WATTPAD FEATURED NOV 2020 AND OCT 2021 - FROM OUR STARS LIST WATTPAD MULTICULTURAL FEATURED SEP 2022 - AUSTRALIAN WHISPERERS READING LIST It's difficult to save someone who doesn't want saving, particularly when they're lying to you. ... Claudia and Jake Cairns have lost their mother, their home, and their innocence. After surviving a catastrophic bushfire in rural Australia, the 16-year-old twins relocate to Sydney. Forced to move on, Claudia accepts her new life, embracing therapy, school and her new friends. But Jake is less willing to forget. As information about the fire emerges, ghosts from their past reappear, and Jake grows increasingly self-destructive, Claudia realises she only knows half-truths about what actually happened the day smoke rose over the trees and their world caught alight. .... AWARDS: CUPID AWARDS 2021 - 1ST PLACE - MYSTERY THE FLOWER FIELD MINI AWARDS 2021 - 1ST PLACE JAM-BOARD 2022 AWARDS - 2ND PLACE LUNAR AWARDS 2021 - 3RD PLACE - TEEN FIC GOLDEN WRITER AWARDS 2020 - FINALIST - TEEN FIC

FREE STORY WITH EXCLUSIVE CONTENT. This is *not* a Paid Story. Eighteen-year-old hockey prodigy Elliot Wexler has three goals for senior year. One: somehow graduate with a 3.5 GPA. Two: hide his bipolar disorder from his peers. And three: make it into the NHL with no scandals. Piece of cake. What he doesn't expect is to find Lucy, a homeless girl, hiding from the winter frost in his dad's shed. Elliot's busy, complicated life doesn't permit room for error, and falling in love with a girl from a totally different world sounds like the opposite of a good idea. But Elliot can't help but be drawn to Lucy and her elusive ways--even when she seems to vanish from his life non-stop, each time leaving him with a bigger hole in his heart. But Elliot is determined to break down Lucy's barriers. And when he does, he discovers that her life is more complicated--and dangerous--than he could have imagined. With drafting season approaching, and Elliot's fragile mental health deteriorating, he's forced to face a difficult question: Is first love supposed to hurt so much? *** PLEASE DO NOT ADD THIS STORY TO GOODREADS.

When shy bartender Elliot is approached by a handsome stranger on a park bench at midnight, their unlikely attraction unravels everything they know about themselves, and the crime-ridden city around them. *** Elliot Taylor is running out of places to hide. Trapped between a ruthless father, a dead-end job, and a future that feels just out of reach, he spends his nights on park benches clinging to one goal: get into college and get out for good. What he doesn't plan on is Noah Black. Vice President of the Stray Dogs Motorcycle Club. Infamous. Observant. Relentless. Far too charming for a man with a reputation for violence, and determined to pry into wounds Elliot would rather pretend don't exist. Through chance encounters and sleepless nights, the two can't seem to avoid each other. But Noah's life comes with complications: a motorcycle club under pressure, threats closing in, and loyalties that crumble when tested. As Elliot drifts deeper into Noah's current, he cannot help but realize how dangerously close he's falling -- even as deadly secrets threaten to unravel everything they've fought so hard for. Soon, Elliot must face a choice: keep chasing the life he's always dreamed of, or confront the truths that could shatter everything he knows... including his past, his heart, and the man who refuses to let him go.

When dynamic duo Owen Watson and Athena Calimeris head off to college, things sailed as smoothly as a baby's bottom yet there are things that even they cannot stop from happening. Being paraplegic sure has quite a long list of downsides; more so when Owen is a college freshman far away from home. Adjusting isn't quite as easy as the university pamphlets say they are and newer obstacles kept going in the way of Owen's ambitions. Athena, on the other hand, was starting fresh. Finally freed from her former trauma caused by an unforeseen event in the past, she was ecstatic to finally thrive in college with a new life on a new campus with her beloved, angsty boyfriend, Owen. The future looks bright for this former child prodigy but how sure is she that everything will stay the same? -----Book 2 of As I Fell! Go ahead and check it out before reading!-----

BOOK ONE in the Stolen mental health series. --- "You're kinda weird," she says after a minute, smiling softly as she takes a step towards the fiction section, "it's cute." She possesses a type of attraction that goes overlooked at first, a beauty that makes you take a second glance at her on the streets. He was entranced by this, but he couldn't tell her. Mara Gray is an enigma. The first you see of her will also be the last. The first thing to be noticed by Elias James as she explodes through the doors of the public library he works at, singing recklessly, making him wish he were deaf. Elias James had his life flipped upside down two years ago and he hasn't spoken since. Not because he doesn't want to, simply, a defense mechanism he adapted. The last sound to leave his lips was a scream, and then he was speechless. --- This is the story of Bipolar Disorder and the aftermath of Sexual Assault, between two kids that find each other in the chaos of it all. #1 in Nightmare 2/17/2021 #1 in Third Person 2/24/2021 #1 in Awareness 6/15/2021 #5 in BoyxGirl 11/9/2021 #1 in Slowburn 12/3/2021

|the true story of a girl falling apart a boy falling for her| Crystal Monroe is falling apart at the seams, being torn to shreds by the picture-perfect, abusive boyfriend she has surrendered herself to. Ryan Falls is trying to be a better man without letting his past catch up with him, as he fights his demons single-handed. Literally. Maybe they can catch each other before it's too late. Because they're both falling. Crystal is falling off the edge, and Ryan is falling for her.

"I'm not feisty I just don't care for people's shit." Adira Bowman is an ex- mind-controlled assassin who got herself captured by a secret all-boys spy agency. The director of the agency now wants her to become an agent, put her skills to use and have her train among his ragtag crew of smirking rebels scarred with tragedy, fighting mafia bosses and tracking master assassins. And he has sent a very crafty agent her age to recruit her. Soon Adira stumbles into a dark agency secret; the hushed tragedy of a forbidden romance. She's put on a demonic terrorism case with a group of boys who only have spying in common. And the boy who recruited her originally, well, he might just actually be able to get her to finally forgive herself for everything she has ever done. Amidst tracing the origins of nuclear bombs and a stopping a terrorist attack, feelings may be kindled and rekindled... Will Adira persist insisting that she deserves to be punished, or will she get caught up in a world of spying, lying, hiding, befriending, forgiving and...loving?

Orphic (adj.) mysterious and entrancing; beyond ordinary understanding.