As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams? ***** Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

|COMPLETED| 'You can't hate me, unless you once loved me.' After a teenager wounds up dead on her birthday, her estranged relationship with the school that glorified her comes to light. Now her grieving friends must come together to save her legacy, and maybe rekindle old friendships. How difficult can that be when what killed her breathes among them? This may be first death but is certainly not the last. YA thriller

FIRST PUBLISHED: 8/6/2018 RE-WRITTEN (PLOT): 13/3/2019 Ongoing On New Year's Eve, the entire Madesville Town is celebrating when the Anderson family is found dead. Roe saw a strange man leave the site of crime that does not hold the bodies of the family members but of dead birds. To lighten the mood, Roe and her friends plan a short trip to a nearby town - Wallflower's Deck which goes horribly wrong when two of her friends end in a hospital and one ends up missing. With guilt getting heavier, she decides to take the matter in her hands. Little does she know the Deck isn't all about rich human history, it is a home to Bhuraders - species capable of shifting into birds. When they find about Roe, they more than just desire to possess her for a reason unknown to her. There's more to her more than she realizes, and the roots run back to her family - the people she has been trying to keep away from this supernatural world. ----------- Awards: 1st place Mid Year Awards 2018 1st place Blue Rose Awards 2018 Top 30 Vampire/Werewolf/paranormal| Earnesty Writers Awards Featured in the 'The Conjuring' Reading list on the official page of @YA -------------- Coverdesign by @taintedmiracle