Rebel Simmons was just a girl who was dealt a shitty hand in the game of life. Despite her harsh and abusive upbringing, she worked hard, and studied harder. With an IQ of 252. she's a certified genius and is working towards her Masters Degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. When tough times hit and she's desperate for money, she steals $5 Million from an offshore bank account. Little did she know she was stealing from the most ruthless Mafia Boss in the world: Dante Vino. • MATURE THEMES 18+ • Cover designed by Holly Thurston

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This is going to be a collection of varied short stories. There's no fixed genre - you will be seeing a whole lot of everything - mystery, thriller, romance, sci-fi, paranormal, angst, fantasy. And unlike my other stories, these may or may not have our typical happy endings! So, short story connoisseurs , do dive into this interesting abyss of SOME SHORT TALES!!

In life there are things that are said, and then there are those that remain unsaid. For Keely Staub, her life mostly remained in the latter category. She kept the one true love, music, hidden from even her best friends. But when one song changed the world she lived in, shaking it to it's very core, everything she knows is about to change. Her future and a past even hidden from her collide as she wades through a world she'd never dared to dream of, allowing her half heart to maybe find an equally broken one in the unlikely source of Seth Ryan.

Lilianna Grace Welt is a sweetheart. She has had a rough past, making her seem closed off, but in reality when Lily and Cole are together, you would rethink that. Lily would much rather have her face shoved in a book or be listening to Taylor Swift than interact with people... well other than her best friend, Cole. Born and raised in the small town that is Solvang, California, Lilianna was tired of seeing the same old faces. She wanted a friend next door, instead she got stuck growing up on a cul-de-sac with cranky old people. Until one day seven years ago when her best friend Colson Miller moved next door, and all her wishes came true. Colson Kane Miller is a ladies man. Always has been, always will be. After moving from Texas to California at the age of nine and meeting his best friend who lives next door, Lilianna Welt, Cole is captain of the football team, but nonetheless still makes time for his best friend. They've been best friends forever. But that's all they are, and all they'll ever be. Right...?

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is an 1850 novel in a historical setting, written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book is considered to be his "masterwork". Set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.

On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive older sister and her kind, passive husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The next day, soldiers recapture the convict while he is engaged in a fight with another convict; the two are returned to the prison ships from which they escaped...

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

Clara Gannett is rich, famous and beautiful. She also has an axe to grind. Leonard Watkins murdered four of her ancestors for which he received four consecutive life sentences. Clara is determined to make sure he serves all four of them. At over 150 years, the Gannett-Watkins feud is the longest running in human history, it is also the most popular. It is 2206 and Watkins is about to be rebirthed again to begin serving his fourth and last life sentence. Ensuring Watkins rots in prison is Clara's responsibility to her family. This solemn pledge was sealed with a deathbed promise to her Grandmother. Clara uses the full force of her wealth and connections to carry out her plans. But her success does not come without consequences. The kind of consequences that will change her life forever.

A pacifist with a war god trapped in her bones must decide between stirring her demons or watching her allies and enemies unite against her. ***** When Queen Nomvula finds herself threatened by a reckless prince, she's cornered into navigating a battle that will devastate the region, and her clan, should it escalate. Worse, someone knows about her deadly secret, and where its bloody trail eventually ends. Staying ahead of her enemies means risking her land, her values, and even her children, all while keeping the war god inside her from takings matters into its own hands.