"We always have the North Star, M&M," Elijah reminded her. "It shines bright, just like you do. No matter where I am, I can follow that star, and it'll lead me to you." "That's not how the North Star works." "It does when the person I'm looking for shines brighter than the stars." ****** She'd grown up to the sounds of screaming, objects being thrown, and the slamming of the front door at the house next to her own. Madeline's home was his haven away from his own personal hell. But at the age of eighteen, Elijah packed was little he had, said goodbye to her in the middle of the night, and drove away from their quiet town. Years have passed. Madeline is no longer that nine-year-old child who'd watched him drive away, yet her heart never allowed the pain of losing him to fade. There was no forgetting her babysitter, her best friend, the boy next door. Not a single clear night has passed without her searching for that North Star, wondering if he'd looked up that same night and thought of her. Wishes were powerful things. The first time Madeline allowed herself to wish for his return, her wish came true. Title Contest Winner: Emmie492

A Dialogue Story Laurel Blair, a nineteen year old animation student in college, aspires to become a comic writer someday and so she decides to work on writing one in her notebook. However, she ends up losing it inside the airport while coming back from her trip to Greece. Just when she loses all her hope of ever getting it back again, she receives a message from someone unknown on a social media site called - talkO'gram. They begin talking and that simple action of losing something so precious to Laurel brings her closer to someone she never even imagined to be with.

Micah Lauzier doesn't really need a new roommate. His finances are stretched a bit thinner than he would like without one, but it's not like he has the time to do much outside of his job as a CIA analyst anyways. When his twin sister (who stole his last roommate) asks if he would be willing to live with a friend of a friend for two years, he thinks it'll just be an easy way to reduce the amount of time he spends on chores each month. Enter Hayes Wexler. At twenty three, she's a law school drop-out finally pursuing what she wants instead of what her parents want for her. Getting a masters degree in museum studies while living ten minutes away from the famed Smithsonian Institute should be a breeze for this academic overachiever, however she soon realizes that it's the things outside of books that are going to give her trouble. Micah is quiet and grounded. Hayes is loud and dreamy. But they might just be exactly what the other needs. Two academic years. Twenty one months. Adventure, aggravation, and uncertainty abound.

Madden Jace Carter has spent his whole life waiting for the day he could finally call his Aunt Sadie his mother. Having been raised from birth by Sadie - a woman who has unfortunately experienced too much of the darker side of life and love - Madden has never known his biological parents, his father taking off before he was born and his teenaged mother leaving unexpectedly the night they returned from the hospital. Sadie hasn't had much luck in love, devoting her time and energy to raising Madden instead of dating. But Madden can't help but find himself instantly drawn to Sadie's old boyfriend Ruben and his teenage foster son Jet, dreaming of what it would be like to finally have the family he imagined he never could. When the pair meet again, Madden knows their lingering affection for each other is undeniable, and he is willing to do whatever it takes to help his true mother find the happiness she deserves with Ruben, including reaching out to someone he never thought he would even know in his lifetime. When You Know is the third book in the Rise and Fall series.

Life has reinvented the definition of rock bottom so many times for twenty-six-year-old Sadie Blake. When her parents divorced she received a new stepfather, countless bruises and a major aversion to alcohol. With her stepfather she inherited a depressed mother, new siblings and a reckless stepsister. With her stepsister, an abandoned baby nephew and a lifetime of responsibility... Responsibility has never frightened Sadie. For so long it's been all she's known, thrown into situations outside her control and forced to just find a way to make it work. But the kind of responsibility and obligation Sadie has had to endure in her young life isn't sustainable for anyone, let alone a vulnerable teenage girl just trying to keep her family safe; and the repressed memories and overwhelming darkness lingering always in the back of her mind grow more menacing by the day, begging to be seen and felt, and threatening to consume her altogether. Through enlisting the help of a therapist, Sadie realises her list of regrets is a lot more comprehensive than she first thought, and topping that list are two very different but equally important people - Ruben Foster and Camden Jones - neither of which she has seen in over a decade, but who she comes to learn will be key to her positively moving forward in life with her eleven-year-old nephew. But the process of trudging through their respective shared pasts is proving a lot more challenging than she anticipated...

What if your body doesn't always do what you want it to do? For June, this isn't a question, but a daily reality. As a fourteen-year-old with cerebral palsy, frequently dropping stuff and being stared at by complete strangers is nothing out of the ordinary. Other than that, life is great, until her parents decide to move to California. With all her friends miles away and nobody there to protect her from boys stealing your lunch, school becomes a lot more complicated than it had been. Then, she befriends Sam Redstone, a shy boy who'd always been invisible to others. June's days improve drastically with Sam by her side, and when she meets his older brother Nathan, she finally believes her cousin Valentina might have been right about sexy California guys. Slowly, she and Nathan develop a unique friendship, one that, June finds herself hoping, might someday turn into something more. But as the years go by, she's starting to think she might never be with him that way, or with any other man for that. Started: 29 January 2019 Completed: 16 May 2020

One night. One stupid decision. That was all it took for life to come crashing down. Four best friends with one year left of college. The days of parties and freedoms would soon be traded in for jobs and bills, but they were ready to face that brave new world together. But that one night, that one stupid decision ended three lives and left one barely living. Six months later, and Grace can still barely sleep or breathe. Sunlight on her face is a distant memory, stuck in her self-pity barricaded in the apartment she once shared with her best friend. Her father, not knowing how to help her through the pain, calls in reinforcements in the form of his own college best friend; a renowned therapist in her city who's determined to help her. Whether Grace wants his help or not. Novella- Eleven Chapters Fully completed. Will be updating daily.

Sophie knew her marriage was coming to an end. There had been a heavy weight in the house she shared with her husband and two young children; a quiet she tried her best to ignore. So when Jason sat her down at their dining room table, Sophie was mentally prepared to hear the words that would tear her once happy family apart. What she couldn't prepare herself for was what happened to her life once he walked out the door. Now Sophie must pick up all the broken pieces, and, with the help of an unlikely source, find a little bit of sunlight in the downpour of her broken life.

After one ectopic pregnancy, one miscarriage, and one stillbirth, Bianca has given up her dream of ever having children. And once her husband leaves her in the middle of the night, she's given up on love as well. When her brother offers her a place to start her life over, she's hesitant at first. Anything's better than living with her parents, but the man who comes with this new life has trouble written all over him. Sexy as sin, sweet as candy, and a smile that's melting her heart and doing ungodly things to her body. And therein lies the problem. Kade Calloway is everything she could ever want in a man, but she isn't allowed to want him. After all, he's older than her father. More than that, he's her brother's father-in-law. So what the hell does that make him to her? One hell of a complication. Started: December 14th, 2021 Completed: December 28th, 2021

Prison Diaries: Book 1 (complete) A law-abiding student gets entangled with a broody inmate when she discovers there has been a miscarriage of justice. She goes in to help, but ends up breaking the first rule of interning at a prison; she falls for the inmate. ***** Carter Reynolds' teenage years ended the second the gavel hit the sound block. Or maybe they ended when the police found him standing over a dead body, drenched in blood. It might even have been before that. When he connected his fist with a face that left a broken jaw in its wake. Either way, it was over. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He accepted his fate, only promising himself to never care for anyone so intensely again. Almost four years into his sentence, Arya Crawford walks through the wrought iron prison gates. A self-proclaimed miniature philanthropist with a heart of gold, a law-abiding student with an urge to always have fun, a girl with a silent cause. She had taken up an internship at the New York State Penitentiary. And in time, Carter and Arya both realize something. She had broken the first rule instructed by the warden. She had fallen for an inmate. Which meant she couldn't stay. He had broken the promise he made to himself. He had started to care for her. Which meant he couldn't let her leave. But it's a little difficult to make that happen when you're stuck in a closet sized cell. And waiting twenty-one years is out of the question. ***** Highest Rankings: #6 in Romance, #2 in Passion, #4 in Badboy, #1 in Witty (for those who don't think an inmate/prison trope is their cup of tea, don't be put off because the story is first and foremost 'romance') Disclaimer** Reader discretion advised. - Mature content Story contains explicit language, sexual content, and physical and sexual violence.