"So," He said. "Are you always this mysterious?" His eyes full of curiosity under a dark mask. "That depends." I crossed my arms and narrowed my eyes at him, "Are you always this nosy?" He blew out a little bit of air through his nose and smiled, "Touché." "And I'm not mysterious." I added. He tapped on my own mask, "Who are you then?" I swatted away his hand. "And if you're not mysterious," he continued, "then what are you?" I rolled my eyes, "I'm a runaway princess from the land of far away." I put a finger to my lips, "But shh, it's a secret." He chuckled lightly. "You didn't answer my question. I kept my mouth shut and didn't say anything. He honestly can't be serious. There's no way that I going to tell him something like that. Like dude, seriously? "You know," he said casually, interrupting my thoughts, "Secrets don't make friends."

Stay away from that boy. That's what they all told me, but I was never one to be obedient. The Boy who Broke the Rules. All Rights Reserved. * He was the mysterious lonely boy who found her in a clearing and told her to stay still as he sketched a portrait of her. Entranced by his voice and intensity of his gaze, she let him draw her. But what lay behind his sketches and silent stares was something more. And she was willing to find out.

“I’m going to get straight to the point. I want you to make me fall in love with you.” Camila Jones is fearless. She’s also uncontrollably fierce and overly ambitious which tends to be a bad combination. When she unexpectedly fails an audition due to her inability to express love, she’s forced to reconsider something she swore she would never do when she was a kid – fall in love. But where is a seventeen year old supposed to find a guy to fall in love with? Turns out, it might be a lot simpler than she thought.

Emma Jacobs is like any other Californian girl who is only trying to survive high school. She’s happy with her group of friends, her brother and his wife, Caroline, and her secret talent. Emma can sing, and every Friday, she does just that. However, Emma is too shy to sing in front of anybody that may recognize her from school, so she drives to the next town over and performs every Friday at The Seaside Café. Emma is happy with her double life until there’s a bump in the road and her two lives begin to overlap just because of one boy who just so happens to work at the café. How will Emma keep her secret when the whole thing depends on Jace Parker, the school loner. And how can she keep the secrets of her demented past in the past if he is determined to pry into her history? Surely, all of her problems come back to The Seaside Café.

Grief-stricken over the death of the boss who was like a father to her, Olivia Bailey is left to deal with the aftermath--the arrival of his dashing but estranged son, Pierce Alexander. But she can't stand him and he doesn't trust her. Will working for the new CEO remain to be an impossible task? *** Olivia Bailey might be plain and boring, but she's content with her current lifestyle, working for the kind but lonely old man who owns Alexander Corporation. But his untimely death flips her simple life upside down. Now, she must deal with his estranged son, the heir to his business empire, together with the growing feelings building up between them. Will Olive manage to bear the pressure and issues cropping up along the way--or is this too much to ask? Disclaimer: This story won The Wattys 2014 People's Choice Award. Cover Design by Ashley Marie Bandy

❝Here's a tip about falling. You may or may not know where and when you'll land but you better have a damn good parachute.❞ Aria Beckham has a heart of gold. She's a goody - two shoes that gets along with everyone, a matchmaker from heaven and has never met two people that she couldn't put together. She's friends with negative zero nerds on the social scale, the positive hundred populars and even the loners. So when bad apple of the school Malice Ridge who and I quote '❝stole her ham sandwich back in kinder garden because she wanted to ❞comes to Aria for help in the love department Aria is more than surprised. Staying true to her matchmaking business Aria agrees to help Malice out. In the process she discovers Malice has a thing for the new kid: Hunter Marshall. The strikingly handsome delinquent with a cold dark exterior that probably got kicked out of twelve different schools and has girls shivering at the thought of him. Placing the bad boy with his equal. Sounds easy as pie, right? Wrong . Due to Hunter's screwed up personality he ignores and disagrees with everything Aria has to say. That is until she agrees to tutor the failing jerk. Glued to matchmaking the two rebels, Aria along the way finds herself doing something that was not included in her and Malice's plan - falling for Hunter.

There are two things Harper Lynch wasn't expecting when she made out with an attractive stranger at her aunt's wedding. One: He would show up on her doorstep two weeks later as the son of an old family friend. Two: That he would be staying in her house, right next door to her. If living together isn't enough, Duke starts to go to Harper's school for the year, and immediately earns the status of the senior heartthrob. Suddenly, Harper, the girl who keeps mostly to herself and spends a lot of time in her room watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer marathons, is the envy of every girl in her high school. Harper couldn't care less, and despite that fact that she has insisted that she has in no interest in Duke, she is still subject to the wrath of jealous, catty bitches and the admiration of wide-eyed freshmen. It really doesn't help that Duke is constantly flirting with her in his own irritating yet charming way. Harper refuses to be yet another conquest, but is that what Duke wants? Or does he want more?

Hazel Reed, a self proclaimed loser by choice, never thought for one second that she would ever hire a boyfriend. She had her entire life planned out. In the last year of her high school life, Hazel is eager to set out somewhere far, far away, unfortunately, her meddling family wants something else entirely. With her family pressuring her to not become a crazy cat lady, unmarried and alone, Hazel has finally had enough. Hiring a man she could never fall in love with to be her boyfriend, Hazel sculpts the perfect plan involving one messed up road trip, a wedding, and a whole lot of Lies. What she didn't expect was to end up getting targeted by the 'Blood Kings', a notorious gang, no thanks to Coda. Coda Williams is the epitome of the word carefree. With YOLO as his life motto, Coda has no plans for his future, choosing to "float his boat where ever the wind takes him." -or whatever that means. He's handsome and everything a girl could want-except when they find out about his gang related past.So what happens when Hazel Reed, the uptight, anal class president of his highschool offers him a deal even he can't resist? Spinning into a world filled with gossiping families, hard right hooks and revenge thirsty gangs, Coda begins to question what exactly he has gotten himself into with Hazel Reed. ~*~ (HUMOR/ROMANCE/ACTION) Rankings: Teen Fiction: #22 Humor: #44 Completed: August 25, 2015

❝Photography has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them❝ When Cecilia Miller finds out that her dad's new fiancée might have possibly seen her hidden stash of photographs, she knew her pictures were no longer safe. What follows on next is the search for a new safe house and when she finally finds one, let's just say that Cecilia Miller might have stumbled across a not-so-empty safe house. #58 on Teen Fiction copyrighted. ©. 2014. carterjenson

Holly Holloway (in her ironic name glory) was timid and soft-spoken. A quiet honors student who read more than she socialized. But her best friend, Layla Matthews, (the outgoing one) would always push her into doing things out of her comfort zone. After Layla moved to Canada (freaking Canada!), Holly realized just how much she relied on Layla for that extra push. She became even more introverted after her best friend left. But her life completely changes when she sees a terrible crime that sends her, the class clown, and the cute football captain into the Witness Protection Program. But now because of that fateful encounter she is living with two boys and a CIA agent who swears to protect the them. And Holly's name is changed for her protection, fatefully to Layla Hale. With her new name reminding her of her outgoing best friend, Holly creates a whole new identity for herself- one where she's confident and daring and attention-grabbing. She may even catch the eye of that cute football captain along the way. Cover by: sabrina-spellman