You said you loved me. You said you'd never leave me. You said we'll be together forever. Then why did you leave me alone? Didn't you love me anymore? Was I that bad of a friend? But I miss you 9/6/14 Short story #271 Teen fiction #987

Perfect Illusion is the FIRST book in the Perfect series, followed by the soon-to-be released film PERFECT ADDICTION. Published as an ebook/ on kindle ***** When college student Alex Woods agrees to a fake engagement plot to save her parents' company from bankruptcy, the last thing she expects is to fall for the illusion herself. ***** Alex Woods thinks college will be a fresh start, but when her parents announce their business has gone bankrupt, all of her plans come crashing down. The company has been saved by a wealthy business owner, but it comes with a condition: Alex has to pretend to be engaged to his son, Daniel, for the next 3 years. Daniel Kerrington is 100% swoonworthy, but Alex knows that beneath those killer good looks is a poisonous personality, and Daniel has made it clear the hatred is mutual. Though they've been thrown together with the person they each loathe the most, Alex and Daniel have to make their engagement believable. And as it turns out, the line between love and hate really is very, very thin. [[word count: 100,000 - 150,000]] Cover designed by Ren T Book 1 of the Perfect series

He growled when I tried to run the brush through his black hair that looked as wild as he was. "shut up, you look awful." I scolded, trying to get him to be human for ten seconds. He tugged at the ropes that held his tattooed wrists to the arms of the chair, but they didn't budge. I was good at knots. I pushed him back in the chair with my hand on his bare chest and tried to get the brush in his hair again. This time he grabbed it from my hand with his teeth and snarled as he broke it in half. I scowled and stepped away from him and the shattered wood pieces of what was once my brush. "well that was perfectly normal." I said sarcastically at him with my hands on my hips as I blew a strand of loose red hair out of my face. "I'm not normal, I keep trying to tell you I'm an animal!" He yelled as he struggled against the ropes again, making the chair wobble. "then I'll tame you." He stopped struggling when I said that and looked at me with raised eyebrows. But for once he didn't try to stop me.

Daniël is the average twenty-something guy whom could easily blend in with the crowd. Only, unlike the crowd he dissapears in to look normal, he doesn't have a home, nor a normal life. He lives his life in constant fear, a fear that most people would laugh about. He fears a colour. Officer Colton is just new but he takes his job seriously. Being transmitted to a smaller town where everyone knows everyone, he still needs to learn the ropes and faces of the people. Funny thing is, he has no problems with picking Daniël out of the crowd.

Alison Collins is in a coma and now Nate has her journal. Nate never expected for Alison's brother to give him her journal after the accident. Alison was the girl who always kept to herself yet Nate seemed to always be intrigued. As he reads through her personal thoughts Nate manages to find it in himself to change and how personas are never set in stone. Follow Nate as he finds feelings he’s kept hidden from Alison all these years and how he grows throughout this experience. {Book 1 in the Dear series} ____________________ All Rights Belong to Me

Jo Mast had a rough start to life. Up until she was seven, Jo had lived in an abusive household with only her pretend adventures in the tree house next door with the neighbor boy to keep her sane. Now, Jo is all grown up and the dark memories of her early years have faded. She now had Jasper and a full ride scholarship to college and she’s happy with her life. However, when she moves to go to school that just so happens to be in her old hometown, Jo must dig up old memories that she had spent many years burying. And that just might include finding the boy from the tree house that she’d said goodbye to so many years before. With the help of her friends, old and new, Jo finds a way to maneuver through the struggles of moving away from home and really finding out what it feels like to grow up.

People may think that seventeen year old Cameron Schmidt is living the good life because of the big house and all the money he's surrounded by every day. They may think he lives the good life because he attends White Ridge Academy, has two amazing best friends who know him better than everybody, and has the attention of one of the wealthiest girls at White Ridge. They may think he lives the good life because he has a trophy wife as his stepmother and a picture perfect father who runs his own company in New York City. But that's just what they think, it wasn't reality... Seventeen year old Cameron Schmidt, does have two great best friends, but just because they know him better than anybody else doesn't mean they know everything about him. He lives with his stepmother and father, but nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors. Nobody knows that he's just a boy silently crying out for somebody to come save him... But what happens when a new girl named Emmeline catches his attention? He didn't know what it was that drew him to her, but maybe it was her long light brown hair that he wanted to oh-so touch? Maybe it was her looks that drew him to her. The fact that she looked and acted like none of the girls who attended White Ridge was something that he liked most about her. But the number one thing that drew him to her was her eyes, her blue misty-like eyes, and the cane she carried around every day. She was blind, trapped in a dark world just like him... But maybe they could be each other's light...

Jack the Ripper. The name strikes fear into the hearts of those living in Victorian London. Preying on innocent women, the mysterious murderer slinks along the cobblestoned streets undetected and disappears without a trace into the night. Diana Ashdown. Beautiful and adventurous, she never wanted to be married off and trapped in a marriage she didn’t choose. She longs to see the world and write about it, but in 1888, her opportunities to become a journalist are limited. Living in a lavish, gloomy home and married to the handsome, but cruel and coldly distant Lucian Ashdown, the Marquess of Aberaeron, Diana’s only job as a wife is to care for the children from the marquess' first marriage. But a chance encounter pulls her into the drama surrounding the murders in Whitechapel, and her investigative skills are put to use as she helps to unravel the deadly mysteries surrounding the Ripper. It isn’t long before Diana finds herself in the middle of the nightmare, with her own life on the line. As the murders continue and London is stirred into a panic, Diana realizes that the killer might be living closer than she’d ever imagined…even under the same roof. As she fights to save herself and London, Diana will encounter love, heartache, family, and blood. Lots and lots of blood.

On the outside, Adena Serre looks like an average highschooler. But on the inside she's broken. Because of her hidden secrets, she shut's off the world. So when she is paired with Dylan Henderson for an assignment, she builds up a wall to keep him out. But Dylan, finding Adena to be interesting, wants to know what she is hiding. As Adena and Dylan become closer, it becomes less about the assignment and more about their lives. When there worlds come crashing down around them, will they be able to find love?

As a Muslim girl, marriage is one of Safia's biggest dreams. All her life she kept herself pure for her faith and her future husband. Although having never had experienced love, and occasionally doubting whether she will, Safia feels herself growing impatient being single. She then sends her family to search for 'the one.' Trusting her family, she decides to say yes to the first person her family finds for her. She believes she will get married and face all her problems with her husband by her side. Is it really as simple as that? Yusuf feels a void in his heart. He tries to deny it, but he knows his mother's not proud of him. He knows she wishes he could be a little more modern like his brother. He wanted his family to find him a wife while he could focus on his deen (faith), but his idea of a wife clashes with his mother's. Seeing that his family were struggling to find him someone he likes, he decides to take matters into his own hands. But is he rushing into decisions without thinking?