I am a predator. Humans are the prey. I feed off their fear as they drown in my arms. But life didn't used to be this way. I wasn't always half-human and half-fish. I used to be one of them. A human. This is my story.

Darren dropped the note addressed to the "Prince Charming wannabe" and announced "Well then Cinderella, I propose a game. If I win, you must come away with me. If you win, I leave and never return. The game itself is this: I have to find you."

Arden Gray: A catty, beautiful, endlessly underestimated teenage girl drowning in a crippling tidal wave of depression. She spends more time in the realm of books than reality, and struggles to keep her head above water as her world seemingly comes crashing down around her. Lucas Riverton: The seventeen year old boy in the awkward stage between child and adulthood, who works at a local bookstore as a means of escape. He barely knows Arden, but is positive that there is something about her, something he wants to devote the rest of his life to figuring out. Two worlds connect in an unfathomable force as young lovers relish in the discovery of a feeling that is beyond description--- and do everything in their power to prevent the inevitable destruction of it. ~~ REVIEWS ~~ "A poignant story about the deterioration of love between two young teenagers that don't know anything but how to fall." "...flawless, simple, and very imaginative." "This is a wonderful, angsty story...read in one sitting!" "Arden Gray is a unique and quirky character that I found myself growing attached to right away...This author manages to pack more emotion in one sentence of dialogue than most people can in a whole paragraph of metaphorical description."

‘It would be addictive, enthralling and consuming. Her readers would not be able to put the book down until the final sentence. It would be the next big thing. This, she knew.’ Sophia Drakos is an author - in the sense that she writes books, not that she actually gets published. Having been rejected by publishers too many times to keep count, she finally decides to craft the ultimate novel; the true money-maker. One that would make her name famous in every house and even spawn a blockbuster movie: Romance. She already has the perfect protagonist; Ariel Winters, the exotic, curvaceous example of everything Sophia was not. Later, she would decide that was where everything had gone wrong. Ariel was attractive, and certainly addictive. Sophia can’t stop writing, images of Ariel dominating her every thought. Soon, Sophia finds herself trapped in her own, perceptively real, literary otherworld created for Ariel’s romantic escapades with the sexy police officer, Jack. Initially a dream, Sophia’s reality quickly transforms into a nightmare as she discovers the horrible truth about her efficacy. Ariel knows she is being stalked, Jack is romantically redundant and none of the characters submit to her expectations. Can she stay balanced and in control, or will she succumb to the lure of absolute power as The Author?

[This book will be published by Random House in September 2013 in paperback and ebook format. This is a sample of the first fifteen unedited chapters.] They say that the higher you climb, the harder you fall - and Madison Clarke will do anything to keep her new life from crumbling to pieces. Moving from a small town in Maine to Florida, Madison Clarke grasps the opportunity to reinvent herself. Because that's what people do, right? Madison just wants to forget about those days of being a lonely, loser outcast, and jumps at the chance when the popular kids decide to take her under their wing. A hot boyfriend, parties, friends... If only there wasn't the slight problem by the name of Dwight, a cute, funny and totally nerdy guy in Madison's physics class who she can't help but enjoy spending time with. Running from her past and stumbling through the present, who knows what lies ahead in this new life in Florida?