Laurie September is starting to accept her life will always have a missing puzzle that is her father when he mysteriously shows up with a pressing matter: she will die in the next few days unless she does what he tells to do. ********** Laurie has never met her father and her mother and family rarely talk about him, her grandparents even go as far as claiming to have never met the man who impregnated their daughter. At 16 years and tired of fighting with her mother about a man who could careless she's alive, Laurie accepts it is perhaps for the best she doesn't know who he is. Laurie finds out, on a random weekend, that not knowing about the man who had removed himself from her life was the best thing he could do for her, up to that point in her life. Because upon his arrival, Laurie will be faced with some disturbing truths not only about her parentage but her entire existence and the gruesome act she will have to carry out if she intends on having a normal human life. ---------------------------------- I hope this is not too terrible as a blurb!

The EKG flatlining. Time of death: 3:30pm. •°•°•°• I managed a smile then. "Great. What time do we have this deal?" Still holding onto my hand, he cast his gaze to the black android watch around his wrist. "Right," he drawled. "Now. 3:30pm on the dot." •°•°•°• The day things went from bad to worse for Cleo Petrakovski was the day her mom walked out the door and out her family's lives. For good. Cleo and her brother, Dante, after years of abuse at the hands of their father, vowed to find a way out. For Cleo, that meant college. The farthest one from home. She could get a loan, scholarship, whatever. Whatever it took to get her out of there. But the world comes to a standstill the moment Dante dies. With her failing grades going even more downhill and barely pulling through to senior year, Cleo puts herself in a situation where she has to find a tutor before her first week runs out. One that'll guide her through her finals if she's ever going to graduate. What she doesn't expect though, is a deal with Brent, "the pest", Lockwood. A deal in which he'd be her tutor in exchange for . . . her. Will Cleo be able to scale through the stress of senior year stuck between school work, an unlikely deal and mutual feelings for her ex?

Jospeh Capurso has always dreamt of a fresh start ever since immigrating from Italy to the United Stated when he was a young boy. It's difficult to start anew with a tragic past and hovering regrets. Nevertheless, Joseph continues to adapt the best he can to his different life in America. With his sketch pad and charcoal pencil, The Bronx is his biggest inspiration for becoming an Architecture. If it weren't for his unforgiving father breathing down his neck practically every second, he could move on with his life. But with family to protect and support,his dream of becoming a architecture remains faint. Louise Decker, a bright, inquisitive writer believes she's destined for more than working under the nose of her cold step father. She has big dreams of becoming a war correspondent and journalist just like her biggest role model Peggy Hull. It's hard to follow her dreams when society expects her to follow the stereotypical norms of a housewife. Louise yearns for more out of life rather than staying at home to raise children and watch over the house. Louise wants to share and explore the undiscovered stories in which the world holds so deeply. On the very day Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan, Jospeh and Louise's world collide forming an undeniable bond. Even though both come from different wealth classes. The two who are still so young and innocent are forced to open their eyes to a cruel reality of their devastating world. A world war is no place for two innocent people longing to follow their dreams. Things get even more complicated when they're both forced to go on an unpredictable journey to find hidden treasure to just keep the people they love alive. After all the two would go through thick and thin just to keep their loved ones safe. They'd stick up for each other From Dusk Till Dawn.

Bronwyn Larson has spent her whole life not depending on her mother, a constantly recovering addict, until the moment her life was literally torn apart when an EF4 tornado ripped through their trailer park and her mom is found dead, miles away after the storm. Suddenly, her estranged father is a part of her life, a prominent state senator who's been absent since Bronwyn was born, a product of her parents' secretive affair. After living alone with her mother in a trailer for seventeen years, Bronwyn now has a stepmother and four new siblings, including an older brother and sister who seem skeptical, if not actually disproving, of Bronwyn living with them. While staying with them in their vacation lake house an hour away from what she called home, Bronwyn is hit with the bombshell that her mother's death is being treated as suspicious, with injuries inconsistent of being killed during the tornado. Estranged from everyone she knows, except her estranged new family, Bronwyn doesn't know who trust or who to believe about her mother's death. Torn between her life as the daughter of a single drug addict and the middle child of a well-respected senator, all while learning more about the mother she thought she knew, Bronwyn is forced to navigate through this new unfamiliar life alone, with this gut feeling she has. That her mother's killer isn't unfamiliar. 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐃 𝐌𝐀𝐘 18th 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐏𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒 Cover designed by Ashley Bandy

" 'When are you going to tell them, Lucy?' " My father screams at my mother. " 'There not ready... I can't tell them now.'" My mother says with hesitation. " 'What are you doing?!? You have to tell them sometime. They are bound to find out sooner or later.' " My father said while putting his hand on my mother's shoulder. ' "Your right." ' My mother sighs. Normal life was all Stacy wanted. A life with her mother Lucy, her sister Regina, and her father Develin Dangerfield. One day the family got a letter in the mail saying that Develin Dangerfield wasn't her real father! Will she ever meet her real father? Why has her family been lying to her? Will she ever live a normal life after knowing her family been lying to her? Recommended for ages 13-18 + Contests won: 🥇 1st Place Action Category- The Cupid Awards 2021 (53-60) Points 🥉 3rd Place New Adult Category - The Chocolate Hearts Awards 2021 (90/100) Points -Ranked #11 in real story 𝕊𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕥 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 - ℭ𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔢 𝕲𝖊𝖓𝖗𝖊𝖘 -𝔐𝔶𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔶 -𝔇𝔞𝔡𝔡𝔶 ℑ𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔢𝔰 -𝔗𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔉𝔦𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 -𝔄𝔠𝔱𝔬𝔫 -𝔉𝔞𝔫𝔣𝔦𝔠 -𝔄𝔲𝔱𝔬𝔟𝔦𝔬𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔭𝔥y

There were lots of sirens on the morning of October the eighth, enough to unsettle the best of us; and definitely enough to bring the town of Santasport to life. Three cars were parked outside: one was a big white ambulance and the other smaller ones were checked police cars. The paramedics had asked our examiner to get all of us out while they dealt with the body. One of them looked at me- his huge eyes appearing to gaze into my very soul. The look in his pupils confirmed what I already knew- Asa Griffith Jericho was gone. His reign of terror over me had finally ended. He was first to die, but not the last. ~*~* ___ Warning: This book contains themes of murder, depression and bullying. (all in moderation). 1st PLACE WINNER OF THE '𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵' 2020! 2nd PLACE WINNER OF '𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴' 2021! WINNER of BEST OPENING and 2nd PLACE WINNER OF THE 'Strawberry Milkshake Awards' 2021! DISCLAIMER: The picture used in the cover is in no way my property, the model is Abdule Niang. If you know the name of the photographer please just DM so I can credit them. Thanks.

Imagine the second you're born, a consultant removes you from your mother's grasp and runs a battery of genetic and physiological tests on you. Thirty minutes later they give you a score out of one hundred which denotes your level of perfection. If your score is above eighty and you work hard to maintain that score you will have a charmed life; well fed, well-rewarded, spoiled. But fall below eighty and you're labelled Flawed, and life will not be so kind. Hannah is adopted by a Flawed family when her birth parents choose their social standing over their daughter and endures a life of struggle, hunger and service. One day Hannah is escorted to the regional government office and told that the Consultant who delivered her, who labelled her Flawed got it wrong! Now, she is being relocated back to her birth parents, to live as one of the Ninety-Five- all medically and legally judged as perfect. Entering this new life Hannah has an impossible decision to make which puts not only hers, but the lives of everyone she cares about at great risk. "The Numbered- where no one wants to be number one". Authors notes: -This is a first draft of my story and will be edited soon. -2013 Began writing Flawed -2015 Watty Winner/ Named changed to The Numbered -2016 Completed The Numbered -2019 Optioned by eOne for development into a TV show.