Book One of the 1st Era: "No Please!" My mother screams. "We will give you whatever you want. Please do not kill them!" She wails out with tears glistened face. I stood there listening to what was happening. My parents and sister didn't acknowledge me, I was behind them. The tall muscular guy smirks, gazing at me, from head to toe. "I want that daughter of yours to belong to me!" Trigger warning: Discusses rape and abuse.

After escaping a stalled elevator into a zombie apocalypse, Emily must learn how to trust people again or risk losing everything in this terrifying world. ***** For Emily, every day of the last two years have been a blur. She keeps her head down, takes her college courses online, and only goes out to work at her mandatory internship. But all that changes on the day the office elevator breaks down, leaving her trapped when the screams begin. And when the doors finally open, revealing a dystopian world ruined by bloody teeth and disease, Emily is launched into a terrifying run for her life, caught between the strangers she's not sure she can trust and the man-eating monsters that hunger for her flesh. Now she must learn not only how to survive in this new and dangerous world, but also how to overcome her own inner demons before they cost her something more precious than her life. [[Wattys' Shortlist]] [[Promoted by AMC]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: The story contains some gore, violence, strong language, and dark themes. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

This is a parody of Forgetting Love (Dublin Sisters#2.5) by hayatkhan07 and is being published after receiving consent from the author. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner.

All Crystal wants is to have her happily ever after, but it proves to be next to impossible with Liam Brooks always there to block her path to finding true love. ***** As teenagers, Crystal and Liam hated one another, and not because they were truly as opposite as two people could be. She saw him as an arrogant, obnoxious evil jerk who stole her first kiss, when all he had truly done was tried to be her knight in shining armor and gotten nothing but a knock over the head in return. Somewhere along the way, that hate turned to love, however, it wasn't enough. Both were left devastated when their relationship was torn apart. Now, thirteen years have passed. Will Crystal and Liam be able to overcome their past and get a second shot at happily ever after? [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]]