Clarissa Lincoln is a martini glass half full type. Heck, even when she slurps the last bits of icy vodka from the glass, she'll tell you it's plumb full! Until a disaster of a night on New Year's Eve sends the daydreaming, serial dater spiraling as her hopes of happily ever after seem to be circling the drain! The distraught, Rissa is left hopeless and bleak as she vents to a friend at a coffee shop on New Year's Day. Self-help writer and well-known handsome bachelor, Conner Fields, who wrote THE dating guide a few years back, overhears Rissa's tirade when he is brainstorming for his next book. The grumpy writer is about to storm off, annoyed at this woman's loud intrusion, when suddenly he has an idea. An experiment, actually. A dating one, only instead of dating men, Rissa has to remain single for one year and get to know herself by going on special solo dates. After these dates, she will need to meet with Conner to fill him in for the book. It's a weird offer, but women everywhere swear that Conner's first book changed their lives, and he's offering to pay her well if she takes on the challenge seriously. The broke city girl could sure use a few extra bucks, and she's been failing miserably in her love life so far. It's an offer she can't refuse, and so a deal is made and a dating experiment that's sure to go wrong begins. Gumpy/Sunshine Relationship Coach He falls first

|| Available in book stores!! || watty award 2017 winner! || Becca's life takes a thrilling turn when she pretends to date Brett Wells, the most popular boy in school. Becca Hart is determined to coast her way through her senior year at Eastwood High School. Counting down the days until graduation had become her crutch. Her plans come to a screeching halt one afternoon when she ends up sharing a spontaneous kiss with Brett Wells, who's known for being captain of the football team and an all-around good guy. Their "love" spreads like fire and their fake relationship begins. But the two quickly learn that just because it started off fake, doesn't mean it won't become very real. ___________________________________________ Highest Rank in Teen Fiction: #1 - June 24, 2017. Featured in Teen Fiction: August 1, 2017. Watty Award 2017 Winner for Riveting Reads: September 29, 2017 Completed on: September 18, 2017. ___________________________________________ This story was originally published by myself on the Episode Interactive App as RIVALS. However, the story and the sequel have now been taken down. Alex Light © All Rights Reserved 2017 Cover: Designed by Corina Lupp and drawn by Jordi Labanda.

❝ crossing an invisible line is never as simple as stepping back.❞ [original story] [book one of the kingsley U series] [18+]

[Complete] A professor x student, feel-good, romantic comedy. *** Lexi was used to working behind the scenes at her family's small private investigation business. While she dreamed of getting on the front lines, like her parents and brother, she was stuck doing what she did best - solving crime through the computer and away from people. Yet, when her family takes up a case from a mysterious client to save their struggling business, Lexi is thrust out of her comfort zone and into the spotlight. The mission? Undercover work at the most social place in existence - college. To make matters worse, her past comes back to haunt her in the form of a very attractive, and very off-limits professor. While Lexi's determined to stay focused on hacking the case, it may be easier said than done. Especially when non-technology related hacking comes into play. *** Reviews: "OMG I loved this story so much!! Loved the characters and was rooting for them the whole time, loved the intense hacker search as the love story took off, just amazing!!" -@HeidiCarroll "Love!!!! I absolutely loved every minute of this. It flowed so effortlessly. I really had so much fun reading it. And I really didn't see the ending coming! Fabulous, flirty read." -@SarahQuinnMcGrath "Absolutely wonderful, sexy, funny, and overall thrilling" -@ZoeDurlock

[WATTYS 2025 HONORABLE MENTION] 🔥Rated R for mature sexual content and graphic language 📚For fans of You've Got Mail (and underwear kinks) OR as one reader put it: "A yuletide story of what happens when his package gets shoved in her box by mistake." *** Zoey Franklin's post-college life is a mess. She's jobless, newly single, stuck living with meddling parents, and forced to hang out with her parents' friends, the Londers (AKA complete strangers), for Christmas. The only thing maintaining her sanity? A flirty, banter-filled text exchange with a mystery man, sparked by a package mix-up. Tristan Londer is finally going home for Christmas for the first time in forever. While he hoped for some much-needed quality time with his family, instead he gets a house full of strangers taking over his space. Especially that one stranger--the one with the voice, and the eyes, and the sass, who's claimed his bedroom as hers for the trip. Even though Zoey Franklin is the most beautiful woman he's ever seen, he can't stand the entitled princess. Good thing he has his mystery woman to text with late at night. If there's anyone who can turn his mood around, it's her. *** Cover co-designed by @LNRoberts1 and myself

[ALSO KNOWN AS "MATCH MADE IN HELL" ON WEBTOON ORIGINALS] He's. . . hot, popular, and proud. She's. . . plain, eccentric, and persistent. There's nothing common between them except that they hate each other. Not good, right? But why is he determined to find her while she is determined to escape him? Twists get turns, fates have entangled. Life has even become harder than before. And their once-upon-a-modern-time story starts with a dance. -- Book cover illustration by raindrops_ [Old version] STARTED: Nov. 2012 FINISHED: Nov. 2013 [New edition] STARTED: Jun 2018 FINISHED: Jun 2019

Reign Miller doesn't believe in love, she thinks all romcoms are cringe and so are high school relationships, even she doesn't know why. Her goal during senior year is to work her ass off so she can make it to a good college, a place where students don't always make out in the hallways or drink from the same milkshake cup. * Football is the only thing Luke Richardson enjoys, he's a rich kid with a pretty face from a rich neighborhood, and everyone thinks his life is going great but that's because he's good at keeping things inside, except for his hate towards Reign, the girl with a smart mouth and only popular for hanging out with popular kids. Himself included.

Captain of the hockey team and arrogant womanizer Weston has nothing in common with Gracie, a carefree musical theatre nerd who doesn't mind having dirty laundry on the floor. After accidentally becoming roommates, all hell breaks loose. The two enter an all-out war filled with pranks and...some flirtatious tension? The goal = make each other's lives so miserable until one of them eventually moves out. Gracie isn't backing down, but unfortunately, neither is Weston.

"His touch made me feel tipsy, and I wanted to be drunk." - Julia Cunningham is a sports photographer in Nashville, Tennessee. She fell in love with a camera at the age of sixteen. Since then, she has gone no where without her camera attached at her hip. For the past two years, she has worked at Vanderbilt, but she wonders if it'll ever be enough working there. She is recommended to take photos at the Nissan Stadium where she flourishes being a photographer for the NFL. Miles Moore plays for the Tennessee Titans. He's a well known celebrity around the country where girls throw themselves at him. As if fate is by their side, these two find themselves always finding each other in a crowd of people. Julia doesn't know if she can handle being in the spotlight of the press if she stays with Miles. When it comes down to it, she must choose just one. Her camera or him? - Completed 2/14/2024

Olivia Olsen has hated Colby Jones since that unspoken night freshman year. Neither of them has spoken a word to each other since, only leaving glares and scowls at each other in passing ways. The day they are both paired to reenact Romeo and Juliet in their graduate requirement theatre class is the worst day of their lives. Colby Jones has made his way to being the most desired baseball player in North Carolina. He's a lot more handsome since the first time Olivia yelled at him three years ago. Olivia has matured into a beautiful, fearless woman who will put you in your place, which drives Colby insane. The two are the same person in a different body, and neither can come to terms with it. As they read the tragic love story together, they realize their connection, just like Romeo and Juliet have. - Completed 4/28/24