When a spark lights between a commitment-phobic playboy and an emotionally-challenged Ph.D. student, will love or lust win out? ****** There's something happening between Jay and Elias, opposites who find themselves together often after their best friends start dating. First begins a playful push and pull, but the two can't play games for long before desire wins out. Jay just wants sex and Elias wants to date, but neither will admit they're in love. Who will win the battle between lust and love? [SAMPLE. Full story on Radish Fiction under title His Almost Boyfriend.] [Spin-off to Our Strange Love but can be read alone, before, or after]

Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

Shawna Roberts is the girl that every guy turns to when they need a fake date, a fake girlfriend, a fake fling to make some other girl jealous, a fake couple photo to send to their parents... Shawna's pretty much seen it all. But no matter what they pay her for, everything she does has one common factor: it's all fake. That doesn't make being their paid girl much easier, though. Adam Ferrell is the campus heartthrob with the appearance of a god, an ego the size of Canada, and worshiped by everyone to monumentally ridiculous proportions. In Shawna's mind, it's a miracle his head fits through his shirt every morning. Yet despite their instant dislike for one another, Adam and Shawna each need what the other can offer. When Adam unexpectedly pushes into Shawna's life with a business deal, she's torn between her feelings and her sense of duty, which protects a secret she has kept for years, from even those closest to her. And as the two begrudgingly get to know each other, masks start slipping and secrets come spilling out, forcing each of them to confront some of their darkest moments and deepest fears.