A billion-dollar clone, bought and raised as an extremely dangerous weapon, strikes out against those who manufacture and harvest clones for spare parts. ***** Duplicates are used for one thing: spare parts. Kept in Emulation Facilities, brain-dead and hooked to machines, duplicates never open their eyes. As a transplant nurse, Evette Ashford knows this better than anyone -- until a living, breathing duplicate shatters her life. Merely knowing he exists drags Evette into a deep, dark world of manipulation, danger, and control. Evette knows he just wants to find himself, but the corporation that created him are furious he's broken their control. So Evette must decide who to trust: the monster who forced her into this chaos or the monster who created him. [[IC Universe People's Choice]] [[1st Place, Writers' Olympics Dystopian Award]] [[1st Place, Oscar Sci-fi Award]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: This story is rated PG-13 for violence, language, and sexual content. This story will become free on January 31st!

Siena is a new student at West-ridge High School. She's been kicked out of 6 schools and had to move here because of her bad records. This year she's determined to be better, but will her dark past be revealed to her new classmates, or will she be able to keep it a secret?

I'm am a nerd. I'm extremely smart. I'm short but I prefer to be called fun-sized ( I'm 5'1). I have blonde hair and blue eyes. I get good grades and have perfect attendance. I wear glasses but I don't need them. I wear baggy clothes but have an awesome body. I also have a secret. I street race. I also street fight and dance. On top of that I am a gang leader. I live in Texas. I'm Alexis by the way I am 17 years old. Meet Jake. He is 6'0 with dirty blonde hair and blue eyes. He is strong.He has a 6 almost 8 pack. He is the school bad boy player. His is also a gang leader. They fight and race. They do other illegal stuff here and there. We beat a few people up but that was it. They do like to scare people. What happens when they meet? Hateful and mean comments will be deleted. This was started when I was 12.

Karolina (Karo) Matthews is second in command in her platoon of Navy SEAL's. She's proud, strong, brave, and she would put her life on the line for the country she loves. Niklaus Bennett is powerful, dangerous and the Alpha of the Fiorscoth Pack. He's built his pack from the ground up and now his pack is number one; the most lethal. When these two strong individuals meet, the SEAL's got a gun and the Alpha can smell his mate.

#515 in Teen Fiction Blair Collins in the nerd of the Hawks High School. She is either ignored, or terrorized by her peers not just for being a nerd but for having 'ugly' scars on her neck and one on her face. But only if they knew why.... She is not your average nerd, during school breaks, especially the summer, she serves the military and protects the country. But is it really worth it when nobody ever recognizes you for it. To make her her situation even harder, she starts falling, hard and fast for one of the schools football players, YouTuber and choir leader, Nathaniel Cruz. And when they get together, will her military life tare them apart? Or will their love for each other just be that strong? School, graduation, prom, love and MP5 A3 guns will make one HELL of a year. This is not one of those stories where the girl takes 10000000 months to figure out her feelings and to get the boy to like her.

Jade Holt is 25 years old and a former Military soldier. She has over to a new city trying to find a new job. After getting kicked out. One day a man sits across from her in a coffee shop. There was an attempt on his life by a sniper but Jade saved his life. His name is Jax Baden. He is the CEO of Baden Industries. Jade doesn't know he is the head of one of the country's largest companies until after she saves his life. What's a love story without, romance, death, and trauma from the past? TRIGGER WARNING: DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE TRIGGERED BY HUMAN TRAFFICKING SLOW UPDATES

"He's my soldier and there is no way in hell I'm letting Stark or anyone else take him from me!" Book 1 of Shock Waves series

Gem Davis has always known she was different. She's always been stronger and more in tune with her senses then the people she knows. After having a freak accident in the military, she decides to come back home to California. But now after she's returned, things seem different. People keep smelling the air, and speaking in strange terms... After a while, things start coming to her. After meeting a random stranger in a local coffee shop, she starts getting unwanted attention. Of course, with her military dog tags always on her, her icy glare, and shaven but smoothed down mo-hawk she's not an easy figure to scare... So, when this random stranger starts following her around, and calling her his mate she gets a little curious. So the question is, how will she deal with her Alpha Mate?

Hazel Tate has spent the last three years of her life avoiding all things military. After the unfortunate deaths of her parents, she wants nothing to do with them. So she runs. Now she's a bestselling author, struggling to find inspiration for book number two. So when a random soldier sends her a letter from across seas fighting in the war, what is she to do? She wants nothing to do with this soldier but she writes him back. She wasn't expecting what she found; inspiration and love. Could it be love at first letter? [BOOK ONE] The lovely cover was created by @caffeinatedbubble #116 Romance

2016 WATTY AWARD WINNER - HQ LOVE THE TERM SHEET is a fast-paced technothriller about entrepreneurship, startups, encryption, and the delicate balance between national security and individual privacy. Its complex characters explore thought-provoking questions about the role of technology in an ever-changing society. Step into the high-stakes game played by today's technology innovators, who push the envelope and risk it all. Get ready, this thrilling book gives you a taste of what startups are really like. _____________________________________________________ David Alexander, a young programmer in Portland, Oregon, loathed his job. Computer programming had always come naturally, but being an employee never suited him. So he tried entrepreneurship instead. After making a series of embarrassing blunders, David finally hit on a startup idea that stuck: encrypted chat. Sure there were alternatives, but as Edward Snowden has shown us, most of them (willingly or unwillingly) have backdoors for spies and bad guys. A new approach made David's app one of the most secure options out there, which caught the attention of many people, including Shawn Douglas from the Secret Service. Shawn Douglas worked with eight different presidents, preventing twenty assassination attempts, forty-three terrorist plots and two bullets. When he was promoted to a desk job overseeing and organizing travel, he picked up on a cryptic email thread that hinted at a threat to the President's life. In a race to unravel the conspiracy, Shawn and David both have to make some difficult decisions. Will Shawn stop the terrorists in time? Will David be able to navigate his startup out of a crisis and keep his entrepreneurial dream alive? Or will fate deal them both a crushing hand? Read the book to find out.