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(previously named but,hold on) | Part I of 'The Lost Words' trilogy | When the messiah is met with a hinderance on the road, even he, as a leader, needs a lending hand. ~ "Nathan, what's going on with you? Where are you staying now? If the police see you..." "Trust me I'm safe. I wasn't going to stay away until I could see you at least once, but I can't stay for long. I wish I could see the others, but it'd be too complicated. Here." He hands me a letter. A letter I hope will hold the answers I'm looking for. ~ [started November 14th 2014] [finished June 19th 2015] [Winner of @SykeContest 's Teen Fiction awards] [Highest ranked: #178 General Fiction, #367 Action] (self made covers. I do not own any of the pictures used.)

Amber has a secret, one that she hates. When the school bad boy finds out, she realizes he isn't who he seems to be. Garrett is hiding something. When he runs into Amber, he knows his past has caught up to him. Matt can do no wrong in the eyes of most of the student body. When Garrett steps in, his world starts to fall apart. Who knew a confrontation behind the cafeteria would tangle their lives together, changing everyone in the process. Nothing would ever be the same when they realize, there's more than this... *** This is the first book in the Fallbrook Hills series which can be read as a standalone. Fallbrook Hills: (Jefferson High) Not Quite Enough - April & Nico More Than This - Amber & Garrett (Fallbrook University) All There Is - Hannah & Matt All It Took - Jeff & Allison 🥈Second place winner for the Cliche Crunching Contest 🥈Silver Award for the TEEN FIC awards - romance category 🥉Third place winner for First Blood of the Sanguine Awards - teen Fiction category Nominated for The Fiction Awards

Forbidden Love. Will she get what she Desires? My entry for Wattpad's Romance Competition - Love: To Be Or Not To Be.

When a dystopian world breaks out into a huge war, there comes an age when everyone, including Teya Raine, has to pick a side. But when she chooses the Daine Side, instead of the Wen Side, as her mother wants, she is forced to leave her family forever. Teya soon begins to regret her decision, as she is accused of being a traitor against the Daines. She begins to question who are really her friends and who are traitors.

Ashley moved to Georgia from her hometown after realizing she wanted a change in her life. She graduated from NYU in fashion and marketing. Ashley has her own apartment and a job that pays for her bills so far until she comes up with a plan that suits her ideal job. 1 boy hangs out at a pizza place where Ashley works and has a sudden interest in her. New girl, new town, new boy entering in her life. What Ashley doesn't know is that this boy, name Chase is going to be involved in her life more often now that he might have found...

HIGHEST RANK: #46 IN SCIENCE FICTION, #1 IN SUPERSTITION ~ secrets are kept for a reason ~ They had lied to everyone. They had kept secrets and hid things from the people they were supposed to protect. They thought they were doing the right thing, they thought they could fix the world but instead they destroyed it. They were given a chance to start over, they bargained lives in return for survival. The government leaders ruined everything and now was time for them to pay. Colette didn't ask for this. She didn't ask for the nightmares or the lies or anything that came after that. She wanted a normal life -- a perfect life -- and she had that until things started going wrong. Until she noticed things she wasn't suppose to notice. Then, she became aware.

Mickey Davidson and Jason Thomas have been best friends for as long as they can remember. Growing up together in the same town, with neighboring houses, they were inseparable. When their senior year arrives, everything is going well -- until one day, when there's a car crash on the way to Jason's football game. After Mickey wakes from a three-day coma, everyone is relieved . . . until she opens her mouth. Mickey doesn't remember who anyone is, but it goes a step beyond that. Mickey thinks she's someone out of a story she writes -- and Jason is the only other person she recognizes. ranked 1 in adventure

"Don't worry my love, soon we shall be together forever." When Alaina Alaska's boyfriend and lover, Noah Nebraska, leaves with out a trace, how will Alaina cope? Will Noah ever come back? Will their love survive? Most importantly, where did Noah disappear to? Read to Find Out.

#38 in Mystery as of 2/1/18. #93 in Chicklit.... A pair of beautiful warm lips, a rush of passion, a feeling of being complete once and forever, a pair of beautiful eyes as deep as the ocean, beautiful dark hair reaching up to his neck, which shone brown in the sun, and then he comes near me and holds my hands gently. I lose myself in his eyes, there's nothing except those liquid eyes which could see into my soul, I tried to see his face. But it was all a blur, a soft pair of lips touched mine as gentle as a feather but it created a rush of electricity in my body. I wanted to own every bit of him... then again my head was spinning...I lost my balance, I fell down and my head hit the floor. The whole world spun and I found my sight dimming. My head hurt and yet I tried to push through the curtain of darkness, His face...I had to see his face...and yes I could see a pair of eyebrows, a perfect smile and then the outline of his face was forming....I was sweating from the exertion and then the world plunged into darkness. And I lost myself in the endless abyss of unconsciousness. What do you think happens when you can't remember the person you loved? #543 in Romance as of 30.11.17

Eighteen-year-old Eleanor has never been kissed. She doesn't care, but everyone else does. So, what happens when a deal is made that requires her to lock lips with someone before graduation, with the help of the one person she wasn't supposed to want? Take a peek inside and find out... ___ Hi there, I know this summary sounds cliche, but I promise you the story is good. Frequent updates in June and July!

COMPLETE Sam died. When he did, he left two people broken and reeling from the loss of their closest friend. Mesi, his girlfriend, blames herself for the accident. Xander, the guy who knew Sam since he was in diapers, wishes it was him who drove off the bridge that day. Neither Mesi nor Xander knows what to do in a world where Sam no longer exists. He was the one who always had the answer, the fix to any problem. But Sam isn't able to put his friends back together if he's not there. Amazing cover by @inevitxble (now @checkshirts )

Two years of being in love with a person who doesn't even know about it. Two years of keeping my crush secret from my friends. Two years of blaming myself for being too shy. It's time to start doing something or else I will lose the guy I've liked since 7th grade. The only question is how? What to do? How do you step out of your confident zone to do something you are afraid of? #2nd place winner in The Creative Awards. #3rd place winner in The Sour Apple's People's Choice Award. #Winner in The Changeling Awards. #Runner-up winner in The Sunset Awards. #3rd place rank on #lovenotes

Discovering that your Crystal Fate is from the Chest of the Lost really turns your entire life upside down...

"I've sat behind you my entire life." I mumbled, trying my best to hide my irritation. "Cool, Sally. So can I have a towel or not?" I'd known Jai Darling my entire life and he still couldn't get my name right. **** "The Darlings have lived next door my whole life. They kept a low profile, never leaving the house. None of them except their three boys, the boys that would soon ruin my entire life." Sienna Hall never questioned her rude neighbors next door. They had always just been in the background. That was until Sienna saw a stranger walk into the house as if it were his own. And she does the stupidest thing possible. She follows him. She couldn't have ever imagined what she would find behind the closed doors. Or who and what the Darling Boys really are.

****Taken down for publication with Parliament House Press in 2019*** ****Bonus Story Available: The House of Seven Smiles***** ***Wattys 2015 Winner!!!*** Magic runs bone deep... In a world overrun by monsters, humans struggle for survival underground. Magic is feared and reviled, but rooted deep in the bloodlines of families, cropping up once a generation. These individuals are cast out, banished to the Above where humans are far, far down the food chain. When her younger brother is tainted by magic and forced to the surface, Azzy follows, determined to save the only family she has left, no matter what he becomes. ***Lovely Cover by @mulanjiang*** ***#2!! in Adventure 2/28/16*** ***#6!! in Fantasy 8/15/16***

(previously called still,we fall) | Part II of 'The Lost Words' trilogy and sequel to MESSIAH | When they both become each others saviours, they become the light, they become uriah. ~ His hand unconsciously roams to back of my shoulder where I was shot. "I have gone through a lot of things, Sam. A lot of things have been done to me, but never have I been shot." "Yeah, it was a first for me too. And hiding your own scars, I see." "Most of my scars are unseen to everyone. You haven't even seen them all. No actually you have. Remember when you used my scars as an excuse to make me undress?" He starts laughing and I punch him again. ~ [started June 28th 2015] [finished June 1st 2017] [Winner of @SykeContest 's Teen Fiction awards] (self made covers. I do not own any of the pictures used.)

❝Please tell Axel that I love him. I always have, and I always will.❞ - A heartbreak, as told by the heartbreaker and heartbroken.

★ NOW PUBLISHED! ★ What do you get when you add the ultimate meet cute + a bruised head? = A whole can of heartbreak. It all starts in aisle three. Lacie O'Connor prefers to see the world in black and white, logical, rational, and natural, like her biology major. She just wants to survive her freshman year of college, but first she must find a can of peas. Instead, she gets hit on the head with a box of cake mix. Trent Montgomery is all saturated and technicolor even in the maroon employee polo. Lacie thought she left him and his sheepish smiling friend at the grocery store but finds him in her most dreaded class: Intro to Philosophy. He sits next to her, and it's all PLATOnic until he presses his foot up against hers. That's all it takes for her to get lost in the philosophy of Trent. What starts out as sidewalk conversations soon leads to study sessions that transform to cuddle sessions that transform to make-out sessions. But just before winter break, Trent steps back. He dodges her texts. He kisses her in private but blows her off in public. Lacie knows miscommunication and mixed signals spread like an invasive plant species, but what she can't figure out is which version of Trent is real. The one she met in aisle three, or the one who likes to get drunk in dorm building basements. © 2015 ℓαℓαℓαℓαwriting © 2019 ℓαℓαℓαℓαwriting |Edited/NEW| © 2022 Published version All Rights Reserved |Third Place Winner in #Readytoreadya2018 Young Adult Reads Contest|

Elizabeth Clove. Her death changed everything. Some say she killed herself, some believe that it was a freak accident. Some even have the mind to think it was murder. But all the answers were contained in a small, black book. Maxine thought she knew her best friend, her town, her life. But when the mystery surrounding Elizabeth's death envelopes her and unfolds, she discovers the truth. And what Max finds is heart stopping. What may seem insignificant, holds the key to the truth, to solving the mystery of what really happened Elizabeth Clove. ••• entered in The Athena Awards, The Vervain Awards, The Epiphany Awards, The Reach for the Stars Awards, The Leave Your Mark Awards, The Quill Awards and the 2017 Wattys top 10 in general fiction in the Reach for the Stars Awards 2017 ⚠️ WARNING⚠️ frequent mentions of drugs, suicide, murder and mature themes.