^Top Five Finalist in the 2013 Watty Award^ ATTENTION: Due to publishing this is only HALF of the book. For the complete story, this book is available on Amazon! Meet Reece Collins, Washington's star quaterback, best pitcher, and track star. Reece has the money, killer looks, and the perfect family. His life was perfect. Until the shooting. Now meet Payton Jennings. Payton is a quiet, shy, nobody that no one even knows she exists. She has little money, a severed family and bad looks. Most people don't even know she attends Washington high. She is the definition of a no body. The school is rattled and turned upside down when a weird, troubled kid brought a gun to school and opened fire in the hall. Luckily no one was killed or had any serious injuries besides one. Reece Collins and that's because the boy envied him so much it made him hate him so he meant to kill Reece. He almost did, but Reece survived. He lost his sight though and is now, blind. This changes his whole life and brings him to Payton a girl who doesn't care that he is blind. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1680308211/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1586995563&sr=8-32 Copyrighted 2012 © Tara L. Declan

On what was supposed to be a normal trip to the bank, Hayley Stephens finds herself in the middle of a bank robbery with some peculiar robbers . . . who decide to kidnap her. Taken hostage by the handsome and irritating Jason Lambargo, Hayley finds herself tempted to discover secrets that could help her understand her past and where her absent brother is. But as she delves deeper and deeper, Hayley is thrust head-first into the criminal world her brother lived and the enemies and promises he made. And to top it all off, she's fighting a futile battle and keeping her heart from falling for her captor. She knows how dangerous he is, and yet . . . She just can't help herself from falling in love with a criminal.

Hayley moves to a new town and makes friends with the head cheerleader and #7 in the football team.... But will #7 become more than just friends.

Hailie Adams left 3 years ago to travel around europe for a school photography program. When she left, she left a lot of things and people behind. But most importantly she left her best fried Aiden Grey. Aiden and hailie have been best friends ever since she could remember, the two were inseparable so when she left it was hard on both of them.  3 years later hailie comes home expecting to see aiden waiting for her with bog open arms & everything to be just like normal but boy was she wrong. Nothing was like she left it. Aiden was sent to juvie, and now is known as the bad boy. He wants nothing to do with hailie and keeps pushing her away. The town is filled with secrets, lies and judgements, but hailie doesn't care what aiden or anyone says she was on a mission to save her best friend no matter what she had to do. Little does he know on this mission shes going to discover feelings that she never knew were there for her once best friend who only wants hailie to leave him alone. Does hailie take the abuse and hurt from Aiden or does she just give up and accept that he changed? 

Like every other teenager, Angelina had plans for the summer that include camps, parties, and beach days with her friends. The final day of school arrives and Angelina thinks that she is now free from all the boy drama for three months. But that was before she got home and found three hot brothers there: Andrew the player, Riley the cutie, and William the childish one. Angelina soon discovers that they are staying with her and her father for the summer. Will her summer turn out the way she wanted it to be, better, or even worse? Join Angelina as she tries to survive the summer with the Turner brothers.

Dani and Hayes have been friends for the longest time but once they get into middle school Hayes forgets about her and finds better friends. When Dani has to stay the night a Hayes' for Christmas feelings come out and the truth is revealed. Will they become friends, a couple or worse, stay strangers. --- WROTE THIS WHEN I WAS 12 SO WATCH OUT