"Hello people of Stratum!" "We have breaking news for you this evening!" "The king has announced the beginning of The Search, an elite competition where the next queen chooses her suitor." "But since our young princess went missing just over seven years ago, people have been curious about the fate of the competition." "With no other daughters, and no way to produce another heir, the king is breaking tradition. He decided to appoint his son, Prince Roman II, to be the heir." "The first male heir in history!" "However, the king wants to protect the sacred competition set out by our ancestors, and is remaining true to all of the traditional regulations. The only difference is that the heir is a prince, instead of a princess." "That means that the suitors will remain men!" "Stratum is looking upon a future of two kings." *** "The Search" is an interactive novel. Readers will be asked to participate as the citizens of Stratum at various points throughout the book. Join our young prince in finding the perfect... man... to rule beside him when he sits upon the throne as king.

| Book 1 in the Sanders Series: Anxiety | 'If he was drowning, he'd just have to learn how to swim. Even if he was tempted to let himself go under.' ! PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT ABOUT DECEIT, THIS WAS BEFORE HIS TIME ! ! PRE-'ACCEPTING ANXIETY' ! || COMPLETED ||

"Please. Give me thirty days to try to convince you that your life is worth living. Thirty reasons not to die." Roman took a deep breath. "If I don't convince you by then... you can go jump off that bridge. I won't stop you." Virgil is standing on the safety railing of a bridge, preparing to jump, ready to end it all. But, a young jock with quick reflexes pulls him away from the edge, and makes him a deal. Now, Roman has only thirty days to convince Virgil to live. Give him thirty reasons not to die. Will it be enough to make Virgil stay? Or, will Roman be forced to live with the fact that he couldn't save him? Prinxiety All rights to the Sanders Sides go to Thomas Sanders! This story was inspired by a story written by Vanessa RiceLover

Soulmate AU For your childhood, you live a normal life. With parents, with friends, with those little markings on the wall that tell you how tall you are, how much you've grown. But, that all stops at age 18. Once you turn 18, you stop aging, growing. Years can go by, and you look as though not a day has passed. That is, until you find your soulmate. When you find your soulmate, you begin to age once more. Growing old only once you've found the one your heart truly belongs to, and you age together. Some never stop growing, having known their soulmate since they were small; yet others wait for centuries, hoping that one day, they might finally find the one for them. Roman is a prince from the Renaissance, and after waiting almost a thousand years, is losing hope that he'll ever find his princess. Virgil is a young musician, who did have a boyfriend, and Virgil loved him very dearly. But one day, his boyfriend left, as he begun to age when he met a barista at a coffee shop. Virgil has despised soulmates since. Patton is the boyfriend of a young lady, as he found he was half an inch taller a day after he met her. He tells his roommate of 3 weeks all about her. Logan moved to LA for his PhD, not at all looking for his soulmate. He's never been interested in love, as the longer he can stay on this earth, the more knowledge he can obtain, and knowledge is really all he cares about. Although he's not looking for love, he is looking for a roommate... ALL RIGHTS OVER THE SANDERS SIDES GO TO THOMAS SANDERS