Sometimes it's as if you forget I'm human. I am a woman made of skin and bone. I am not a piece of machinery you assembled. You can break me in ways that you can't fix. It's easy to replace your things when they break, but I am my own design. I am not one of your gadgets you can toy with. I wasn't created to be controlled by you, and you can't gear me to your liking. My affection isn't a game you can download from the app store. I am not yours to play with. Sometimes it's as if you forget you're human. You're not a machine, even if you operate like one. You're not made of circuit boards and cold aluminum. Love is not a program that can be encoded into your software. You are a man, made of skin and bone. You're a man incapable of feeling anything real. But you will find there are things technology can't provide for you. One day you won't be able to function, and no update or restore can fix you. Copyright © 2022 Winona Wild. All rights reserved.

"I've come to discuss your side of the deal we made earlier." He sat on the bench, his towel wrapped tightly around his waist. "Okay, what you got for me?" Here goes. If I didn't get it out now, I never will. "I want you to teach me how to be sexy." Allison (Ally) is tired of being overlooked by the opposite sex. Every guy she knows goes for the overly sexy girl who wears revealing clothes, and tons of makeup, and is ready to drop it low at a moment's notice. So where did that leave girls like her with standards? Lonely and frustrated. But not anymore. Ally is prepared to do something drastic to increase her chances of snagging the man of her dreams, Brandon. The sexy jock has been on her radar since the moment she met him. And when a golden opportunity presents itself for her to try something crazy, she decides to throw caution to the wind. Drew, Brandon's best friend, needs her help for the millionth time and Ally decides it's time to stop doing his work for free, he has to earn it, but is he willing to pay the price she asks and help her with her plan to snag Brandon? Or does Drew have something more devious in mind like snagging her for himself?

Trapped in the woodlands, Ivy's only hope of going home is to escape the faerie who enchants her into loving him, blinding her to what he is--monstrous. *** A dark fortress of trees twisted and crippled by time, the Clearwater, Connecticut, woods is no place for two teenage girls. The legends claim it's haunted. Fed up with being kept inside after dark, fearing the monster will take them, sixteen-year-old Ivy Farewell and her best friend Margaret set out to prove everyone wrong--that the ghost of Clearwater isn't a ghost. And the voice that has been calling to Ivy after dark is simply a trick of the wind. But the woods are deeper than Ivy imagined, each turn bringing them farther from home. When they end up lost their only hope is in each other. All seems undone when Ivy falls ill with a fever, until a stranger persuades them back to his cabin. Under his spell, Ivy falls into a deep and complicated love, a love so treacherous it blinds her to what he truly is--a monster. Copyright © 2023 T.A. Joseph All rights reserved cover by @xenomorphius

❝it's a thief in the night to come and grab you. it can creep up inside you and consume you. a disease of the mind, it can control you.❞ a story in which the moon fell in love with the sun. a story in which night and day play a dangerous game. a story in which a girl is so in love with the night and darkness, that she realizes that homicidal werewolves and dark spirits are just as insane as she is. a story in which a nyctophiliac falls for the one guy who is just as dark as she is. ❝it's like the darkness is the light, am i scaring you tonight?❞ ☞ season 3a & 3b