Brianna Jaxton is a workaholic at best. She never takes vacations and barely sees her family, the persons who motivate her to work so hard. Owning the number 1 magazine in Europe takes alot of time but with a little persuasion from her sister she decides to take a vacation and go home. Arriving back home is not what she expects. With her family giving her the cold shoulder, private jokes that confuse her and not to mention the hot neighbour who is closer to her family than she is, she is in for more than she had bargained. Can Brianna learn to balance priorities or will she risk it all for love?

**A Blue Beard retelling** Based on Charles Perrault's fairytale, this YA Historical Fantasy short story set in Victorian England mixes romance, magic and mystery. After agreeing to an arranged marriage to escape her greedy relatives, 18-year-old heiress Amelia moves into her husband's manor determined to start a new life. But the gothic mansion's forbidding surroundings, the servants' strange demeanour and her husband's mysterious past soon awaken her suspicions. If Amelia truly wants to become the lady of the house, she'll have to discover what secrets lie beyond closed doors and unravel the mystery of the old house's forbidden room. But sometimes secrets are kept for a good reason... HIGHEST RANKING IN HISTORICAL FICTION # 44 Copyright © 2017. All works posted here are the property of EM Castellan. Please do not use without permission. Any duplication or reproduction of all or part of the work without explicit permission by the author is illegal. Cover artist: @seventhstar

When Delilah Martin finds a body in the park after her gym class, she never thought that the murderer would be someone close to her. But as the rest of the day unfolds, so do her suspicions. **** Published on October 14th 2015 Participant in the #WattpadFright contest.