious look he had on his face. My jaw dropped in shock. "You're serious?" The glare he gave me right then was my answer. Holy crappers, Hilton's resident bad boy wants to be a good guy. *********************************************************************************************** Lyla Matherson lives in a town where being the bad boy or dating the bad boy is the way to roll. In the small town of Hilton, the boys and girls experience what Lyla calls "the baddies". The guys all want to be the bad boy. The girls want to date or "change" the bad boy, like in the cliché romance novels. And Lyla, well Lyla wants them all to go straight down to hell. She hates the bad boy epidemic and takes pride in literally being the only girl not taking part in the bad boy fever. You can imagine her surprise when Hilton's first bad boy, the one who claimed the title before the epidemic spread, asks her to help him become the good guy. Apparently, leather jackets and a hot 'n cold attitude just aren't cutting it for Nathaniel Avery. In a tale of where bad is good, what happens when two students defy all odds to put good back in style? Join Lyla & Nathaniel in this un-cliché story of when the bad boy turned good and find out. ©cynical-romantic Highest rank: #46 in Humor

❝Why do you have a tongue piercing?❞ I asked, observing the other piercings he had and the designs inked on his skin. I'd never seen so much work done on one person before. ❝What's the purpose?❞ A playful grin quirked on to his lips, challenging me. ❝Would you rather I tell you or show you its purpose?❞ ♡♡♡♡ Set in the years 1987-1993 At nineteen-years-old, Sophia Álvarez has everything a girl her age could ever want. A trustworthy best friend, high markings in her college classes, and a loving family. Everything in her world is calm and full of structure. She's content with what the universe has served her until one fateful night causes her to cross paths with a mysterious man. After only one interaction with the tattooed and mean-spirited college senior, Bryce Matthews, Sophia's life suddenly changes from being calm to being chaotic. Their love is just as undeniable as it is dangerous. He's everything she shouldn't want. In the end, it's their differences that charge their relationship, adding fuel to the fire and giving them a reason to fight for their love. But when dark pasts, obsessive exes, and deceptive friends threaten their relationship and their lives, will Sophia draw the line and say enough is enough or will she stick around for the long haul? ♡♡♡♡ HIGHEST RANKING: #1 in Diverse Lit 1/3/19 #2 in Teen Fiction 11/13/18 #1 in Completed #9 in ChickLit 11/18/18 #1 in Crime

Soren McKinin; the disappointment of the family, the child his parents wished did not belong to them, the type fathers warned their daughters not to date. Anger issues, a heartless brute that got into fights and saw the world as dark grey, helpless and pointless lump of rock. He was incapable of happiness, of love. So Soren would fall, he'd fall unnoticed and unwanted. He would fall just like snow. [Book 1 of the Flammable Hearts series] - # winner of the "Best Bad Boy" Award "It awakens feelings in you that you never knew you could feel." PUBLISHED FULLY ON WATTPAD

highest ranking - #21 in fantasy! and i'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, i'd find you and i'd choose you. - in which a man with a threatening past meets the love of his life and along the way faces a dark danger that will tear their world's apart. cover by me!

"When it was dark, she always carried the sun in her hand for them." ~ This is the story of two criminal brothers and the woman who brought them to their ruin.

Ghost, demon, an exceptionally well trained magician? Daisy didn't know what he was, or how he managed to disappear and reappear on command, but the one thing she did know was that Peter wasn't going to leave her alone. Not until he got what he wanted. What he wanted, however, was another thing she was still trying desperately to figure out. From constant stalking, to skipping class, to being forced to make tough decisions, Daisy's world was turned upside down the minute Peter stepped into it. And he has no plans of ever stepping out.

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