Valerie Mitchell has been different for all her life. While girls played with barbies and went shopping with their moms, she would sit up in her tree house and compose songs. Even at the young age of 8. Now, when she's 17, she is still different. People think she's weird. They walk right past her like she doesn't exist or walk as far away from her as possible, like she was some disease. When Drew Grey moves to Fletcherstone High at the beginning of senior year, he finds that him and Valerie have much more in common than meets the eye. But will Valerie let another boy in after what happened with her last boyfriend? Will the past catch up with her and make her life even more miserable than it already is? Read to find out.

Sometimes the darkness just has a tendency to consume you with secrets and lies. It pulls you down into the depths of itself and further away from the happiness and sunshine you once possessed. That’s pretty much what happened to me. First there’s Jase. He’s my best friend. If anything, he’s been the only life preserver I have to keep my afloat. Without him, I’d be nothing but consumed by darkness. Then there’s Lyss. She’s my other best friend. I love her to death, really. She’s amazing. After her is Hunter. He’s my boyfriend. He has a secret, though. A secret that has forced me to lie to everyone, even Lyss and Jase. Keeping the secret and lying to them has only brought me further into the dark. It spawned my own secrets and lies. My life changed from being something that I loved to dreading waking up every day. It also doesn’t help that I suffer depression. Now I’m fighting just to make it through. It’s getting harder and harder every day, and it doesn’t help that I’m practically drowning in all of the secrets and lies that have become a part of my life. But, what can I do? I guess we’ll have to wait and find out, and hope that I survive. *The only reason this is rated R is because of the language. It drops the F-bomb a lot...*

March 16, 2017. The midst of World War 3. A fifteen-year-old war nurse from Westminster, Maryland, is shipped to London, England, to take care of the wounded and ill. Filled with fear and despair, the young nurse wants nothing more than to get out. That is, until she meets a young soldier wounded in battle, being held together by a few stitches and some gauze. Despite the dirt and dried blood covering his skin and messy hair, the stitches holding together his split lip, and the ugly wound leftover from his life-saving lung transplant, the young nurse finds comfort in the friendship of this boy. Her mistake was evident too soon, falling for a patient. Patients are never around for long, and once they’re gone, they’re gone. Will the war keep them apart, or will the two be strong enough to find their way back to each other against all odds? Author's Note: I'm considering turning this into a novel in the future Also, it was inspired by the song With Me by Sum 41. Cover Credit: image from xbeatbox.com fireworks texture from eightiseven.com

All Ash Mara wants is to get her new Camaro, and her job as an undercover actress is exactly how she's going to get it. People will pay almost anything to have someone they love brought to them, whether it be for a drug intervention, surprise party, or even just a prank. It doesn't matter to the business Ash works for, as long as they get paid and don't have to do anything illegal. When two teens around Ash's age come in and offer to pay her 700 dollars to track down a senior named Aidan Fosco, Ash can't say no. Despite the warnings from her friends Persephone and Brady, Ash takes the job and does whatever it takes to lure in Aidan and get her pay. Luring in a guy with trust issues isn't always the easiest thing, but as soon as Ash figures out what he's hiding, everything seems to come crashing down around her. When did this become worth 700 dollars? She wouldn't even have done this if someone had offered her five brand new Camaros. Too bad it's too late. The damage is done. Her life is on the line. And though Aidan has become the very thing she hates, she has to depend on him to keep her safe.

Second book in the Trust Me trilogy. (This description is a spoiler if you haven't read the entirety of Trust Me yet) After finding out about the plot for her murder and that her boyfriend is really a fallen angel, Ash Mara feels as if her mind is unraveling. There are so many questions left unanswered, so many things that make her feel less than out of control of her life, and so much driving her insane. She's not sure she's able to handle it. Aidan is determined to prove that Samantha, Evan, and Lexa have the wrong girl. He's positive that Ash isn't who they think she is, which is why he takes Ash with him on a road trip to find her father. Something in her family's past will determine her future, and whether or not it will cease to exist. Safety is still out of reach with attacks on her life coming at every angle, threatening to stop her before she can even defend herself. It's all too much for her to handle--the rules keeping her and Aidan apart, the murder attempts, the mind games--to the point where she's not sure she wants any of it anymore. And once a very important trust is broken, she's left wide open and vulnerable, with protection being the last thing she's capable of.

Fated to love. Fated to break. Fated to die. As a loner his entire life, Shay Pearce feels abandoned and left for dead. Being stabbed in the back more times than he could possibly count has left his trust broken beyond repair. However, all of that threatens to change the moment he meets Avalon. She's flawless, friendly, and incredibly talented at breaking through Shay's defenses (which drives him absolutely insane). But there's something alluring about her upbeat attitude and playful sense of humor, and before he can stop himself, he's falling for her. When things take a turn for the worst, Shay discovers more about his world than he could've imagined in his wildest dreams. There's far more to his existence than meets the eye. He knows one thing for sure: he has to fight the evil that haunts him. It's the only way to save Avalon and finally get the vengeance that was always his. But some things were meant to be set in stone. If the course of fate cannot be altered, can Shay be saved... ...from himself? Winner of MissLiterati.com's first annual Story of the Year contest!

As far as anyone is concerned, there's nothing wrong with Devin Munroe. She has a great family, an adorable boyfriend, and a sweet, caring best friend to make her life perfect. But there's something dark hiding in the shadows that perpetually throws Devin farther away from a genuine smile. She's not sure how to get back out of the hole. When her best friend, Jase, is finally let in on the secret, she's sure she has a life preserver to keep her afloat. But the events that continue to spiral Devin further into the dark are beyond even his control. All he can do is fight hard to help his best friend through the darkest points in her life and protect her from the danger that seems to await her every day. Despite her fighting to stay afloat, nothing can prepare Devin for the shattering event that rocks her world. She's not sure whether to keep trying, or to finally give up and just sink... From the author of Collide comes a novel about a terrifying journey that many of us hope to never go