As Clementine Bell has learned, running a successful NYC patisserie is tougher than it looks. Even with training in classical French baking from the best school in the world, getting people to walk through the doors to the Clementhyme Bakery proves much more difficult than drawing millions of viewers to her sensational baking vlogs. With the overdue rent piling up, Clementine's mother has the idea to enter her into a televised baking competition with a staggering $250,000 cash prize. Clementine isn't thrilled with the idea of competing on national television, that is until the producers let slip that her infuriatingly talented pastry school classmate and rival has been invited to participate. Sequestered on set in a partially renovated chateau in southern France, all of Clementine's knowledge of pastry is put to the test, but can this pastry purist outlast her competition to save her bakery in an arena where the culinary arts have become a spectator sport?

Perfect Illusion is the FIRST book in the Perfect series, followed by the soon-to-be released film PERFECT ADDICTION. Published as an ebook/ on kindle ***** When college student Alex Woods agrees to a fake engagement plot to save her parents' company from bankruptcy, the last thing she expects is to fall for the illusion herself. ***** Alex Woods thinks college will be a fresh start, but when her parents announce their business has gone bankrupt, all of her plans come crashing down. The company has been saved by a wealthy business owner, but it comes with a condition: Alex has to pretend to be engaged to his son, Daniel, for the next 3 years. Daniel Kerrington is 100% swoonworthy, but Alex knows that beneath those killer good looks is a poisonous personality, and Daniel has made it clear the hatred is mutual. Though they've been thrown together with the person they each loathe the most, Alex and Daniel have to make their engagement believable. And as it turns out, the line between love and hate really is very, very thin. [[word count: 100,000 - 150,000]] Cover designed by Ren T Book 1 of the Perfect series

,,Und plötzlich zerplatzt die schöne, heile Welt um dich herum, wie eine Seifenblase. Die Realität und alles, was sie mit sich bringt, stürtzt auf dich ein und du hast keine Ahnung, wie du diese Last tragen sollst." Natalia freut sich riesig, als ihr zugetraut wird, die diesjährige Theateraufführung zu übernehmen. Schauspiel ihre größte Leidenschaft. Doch dann bricht sich ihre männliche Haupbesetzung das Bein. Ihre letzte Hoffnung: Damian Sanchez. Alle denken, er ist arrogant und denkt, er wäre zu gut für jeden auf diesem Planeten. Nur Talia bemerkt, auch ohne ich wirklich zu kennen, dass sein einziges Problem die Aufmerksamkeit ist. Nur weiß sie nicht, warum. Die Aufführung wäre das letzte, was er wollen würde. Nur leider droht er in Bio und Englisch durchzufallen. Das ist ihre Chance. Und dann ist da diese Vermistenanzeige: Elena Sanchez. Talia weiß, dass hinter seiner zurückhaltenden Fassade viel mehr steckt. In diesem jungen Mann versteckt sich immer noch ein kleiner, zerbrochener Junge. #16 Jugendliteratur >Teil 2 der Damn...Reihe < •Teil 1: Damn interesting •Erster Teil muss nicht gelesen werden

Popular party girl and high school senior Jessica Stone has a secret: she used to be a nerd - a big one; a goody two-shoes, grade-skipping, all-state spelling bee champ. But she lost the braces, put on some contacts, and applied all her academic genius to studying and imitating the social elite. Now she rules the school from the upper echelon of the high school realm. With her cool new friends and hottest-guy-in-school boyfriend, life's a beach - and that's where she's headed for Spring Break. That is, until her teacher breaks the bad news that she's failing Biology - and her only chance to make up the grade is to throw away the culminating trip of her hard-earned popularity and join the Conservation Club in Panama to save the Golden Frog. Unable to let go of her faded college dreams, Jess finds herself in a foreign country with a new social crew, and one handsome face that stands out as a blast from the past, threatening to ruin her queen bee reputation. Travis Henley may have grown up, but he still likes to play childish games and as payment for retrieving Jess' lost ring from the bottom of a jungle pool, he wants three dates. While Jess does battle with spiders, snakes, wildfires and smart mean girls, she desperately tries to hang on to the last vestiges of her popular existence like the Golden Frog from its webbed toe. But as she starts to care about something more than tanning and texting - a species on the verge of disappearing forever - she may realize the worth of her inner nerd, and the one frog in particular that could be her prince in disguise. Check out the Playlist on Spotify: Kissing Frogs - A Tropical Fairytale and see if you can figure out which songs are from each Character's POV! Status: Completed Highest Rank - #1 Eco / #15 fairy-tales / #41 Humour / #98 Teen Fiction

There are moments when you think life is going one way and a major curveball sends you the complete opposite direction. That's me, standing in the rain, wondering how things went so terribly wrong. What do I need? To hide at my brother's house to lick my wounds. What do I get? My brother's roommate, sexy-as-sin best friend, Carter Kennedy. The cute, adventurous boy who was my teenage crush. The inspiring, irresistible man who will never be mine. But then things get complicated with fun-filled days and pleasure-filled nights. If Carter wasn't the most commitment-phobic person I know, I could consider the cliché of dating my brother's best friend. But he will never fit the husband checklist I made to find the man who will be my world, and I'm not willing to compromise on that. At least, that's the plan. [THE HUSBAND CHECKLIST IS NOW PUBLISHED ON AMAZON AND FREE TO READ IN KINDLE UNLIMITED. ENJOY THESE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS AS A SAMPLE. I HOPE YOU LOVE IT.]

„Du gegen mich.", schlug Jayden vor. „Was kriegt der Gewinner?" „ Wenn ich gewinne, einen Kuss von deiner Schwester. Wenn du gewinnst, meine Maschine." Ich starrte meinen Bruder fassungslos an. „ Adam,-..." Er unterbrach mich. „Geht klar." Was? „Adam, bist du vollkommen bescheuert? Du kannst doch nicht einfach-..." „Keine Angst, Maddy, ich habe noch nie verloren." Mein Bruder küsste mich auf die Stirn und zog seinen Helm an. Jayden zwinkerte mir zu und zog ebenfalls seinen Helm an. Die beiden Jungs setzten sich auf ihre Motorräder und erweckten diese zum Leben. Das Startsignal ertönte. Jayden und Adam fuhren los. Und ich, tja, ich blickte den beiden hinterher und hoffte, dass Adam dieses verdammte Rennen gewinnt.

Halte dich von Caden Jones fern. Das war Harpers wichtigste Regel, Überlebensregel Numero Uno, dreifach mit Rotstift unterstrichen und begleitet von unzähligen Rufzeichen. Jahre war Harper dem berühmt berüchtigten Caden Jones aus dem Weg gegangen und eines Abends schien er ihre einzige Rettung zu sein. Caden Jones war die Regel, die sich selbst gebrochen hatte und mit ihm sollten alle anderen Regeln verschwinden. Hätte Harper gewusst was ihr bevorstand, hätte sie sich in die tanzende Meute gestürzt und sich zertrampeln lassen. Oder sie hätte Caden Jones sagen sollen, dass ihre oberste Regel war sich von ihm fernzuhalten. Dann hätte er sie vielleicht nie um Hilfe gebeten. [pausiert bis meine andere Geschichte fertig ist]