[COMPLETED] AT MIDNIGHT, I kissed her.

What happens when you wake up and suddenly your life has changed forever? When you're questioning your sanity and even your innocence? What if everything you worked so hard to build came crumbling down right in front of your eyes and the only one to blame was yourself? What could you do? How would you be able to rebuild a name for yourself? "You know what's funny Justin? You're so used to living in your own misery that you try your best to bring everyone down right along with you. Don't belittle me because the reflection you stare at everyday is corrupted by your own insanity," I replied, fixing my hair into a ponytail. "I know who I am, and I know who I'm not and nothing you can say will ever change that." He chuckled lightly and ran his fingers through his brown hair. "Blinded by your own stupidity I see. You can't change some people. No, they just continue to see the world as this perfect place where mistakes will be forgotten. Not this one. You're a murderer, you're a monster, and you're a criminal," he ended, sparking up another match to bring his cigarette to life. thank you so much for this amazing cover!! [cover graphics: @wallflower_r]

Love is a scorching trail she's afraid to follow... *** Star Matthews knows what she wants in life: everything that her current one isn't. She made tough decisions to get to where she is now and the last thing she wants is the beautiful complication that is Julian Wilde, Prescott University's most notorious playboy who just happened to be proving his reputation to her roommate when Star first met him. Thrown together every day in close proximity, Star fights her distracting attraction to Julian who insists that there's more to her than what she shows the world, and that he wants it, all of it, the good, the bad, the beautiful and the broken. When her sins come to light, proving she is no bright star after all, will Julian stand by her side or will he walk away before she can burn him heart and soul? *** Copyright © 2015 by Nina Tippett. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Nina Tippett. This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Images, music and videos used in the cover art and any of the multimedia content posted in this story are the sole property of their respective owners.

When Neva Álvarez moves to Queens, she's merely biding her time between bartending and dodging her brother's phone calls before her final year at NYU, and with the summer dwindling to an end, it's difficult not to find herself drawn to her new next-door neighbors and their wild lifestyle. Before she can stop it, Neva is plunging headfirst into a tumultuous affair with drugs, left desperately trying to navigate too many bad decisions that threaten to bring an intimate cocaine kingdom down into ice-cold chaos. || CW: Honestly, I wrote this story to process a lot of feelings and experiences. It explores addiction, immigration, and recovery through a very gritty lens. It explores distance, deportation, and family separation. It explores the concept of home. It explores a woman's right to her own bodily autonomy in a society that shames us for owning or loving our bodies. It may contain triggering elements (slut-shaming, abuse, drug use, violence, and rape). [July 2019 CampNaNo Winner]