"We could be more than just friends, Soph." • • • He was a player with the brain of a genius. She was his best friend, the only one who could resist his charm. And yet... - Hold on to your panties, because a genius is loose.

Every half century in a small little town hidden in the woods, a beast comes out from the forest to claim his bride on the night of an eclipse. The people of call this phenomenon "the taking". This beast is said to be very dangerous. It roams door to door searching for the woman whose being calls to his animal instincts. He will kill, mutilate and destroy everything in his path until he finds his bride. In the past, the townsmen have tried to hunt the creature and kill him before they can steal one of their marriageable daughters, but the beast does not hunt alone. He has followers among the shadows to make sure his goal is accomplished. Once he finds his bride, he carries her back to the forest where she is never seen or heard from again. Celeste believes this so-called "legend" is just some scary fairytale her grandmother made up to scare her. But was she ever wrong when a pair of moonlit eyes stared straight at her through her bedroom window and entered her room. Next thing she knew, she was being carried out the house and into the woods by a half-naked man who called her his. Who would have thought? Grandma wasn't crazy after all. Young Adult novel. Paranormal/Comedy-Romance @2014

1st book in the Saviour Trilogy AH *** Bella Swan is no stranger when it comes to abuse. It's all she's had since her sixth birthday. When Bella's parents die, she is left to the Blacks, who are old family friends. Soon, the family is split down the middle, and her guardians take a liking to using her as their personal slave. Bella doesn't believe she'll ever escape. But when she's sent to Forks High, everything changes. Bella meets the all-famous Edward Cullen, and desperately wants to protect him from her world of abuse, and the Blacks. But something about him lures Bella in, and soon, she spys her chance at escape. Caught up in the middle of abuse, protection and love, can Bella sort out her emotions before it's too late to save herself, and everyone she cares about?