This the fictional memoir of a young soap star who becomes a national icon. All Steffi’s dreams come true when she lands a starring part in the country’s biggest soap opera has a number one Christmas single and wins a Bafta. The whole country falls in love with her, including the pop star she had a crush on all through her teenage years. But someone out there knows a secret about Steffi’s past and heartless media revelations blow apart everything she ever believed to be true about her family and about herself. http://www.steffimcbride.com

Lilith Farrar's job is not easy. She rubs shoulders with socialites, diplomats, the President of the Western Union, even choice members of the British Peerage, all in the name of keeping secrets. Hired by her husband to keep his personal life private, she is exceptionally good at managing his affairs. Good, that is, until something goes terribly wrong at a weekend retreat and threatens to blow their cover wide open.

When your soul is hunted, you can't hide forever. Thousands of years ago, an evil known as the corruption seeped into the land. Where once it was contained by the Sentinels -- humans or elves gifted with magic -- it now thrives unchallenged, gaining strength and claiming those that once fought it for its own. Nineteen year old Skye has always known this. Living with demons on your doorstep is a constant fight for survival, but she’s determined to not become one of the corruption’s monsters. To keep her soul pure, no matter the cost. But with the Sentinels gone, betrayed by their own, it’s only a matter of time before the corruption seizes them all. When a scouting mission goes awry and Skye is taken prisoner, her blades can’t save her. Marked by the corrupted Sentinel, she waits for a fate worse than death to take hold. Only when the Silverborn, knights dedicated to fighting the corruption come to free her does something awaken within her. Something powerful. The power of a Sentinel. Celestial. Fire. Water. Nature. Shadow. None are safe from the corruption. *+*+*+*

It was only a joke when Jane said she’d someday rule the world. However, after accidently making the right friends and discovering the secret they all had in common, she finds herself the official dictator of planet earth.

Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer and an even better singer, she is the perfect lover for any man. Perfect, that is, except for her personality - the one thing you can't engineer.

My mother always told me when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When someone knocks you down, you get right back up. You fight the good fight until you have nothing left. You fight with honor, you protect the ones you love, and if you just happen to die in the process, than you do so with dignity and grace. What my mother neglected to tell me during my studies was that you don't always get what you want, the outcome you think is coming doesn't always happen, and when the smoke clears, you're always going to be the last one standing. By the end of The Certainty, Georgiana Vertigo is left with nothing more than her life, something many people would be more than happy to have. However, Georgiana is left to her own devices in a strange city, alone and heartbroken with regular intense bouts of depression. In starting a new life with the Guild, Georgiana has everything she needs in order to move on with her life and keep her mind off the past. Only problem is, the past is never truly forgotten and no matter how hard you try to shake them, the feelings that go along with the memories don't just fade away. ~ * ~ Alright, chickens. You asked for it (some of you at least) and here it is...well...part of it. Like I've told a few of you, this is a work in progress. I add pieces to it when I think of them. The posting on this story will NOT be regular but thankfully for you, I have quite a bit of it done. I just haven't decided if the path I take it down is the right one. So. I hope you enjoy it and I will give you a forewarning that as the story progresses, it gets a bit more adult. For those of us just joining the party because they stumbled across it in the Paranormal category, there is a whole series of books you have to read until you get to this one. Go start with The Beginning. You can find it under "My Works" on my home page.

Aidan looked torn and looked down. I looked over at Michael but he refused to look at me. So I turned to Raphael. "Don't do this to me." "Your road is a lonely one, Daughter. I'm afraid circumstances have forced your hand. It will be painful, I know. But such is life, your life." "You can't take both of them from me," I whispered. "Then I make you a deal in exchange for your promise." He made sure he had my attention before he continued. "One may remain with you until a month after your graduation." My eyes grew wide. "You can't do this." ~ * ~ Decisions. Decisions. Decisions. The Last Book In The Illusion Of Certainty Saga

Are you wondering how your favorite Vampire/Slayer couple finally got together? Read and find out! An Illusion of Certainty Short Story. I'm delicately handing my heart to you, In your caressing hands to forever keep. I'm giving you the chance of destroying me, And I know I'm in your love too deep. I'm giving my entire self to you, All of my mind, body, and soul. Handing over to you my everything, In hopes, you'll be the one to keep me whole. I'm depending on your gentle and sweet love, To get me through the tragic world each day. I'm praying to God you'll always be here by my side, And that's where you'll always be to stay. Putting you over everyone else including myself, You automatically go to the front of my line. Which is why I'm delicately handing you my heart, In hopes, you'll always and eternally, completely be mine. ~ * ~ As everyone knows, this was a short story I wrote for Valentine's Day 2012. It takes place during The Certainty between the chapters Heartache and Angel Talk and My Time Has Come. The poem up there I found online. I don't know the title or who originally wrote it. Enjoy. :o)

For two months, Peter Marks has been looking for the girl he loves. There’s no trace of where the Hunters took her and no one’s talking. He’ll do anything to find her: beat up her best friend, get suspended from school, even alienate all of his friends and family. No one else matters but her. But what will happen when Peter finds her? Will she be the same? Will she even be alive? More importantly, will she still love him? ~ * ~ Despair. A sea of waking moments and dreamless sleep. That’s where Cassandra South is. All she can think, or even wonder, is if there is anyone out there that really cares about her. After a brutal betrayal she never saw coming, the last words Peter ever spoke to her, and varying promises of how much longer this hazy state will last, Cass has reached the end of her rope. Her trust is broken. Her being is broken. Her heart is shattered. Who will save her? What will happen to her if someone does? The future is null and there’s nothing left but despair. ~ * ~ The third installment in the Banish Me series, Cass will face things she never thought she would. Things that just might break her in the end. ~ * ~ Official Song: For You by Angus and Julia Stone. © SCCourtney

Georgiana Vertigo has lost something important. The boy she loved has turned into a Vampire and left her reeling and dealing with the mess he left behind. She tried to cope with his betrayal but no matter what she does, nothing works. To everyone else, she looks like she hit rock bottom and is finally clawing her way out. But only one person knows the truth, only one person knows what's going on inside her head. That she's faking it to the people that love her most. After the failed Blood Trial in Vampire Domain, Gee is left with a stronger bond to Michael. But she won't do anything about it even though they both want to. Nothing is physically in their way but Gee waits in vain, sacrificing one love for another which she is sure never to get back. As time drags on, she is left with the choice of moving on like everyone else, or staying as she is, a ghost of the girl she once used to be, the true embodiment of a Forsaken. (c) SCCourtney The third installment in The Illusion of Certainty Saga