"It is your choice," he said, stepping so close to me that our lips were almost touching. "Either do what I say - or get another job." My heart stood still as I gazed up into his deep, dark, dangerous eyes... In a world where women's only role in life is to sit at home and look pretty, Lilly is determined to fight for her freedom. There's only one problem: a powerful man blocking her way.

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.

He lit his cigarette, I lit nothing. He drank alcohol, I drank water. He smirked, I smiled. He didn't love me, I didn't love him. He and I together wouldn't last a day. And then the game started... He said he found me intriguing, unique, and interesting because I didn't swoon over him. "You and me Grey, let's play a game. We'll date and in three months time I promise you will fall for me. When you fall in love with me between that time span, I win. If in any way you were to win I'll give up all the alcohol, cigarettes, and player ways." It was a game I wasn't willing to lose, but all games had accidents and consequences. It takes a broken heart to know how to break a heart.

Book # 1 in the SCENT TRILOGY series (♛ POPULAR ROMANCE WINNER - THE FICTION AWARDS ♛) ❃❉✦❉❃ ❝A scintillatingly steamy thriller romance trilogy with a riveting storyline that keeps you on tenterhooks.❞ ➜ WATTPAD READERS Treat yourself with this captivating story featuring a royal centibillionaire mogul, a whip-smart sassy heiress, and the world of Upper East Side with the trappings of truly opulent wealth, straight from the imaginations of Thackeray and Fitzgerald - a universe so elite you cannot buy your way in. ❃❉✦❉❃ Devastatingly handsome Riccardo was Juliette's first and only love. Twelve years ago, he gave Juliette her first taste of pleasure and romance... only to be devastated when she left him heartbroken. Life hasn't been easy for the Rothschild heiress who has moved to Paris ever since and has buried any hint of vulnerability behind a strong facade. Except the royal centibillionaire isn't a man to forgive and forget. He has made a fortune by bringing his rivals to their knees, his reputation as a heartless bastard is well-deserved. When he comes across the dangerously exquisite ice princess Juliette Rothschild at his brother's wedding; extreme carnal, sheet-clenching and uncivilized sex is all that he has on his mind. He has one goal... to possess her. He won't allow her to slip through his fingers again until he is done with her. He has demons and dark desires of his own... and it shocks him to discover that they mirror her own. Soon his desire morphs into a dark addiction he is incapable to fight. She too finds herself swayed by his tangible magnetism and submits herself to the unrelenting dominance he exudes on her soul. They embark on a sensual affair they don't want to end, but the tormenting secrets from their combined pasts are treacherous and dark, threatening to tear them apart. ❃❉✦❉❃ A sexy, suspenseful retelling of THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Mature themes and steamy content.