❝We made a pact that if by 2017 we aren't engaged, married, or with somebody else, that we'd marry each other. You still want to go through with it?❞ ©2017-18

**THE BROKEN BENEFACTOR** War doesn't end when the plane lands. Lance Corporal **Ethan Raye** comes home from Syria alive-but barely. Once a proud Marine with a future, a fiancée, and a body he could trust, Ethan is now trapped inside pain, nightmares, rage, and a disability he never asked for. The battlefield took pieces of him. The silence at home threatens to take the rest. His fiancée, **Charlotte**, promised to stand beside him. But love looks different when the man who returns is no longer the man who left. Then comes **Valerie**. After a chain of family tragedies destroys the life she was trying to build, Valerie is forced to drop out of college and return home to save the family house and the land her parents sacrificed everything for. Taking a job as a healthcare worker is supposed to be survival. A paycheck. A way to keep her family from losing the last thing they have left. She never expects Ethan Raye. He is wounded, angry, guarded, and drowning in secrets. She is exhausted, determined, and carrying burdens no one sees. Every day she cares for him, Valerie learns that some pain does not bleed where people can see it-and some men are not broken because they are weak, but because they have been strong for too long. But Ethan's past is not finished with him. Secrets buried before the war begin rising. Charlotte's love may not be as steady as it seems. Valerie's heart becomes the one place Ethan starts to feel human again. And when suffering, loyalty, guilt, and desire collide, one question becomes impossible to ignore: Can a woman fighting to save her own home help a wounded soldier find his way back to his? **He lost himself for his country. She helped him find his way back home.** A gripping **military romance**, **wounded hero romance**, **caregiver romance**, and emotional **interracial romantic suspense** about sacrifice, survival, forbidden feelings, family secrets, and the kind of love that finds you when life has already torn you apart

When Riele crosses paths with a reclusive millionaire, her life takes a dark and unexpected turn. Trapped in his gilded cage, she must navigate a dangerous game of power, secrets, and survival in a Penthouse-where nothing is as it seems.

Prologue: "Do you accept the job?" He questioned me as I bit my lip softly, thinking about the outcome of accepting this job. Just say yes. This is exactly what you need to step up in the photography world. I looked at him dead in the eyes and nodded. "I accept." I said with as much confidence I had. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Twenty year old Cassie Treston Millers has her brown skin and her big brown eyes. She is stunning and she isn't insecure. She's not conceited either so what's the problem? Well, she just accepted the job as One Direction's photographer. One Direction's manager is hiring someone to make a book about their life on the rode and he wants to include the number #1 thing teenage girls want from them: Pictures. That's Cassie's job. She is suppose to create posters and take pictures of them from place to place while on stage, in the tour bus, looking at tourist sites. To name a few. In order to do that, Cassie has to go on tour with them. She gets her own room on the tour bus so she can work and be a girl, but that's not her problem. Living on the bus with 5 drool worthy guys is harder than she thought. She must keep her relationship with them as professional as possible but will that wear down? Will she make new kind hearted friends? What about a romantic interest? Who knows? All you have to do is read and find out what life is like to be One Direction's Photographer.

❝They seem to be the perfect balance for one another; she feels like a little girl again around him, he feels like a regular boy around her.❞ // A Leigharry AU written by xTheyCantDetainYou

Sneak Peek: He leans in, and kisses me deeply. His long, beautiful eyelashes tickle my cheek, just as I'd predicted when I first met him. His soft, full, lips envelop mine, but I don't push him away because he needs this. I need this. I want this. I bury my hands in his hair, and he starts to do the same, but then he hesitates. He's probably wondering if it's ok to touch a black girls' hair. I smile against his lips, and grab his hands and bury them in my braids. He smiles back, and runs his fingers through my braids. I'm starting to think that he's having more fun with my braids than with my lips but then he runs his tongue across my teeth. I open my mouth and he deepens the kiss. Our tongues dance and he nips at my lower lip. Kissing him is wonderful; he's probably the best kisser that I've ever encountered. So much for the stereotype about White people being bad kissers.

Kendall has extreme trust issues which influences her to hurt the one who loves her most, her boyfriend Michael. Together their like a natural disaster two people who aren't right for each other but the perfect match. With love like a inferno can they beat the odds of separation and heartbreak. (Read on and follow Kendall's confusing life, and Michael's struggle) "Just kidding, but I bet you'd be even prettier if you showed some teeth." So I smiled for my crush, looking him in the eyes hoping it didn't look awkward. He stared at me. "Yeah... you're gorgeous." He said it so softly. My cheeks were glowing, I looked down "Did I even tell you how beautiful you look, not just today but all the time, did I tell you how I get nervous whenever I look at you, did I mention how Bad I want to kiss you. Don't say anything, I'm just going to go for it." Michael gushes. I was stunned I couldn't say anything even if I pushed. He tilted his head and invaded me with his lips and tongue, the kiss was laced with chemistry smushed noses excitement, lust and something else I didn't quite understand, I knew it would be a kiss I'd never forget.

❝He thought the world of her, as did she.❞ // a Leigharry one-shot written by xTheyCantDetainYou

Christmas only comes once a year, y'know.

A kidnapped black girl tells her story after 5 years.