"It is your choice," he said, stepping so close to me that our lips were almost touching. "Either do what I say - or get another job." My heart stood still as I gazed up into his deep, dark, dangerous eyes... In a world where women's only role in life is to sit at home and look pretty, Lilly is determined to fight for her freedom. There's only one problem: a powerful man blocking her way.

In a Futurist-Victorian London, Ex-Carnie Victor Hart makes his living as a dinner party entertainer and mountebank, using the skills taught to him by his Romani mother – the Patterns. When tragedy strikes a wealthy friend, Victor Hart puts his skills to use in an alternative manner. This Steampunk London has its fair share of psychos, sickos, and sadists, and it takes a special kind of mind to hunt them. Victor sees human behaviour in a way few others can understand but only as an outsider; certain parts of his humanity are missing and that disturbs him. As he solves each seemingly unrelated case, a dark pattern slowly begins to reveal itself threatening the heart of the British Empire and even what we feel makes us human. A Steampunk-detective-noir, darker than most, the first volume features four thrilling cases; the first novel in a Duology.

This is the Sequel to The Nerds Secret! Please read that before you read this book as you may find various situations in the book confusing! My name is Olivia Evans and from the age of 7 on-wards me and my two best friends, Charlie Brooks and Jordan Miller have had a dream, a dream to become a spy. Our dreams came true because at the age of 7 Charlie and Jordan's mother (not blood related) gave up her job as leader of SIO and passed it down to us three. The SIO is the Secret, Intelligence, Organisation and from the age of seven on-wards all three of us were taught ,more than 8 languages, highly trained in tae kwon do, karate, mixed martial arts and judo. It might seem a bit crazy but we also learnt to shoot a gun, throw a knife, disarm a bomb and track anyone or anything. Now we are the three best agents in the United States of America and we have been set a mission. But this mission is not any old mission. This very Mission determines whether we are really ready or not to become Superiors (A.K.A: Leaders of the Spy service). And on this mission I will come across many obstacles. Love, guilt, secrets and lies. My agility will be tested to its limit but most importantly I will be going undercover... In a high school... As a nerd... (This Story Contains Triggering. Please do not read if this affects you.)

Highest Rank #1 in Action "I can't tell anyone how I was kidnapped and raped. How I was used and abused. I certainly can't tell anyone how I learnt to fight so that I could protect myself." Mia Brooks wasn't your ordinary teenage girl. She is a teenage girl with no family. After being left alone on the streets of North Carolina she was finally found and taken into an Orphanage. She started to attend school and made 2 best friends, Emma and Dylan. At school she get's picked on and bullied. She wears baggy clothes and huge glasses. But that's not the real Mia Brooks. The real Mia Brooks fights. Nobody knows Mia's full story or the real reason she fights. But what happens when Mr. Bad Boy enters the picture. Does he have a secret too? Aaron Miller is the schools number one bad boy and bully to Mia. He's known for getting into fights and skipping school. Nobody knows why he does it but when he gets close to Mia will he spill the beans or not? Read to Find out !

As the only daughter to one of the most powerful Mafia families, Shay has sought to figure out her own path despite the overbearing pressures from her Family. After a family dispute leads to Shay and her mother to go into hiding, Shay attends Elite academy--her own perfect Hell. With an incredibly awful (or ingenious) disguise, Shay's new identity is going well until Jacob Smith shows out of nowhere. Not only does he seem to know every right button to push, but he also seems to know everything about her. Shay's seemingly normal school life explodes with a new set of problems. Old and new enemies are coming for her and she needs to choose whether she will carry the Ricca name. Goodbye Nerd Disguise, hello old identity, old life, old friends, and new enemies. It's the Family business, where plotting someone's assassination is just part of the daily duty. (Unedited first draft) FYI title may be misleading at first.

***The wrong girl is sometimes The Right One.*** Charlotte Samuels thought she'd be stuck waiting tables at Marlow's until all her debts are paid off-in about ten thousand years or so. She definitely didn't expect a marriage proposal from the arrogant Brandon Maxfield who was blackmailed by his father to make her his wife if he didn't want his least favorite cousin to run Maxfield Industries. Charlotte's instinct was to say HELL NO! but she's stumped by a few obstacles: 1.) His old man Martin Maxfield is dear to her heart and has been recently deteriorating in health. 2.) She gets a million dollars if she stays married to Brandon for a year. 3.) She would rather like the opportunity to teach the attractive but awfully rude man a few lessons he didn't think he needed from a 'teenage gold-digger' which was his term of endearment for her on their first date-er, business meeting. So what's a girl got to do, right? Sure, she's young and a little rough around the edges but there's something her would-be husband didn't know about her yet-she's nothing like he ever expected. Thrust into the glitzy world a standard-issue Mrs. Maxfield would fit perfectly and rule with impeccable social grace, Charlotte will either have to force herself into the mold or break free of it, risking what little she has left for everything that she can gain. *** Copyright © 2014 by Nina Tippett. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Nina Tippett. This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Images, music and videos used in the cover art and any of the multimedia content posted in this story are the sole property of their respective owners.