A high-profile male celebrity and his assistant embark on a secret emotional, and physical, love-affair. However, the consequences of their actions could have disastrous results... *** A night out on the town for a few drinks was all I had signed up for. But in reality... I got way more than I had ever bargained for when my boss and close personal friend, Bill Skarsgård, asked me to join him during a wrap party that the crew was hosting that night. In hindsight, I should have seen this coming. After all, we were both having issues in our own respective relationships and for some reason, we had found it easier to just confide in each other - rather than in our own significant others. Yet in the end, do the reasons ever truly matter when you begin an affair with your friend who also happens to be your boss? I often ask myself just how selfish could we be; he and I? The answer is: we're completely selfish and neither of us really cares if this secret burns us alive - because it's within each other, that we have finally found the things we had been looking for the whole time... [Viewer discretion is advised.] ____ As of June 20, 2018: The Assistant has won in the 2018 Winsome Awards, under the Thriller category -- just for the first 5 chapters. Wow. Thank you guys so very much. As of July 13, 2018: The Assistant has won in the second round of the 2018 Black Ink Award, under the Fanfiction category -- based on the first 6 chapters. She is now in the running for Best Book of The Year, with the same awards category (judging for that, starts in September). As of October 27, 2018: The Assistant has won its third and final award of the 2018 year, by snagging the Ultimate People's Choice Award, in The Black Ink Awards - based on the first 6 chapters. You guys are truly unbelievable and I thank you all, for continuing to read, vote, and comment on The Assistant!

Nila has always been called the sunshine in the lives of those she loves. Until she was adopted by Luke Smallbone when she was nine, she was in the foster care system for the only part of her life that she remembered, but she was okay with that. She'd always been given loving, caring foster families, and now, at fifteen, she has the best forever home she could ask for, and is a cheerful-as-ever as a daughter, older sister, niece, and friend. But then, seemingly out of nowhere, she starts having nightmares, and later discovers that they're of events she never remembered from her early childhood. With the words and deeds of her true biological parents echoing in her mind, she starts to struggle in ways she wouldn't have dreamed possible. But she's too scared, too used to being the brightest light in the room, to come forward about what she's dealing with to her dad, or her uncle, who are both growing more concerned by the day. Finally, everything falls and Nila decides to end her own life. A close save by Joel spares it, but it seems that she's only getting worse, now not only dealing with what she always was, but also a load of shame larger than herself. And now, Luke and Joel are in a desperate struggle for the life of the girl they love so much, to show her that she's found the place where she belongs, where there are no more broken lullabies. Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/d5m9hwg99quxcibsjlrb3tpz7/playlist/3R8X3aIbunEz2g737wCMal?si=821GbOeuSlqEeleIJQ2nWg

Emory has been raised to protect the Daughter of Rosalind-- the prophet of her kingdom's goddess. She has been raised to put the Daughter's life before her own, so when the Daughter's life is in danger and Emory is put in charge of her care, Emory swears on her blade to do whatever it takes to keep her friend alive. While on the run from the false king who seized the throne and sent Emory and the Daughter into hiding, Emory is forced to face the fact that her life is the one she had sworn to protect all along. HIGHEST TAGS - #1 Rough Draft - #217 Kingdom TOP 10 of The Royalty Awards - Adventure Category