[The Fiction Awards 2020 Winner in Diverse Fiction!] Jesse is paralyzed from his waist down, but he makes sure he gets what he wants, for he has already lost too many things in his life. Yet when he finally gets to meet Ava, who has anxiety and depression, he is not sure anymore. Ava has locked her heart away while trying to make sense of the world. Being mentally broken and haunted by unwanted thoughts, she struggles to trust people around her, while a chance encounter with a boy in a wheelchair changes her life and sets her on a path of self discovery. It's always hard to carve out a new path in lives. With Ava's endless pushing and Jesse's self-doubt about his disability, they do not plan to stop trying. Until the paralyzed love awakens. [Featured in the official @YARomance, @BullyingPrevention and @ComeAndSitWithUs reading list]

••• Jonah Mchale's junior year of High school was supposed to be different. Life changing. He was supposed to win his football championships, get scouted by a first division college team, ace his SATs, go to prom with his long-time girlfriend Nicole. He never meant to get injured. To get a concussion during a game. To get prescribed opioids, to buy heroin in a dark alley at 3 am. Jonah Mchale wasn't supposed to spend his junior year chasing his next high. He was never supposed to stop living. •••

Book two of "Owen". Mina's story picks up halfway through Owen's as she struggles to balance her home life, high school, college and an internship while continuing to fight off developing feelings for Owen. This story is apart of a series, if you'd like to read from the beginning please go check out my other books starting with: Owen Mina Home Safe Drew Okay Lost Vows If you'd like to read these stories without any spoilers check out my page for a more detailed layout.

Fresh out of highschool Aaliyah Crus decides not to waste any time and get a head start in her career in nursing. She answers a help wanted ad she had seen on work source of a woman looking for summer help taking care of her wheelchair-bound son. How hard can it be right? She took a CNA course in high school so she has all necessary requirements, and according to the ad he is pretty much independent. So It sounds like an easy-peasy job. Right? Wrong, she was so wrong!

Owen Savas is a senior in high school, popular and dating a cheerleader. He already has plans post high school graduation, a scholarship in his hands and endless possibilities before him. His life isn't perfect but his is pretty damn close. At least until he makes one mistake that will alter his future drastically. *There is cursing. A fair amount. This will be your only warning. This story is apart of a series, if you'd like to read from the beginning please go check out my other books starting with: Owen Mina Home Safe Drew Okay Lost Vows If you'd like to read these stories without any spoilers check out my page for a more detailed layout.

"Poison me..." I could feel and almost hear my heart pounding against my chest. There was this very strained silence filling the room. I looked towards her and her face was pale. She almost looked sick by the thought of it. "Maya... Please, take me out of my misery. I can't... I don't want to be here anymore." She sprung out of her chair and as she spoke, her voice sounded disturbed, "Charles, are you actually asking me this?" she started raising her voice and it was now one of anger. "What has happened to you? The old Charles was strong, he didn't give up on life because of a little heartbreak!" "That's not it..." "Then what is it Charles, huh? What's the reason you're asking me to kill you?" "It wouldn't be killing me if..." "If what?" She clung onto my arms and looked straight into my eyes. I could feel her anger seeping into me as she leaned in closer. ___________________________________________ The Prince of the land is quadriplegic; in other words he's crippled. He feels as though he's a burden to everyone around him. His girlfriend breaks up with him and there is a conspiracy within the palace so he chooses to stay away. Since he escaped the kingdom, everyone thinks he's dead. In the face of one lost Prince and another assumed dead prince, the king has no heir; which only means one thing: The kingdom is in danger.

Anybody can do anything. Even the wheelchair boy.

Peighton Rivers is desperate for a job. Her mother is six feet under, her dad is most probably across the seven seas in some country, and her sister is constantly in the kitchen or at school. When Peighton is given the chance of taking care of a handsome, humorous, yet troubled paraplegic for $4,000 a week, she has a decision to make. Will she take the job and take care of a man who she feels like has something more to him, as if there is a connection between them, or will she sooner or later walk away?

When Silya Emmerson moved to Indiana, she hated it, every part of living and breathing. With her mom constantly out of the house out looking for jobs and her dad nowhere to be found after the divorce, she set outs on a journey to the mansion known for it's a fancy rich parties. Breaking into privet property got her some thrill in her life and she frantically hides behind a door that has always been there but never existed to the outside world. Behind the door is a 17 year old teenager, Jaylin Hennery, locked in for 12 years of his life, in a wheelchair. When there is no meaning for Silya to live any further, she finds one. Two unlikely worlds clash and a bond is formed because once you cross that starting line, you are no longer running on empty.

I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn't hear his wheels against the tile. ---- Kacey Metter leads an average life- average grades, average friends, average family. She's a shoo-in for senior class president and the literary magazine she started is sure to boost her chances to a scholarship at a good university. But then her life is turned upside down when she meets Arthur, a boy who was paralyzed from the waist down when he was six years old. And while that injury still effects him in the present, he doesn't let it define him. His courage and personality inspire Kacey and the two become friends, and maybe more? This story is one of epic proportions, involving love, insult to injury, and main characters that'll have you handicapped from the laughter and tears.