Eighteen-year-old Brinn Hathaway has survived on her own in the Northwest High Country of Georgia since she was left for dead in a shallow grave by the man who kidnapped her as a child. When a young nature photographer, Justin Spencer, catches the wild girl on film and the two form a tentative friendship, Brinn must decide if coming out of hiding is worth the hope-and the danger-that may await her. Winner of the 2013 HOLT Medallion Award for Outstanding Literary Fiction Winner of the 2012 National Excellence for Romance Fiction Awards (NERFA) in the YA Category. Follow Brinn, Justin, Cody, and a cast of new characters through a series of novellas. Each story will bring a new adventure, another crime to solve, and more danger for Brinn and company as they delve into the world of human trafficking. See my website for details and links! http://www.pjsharon.com/books FINDING HOPE, Book One of the Savage Cinderella Novella series, picks up a year after Brianna Hathaway's return from the wild. As she and Justin struggle to work through her recovery, Brinn must come to terms with who she is and discover her place in this strange new world. When Cody asks for her help in solving a kidnapping case for the FBI, it brings her worst nightmares to the surface. But will it be what she needs to finally put it all behind her and move on? Or will it lead her down a path into a dangerous world? A child is missing...and time is running out.

MATURE CONTENT Alejandra Castillo is a successful woman. After the death of her parents, she inherits the family restaurant. She helps the business grow and, soon, it is flourishing. The restaurant becomes her world and she succeeds enough to open a second. She hasn't had time for men in her life, she's been grieving and building a name for herself. Domenico Lencioni is your typical Italian Mafia Don. His sights have been set on Alejandra for a while, but he's been giving her time to recover from her loss. He's been waiting for her to find herself again. He knows exactly what he wants, and it is Alejandra. He believes that she is finally ready for him, all these years later. Fortunately for Alejandra, Domenico has a proposition for her... THIS BOOK CAN BE FOR FREE READ ON INKITT. I am really sorry to have taken this down, but Wattpad deleted one of my books without warning and then fired me from the Creators program 24 hours later. As a result, I have removed all works. I have my profiles on here to promote my works and ask you to kindly go to Inkitt and Radish to read them, to read myself and connect with my angels.

Lenora did not have a wonderful life. After her engagement to Prince Ronan is broken, she loses everything... her reputation, her home, and her family. Starving on the streets, she dies angry and bitter at how her life unfolded... Only to wake up in her old bed, fifteen again, five years before she died. Now she must struggle to change her fate, and the fate of those around her. This time she won't trust in something as flimsy or changeable as love. No, this time she'll have the power and the money to protect herself. Lenora has already lost everything once. She's not going to lose again. No matter what the cost. (Cover submitted by @QueenHelmer)

The first chance she gets, Corrine Whitman tries to escape from the man who abducted her. But when James catches her, she has to deal with his bizarre guilt trip. Doesn't she enjoy his company, the game nights, stimulating conversations? Doesn't she know how lucky she is to be taken by a caring man instead of a psycho? He tells her he can't live without her. He won't live without her. But Corrine has to get home to her father. So, she has a new tactic--earn James's trust and enjoy her new family--or at least pretend. If Corrine plays the game, she'll be given freedom to leave the house, just like other women she's met who were kidnapped. Corrine can't fathom how so many women and children are taken and live seemingly normal lives with their captors all across the country. But she can relate--she's one of them. Corrine plots the perfect escape. Yet, the more time she spends with James, the harder it is to leave. She knows she's suffering from Stockholm syndrome, but she is determined to save herself and the others. And if she escapes? Corrine knows no one has ever left alive-she has to be the first. (Cover graciously designed by @bluntpencils.)

**Cover by @AndiApplexoxo** No one could have guessed what would happen when a sixteen year old Vincenzo goes to an auction with his father. No one could have guessed that his actions from that night would change his whole life path and the path of others. They couldn't have guessed that a blonde haired girl would turn their whole world upside down and change everything but she did. It was set in stone the moment they laid eyes on each other and no one could do anything about it... Because he'd lose his soul and sanity before he let anything happen to her ever again. And as you'll soon find out, May God help anyone who disrespected the Queen.... because she had the Devil wrapped around her finger. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This story is rated M for mature. If you are not 18+ then I would not read this.

"You seriously thought that you will jump from the window and escape?" "Yes." "Tsk. Tsk. That's so sad, but I guess you didn't think that you'd land straight on my back, didn't you?" My breath hitched when I heard the gun click in the darkness. "N-No. I didn't." ------------------------------------------------------------- Amelia had everything planned in her life; Graduate highschool with her friends, get a degree from the community college and open her dream restaurant, but her plans came crashing down when a short walk to her friend's house for a sleepover turned into her worst nightmare. Thrown into a world full of guns, blood and drugs, she gets kidnapped, sold and shipped to another country in less than 24 hours. . . . . . Leonardo Agostini doesn't care about anything. Being the heir of Italian mafia, he has the power, looks and women at his feet. With his father on the verge of retirement, he determines to have the whole mafia at his feet as soon as he takes over. But what would happen when a woman actually falls on top of him instead of his feet? [AMBY AWARDS 2022 WINNER - HUMOR CATEGORY] [Featured in @humor profile - Isn't it romatically funny?] [Featured in @humor profile - Dark Comedy] #1 in HUMOR!! (30/11/2020) #1 in ESCAPE!! (02/12/2020) #1 in RUNNING!! (03/12/2020) #1 in FUNNY!! (23/11/2021) #4 in MAFIA!! (19/11/2022) #24 in ROMANCE!! (21/11/2022)

Who knew going to the woods could change an innocent girl's life entirely with a flip of a coin? Who knew the local legend of the masked man turned out to be true? Certainly not Varia Galvan; the girl who went to the woods and met the masked man herself. [✓ - completed] Copyright © 2015 shadow_girl16

Molly has never felt safe. For four years she has lived in constant fear that the serial killer that murdered her family is coming for her. She has been moved around the country continuously, dropped off with a new foster family every couple of months that are too out of their depth to deal with her. When she is relocated back to California at seventeen, Molly has nothing left to live for. Believing that suicide is her only option, Molly makes the brave decision to end it all one fateful night . She had the perfect plan; nothing was supposed to go wrong. Just one choice, one jump, and she'd be with her family again. Charlie has never had to consider his own empathy towards strangers. He's arrogant, selfish and becomes unbearably irritated with other people's problems. But when he sees Molly standing on the edge of the bridge and ignores every part of himself that wants to walk away, something awakens inside of him that he never realized was there. Saving her was just the beginning. The two are thrown together in a world-wind friendship of hope, healing and passion as they endure the temptation of love and the danger of a sadistic killer that isn't willing to let Molly go. R E V I E W S: - "I started reading it and I could not stop until I was finished. It was a rollercoaster of emotions and events. I enjoyed everything! It is so well written, would recommend this book to everyone!" - "It's a heartfelt story that touches you deeply, and never gets boring. It's filled with everything you could ever want and more." - "Not sure I have cried this much reading ever... . Definitely the best storyline I have read in a really long time." - "Insanely intense book from beginning to end makes you cry a few times throughout absolutely amazing story." - "This was the most AMAZING story I have ever read. I laughed, I cried. It was so emotional and it was MAGNIFICENT."

"Kidnap... Nobody thinks they will ever get kidnapped. No one ever prepares you for those types of things. I never thought I would be kidnapped until it happened. At first I was scared, terrified. I had no idea what to do or where I was, everything around me scared me. Then I felt hate, rage towards the man who had taken me away from my family and dreams, from the boy that I loved! But then after a while...I felt something different. Excitement? Was it that I liked my kidnapper? Was it possible to fall in love with the man who has kidnapped you?" Amanda Roberts an 18 year old who thought had the perfect life, has been kidnapped. She faces things others would never bare to see and each day she fights to stay alive waiting for her boyfriend to come rescue her. Nick Chambers an agent in SWAT is desperate to save the life of his girlfriend and he will do anything to rescue her. Bruno Mendez, city's very well known criminal falls in love with Amanda after kidnapping her.. What will happen to Amanda? Will she be able to keep herserlf alive until Nick can rescue her or will she end up falling in love with the person who kidnapped her? Copyright © 2014 Sasha Dawson