A teen fiction story filled with truth and lies, happiness and sadness, light and darkness and pain and love. 🏆3rd place in the Golden Gems Yearly Awards🏆 * * *

"Behind every scar, there is a story of survival behind it." -Unknown It's a Hardship. It's an adventure. It's love. It's Hate. It's the burden of a dead weight. **#1 in Undiscovered Awards teen fiction category**

A lot can happen in a day, let alone two years. Avery Bridgette van Carter, a twenty-year-old socialite, returns home after running away for two years, in pursuit of living ordinarily. Being the only daughter of one of the wealthiest families in the country, she abandons what others call a perfect life and trades it for a chance to make once-in-a lifetime, dangerous choices. When she returns back to her home hoping to live on her own in secret, she decides to turn over a new leaf and start anew, including cutting ties from her childhood best friend, Eric Greddon, and her lover, Nathan Trevmore. She underestimates the burning desire of both gentlemen to find her and bring her back home. Despite her attempts to blend into the real world, she encounters a myriad of trials, including family scandals and lies that have been kept a secret even before she was born. While Avery was gone, could the people she once thought would be in her life forever take a different turn in her return? HIGHEST RANK: #1 in filipino #1 in featuredstory #1 in aspiringauthor #2 in filipinodrama #2 in privilege #2 in filipinoteenfiction #20 in citylife #22 in parentproblems

Life got darker for Stacy after Jenna left everything behind for a new beginning and that included her best friend Stacy who was haunted by a family tragedy and troubled by the bullies in her school. Stacy's heart shattered when her best friend left her during her worst. While Jenna's life brightened and felt quite simple. The simple life became not so simple after one of the hottest basketball payers named James started playing with her heart. He seemed so sweet and kind, not troublesome at all. Or was he? Will Jenna and Stacy survive their new lives?

One girl who ran to escape her past. One boy who's running to escape his present. Both have a different story to tell. *** After a near-death experience in the wild reunites high school strangers, Scout Martin and Cole Jackson, their worlds collide as they form an unlikely friendship. But Cole has a secret; he's on the run from the police for a murder he didn't commit. And as they grow closer, Cole finds it increasingly difficult to keep his secret from Scout, who's confronting the demons of her past, causing an inevitable rift between the two. Yet the lies we tell each other always find a way to bind us together, sometimes in a way we could've never imagined.