What happens when you put 2 real people in a fictional situation and let them respond as they naturally would? Well, in this case, The Unexpected happens. This is the true love story that never happened, with genuine dialogue and communication that unfolded between 2 friends. Elle is a journalist in Toronto, stuck under the controlling nature of her overbearing editor. Jack is a Sgt. in Britain's Royal Air Force who meets her when she's forced into writing a series about online dating. As they begin to communicate, they're both fully confident that their mutual reluctance for a relationship is safe because of their distance and circumstances. That is until, unexpectedly, they are made to deal with the reality of the relationship they've created when they find themselves thrown together in the middle of a war zone. Eventually, they begin to navigate the complicated nature of their lives as they head towards an ending neither of them ever wanted or saw coming. ***This story is fictional any comments or opinions given within are fictional. Any resemblance, to real events and to any people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

On a bitterly cold January evening, Tracy Ellis went for a jog along Chicago's snowy lakefront and disappeared. Her body is discovered days later, her beautiful face bashed in with a rock. Police determine her brutal death to be a mugging gone wrong and drop the matter into their cold case files. Over a year later, Tracy's sister, Sondra, still can't come to grips with what happened. She throws herself into her work as a documentary filmmaker to try and forget the cruelty of her sister's death. However, a chance encounter with a man from Tracy's past rips the wound open and sends Sondra on a desperate search for answers about the secrets from her sister's life that may have led to her death. As Sondra struggles to uncover what happened to Tracy, she's launched into a tangled web of deceit and danger that put her on a collision course with life and death...

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.