{Watty Awards 2013 Winner} This is simply a story about a lonely girl who finds love. I was inspired to write this because I wanted to know that there are good things that happen to invisible girls like me. I wanted to write Hope for those who seem hopeless. • • • In March of 2013, Letters was #1 in the short story category. June 2013: Short Story #3 and Romance #40 February 2014: Winner of The Watty Awards 2013 for On The Rise Short Story

Who knew how many secrets were hidden behind the tall gates of the mansion where Austyn and Hunter lives. Austyn is no ordinary girl. She has been beaten and abused by her stepfather and her mother left when she was just a little kid. She's always had this haunting past that she couldn't seem to get away from. That is, until she meets Hunter. Hunter seems just like an typical teenage boy. Very athletic and physical. I guess you can say he's a people person. When Hunter's Mom, Daisy and his dad, Jake adopts Austyn from the orphanage. Hunter is devastated. He wants nothing more than to make her life a living hell. Make her suffer the way he does every day. He teases and taunts her every single day. Make sure she knows that he doesn't want her there by calling her out and shoving her against the wall. He even makes fun of the bracelets she wears; having no clue what lies beneath them. One day it all gets out of hand and Hunter finally apologizes. He opens up to her about the reason he acts the way he does and they become the bestest of friends. They share their most haunting secrets with each other and they're both falling head over heels for one another. Austyn soon resumes taking school again but she stops once the most precious thing is taken from her by a guy she thought she knew so well.

For months Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her - and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect, pure flowers. His family. But flowers can't survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out...