Before I Wake
GeorginaMiller
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  • Reads 86
  • Votes 1
  • Parts 11
  • Time 2h 56m
GeorginaMiller
Ongoing, First published Jan 26, 2013
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Eighteen-year-old Vida Maxwell takes her coffee black, her shoes comfortable and her bookshelves alphabetized. She’s always been the girl with a plan, one that includes medical school and after it, a career saving lives. But her attempts to keep her head down and her eyes on the proverbial prize are foiled by a boy named Pete who bursts into her life like a force of nature. Because he is one, literally.

Even under ordinary circumstances, dating can be tricky. But when you discover you’re a novo— a person with the ability to prolong the lives of others by staving off death, and the boy you’re falling for is a psychopomp charged with guiding souls into the afterlife, things get complicated. Particularly when a gatekeeper of the underworld comes sniffing around, hoping to use Vi and her abilities as a bargaining chip in his own quest for power.

But outwitting the gatekeeper might actually be the “easy” part. For Vi and Pete, the true challenge will be determining what happens when life and death fall in love… with each other.
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The Journey Thru My Life

7 parts Complete

80 year old Serenity Maxwell-Reagan looks back on the story of her life. The lessons she learned. The challenges she had to face. The ups and downs of life. Including the tragic death of her mother. In 1950 just as her life seemed it couldn't have been going better, it got worse. 13 year old Serenity Maxwell-Regan's life gets turned upside down in a matter of hours. First her mother dies. Then her less than imperfect father takes her from her cozy home in North Carolina to his noisy inhabitable home in New York city with her half siblings and step mother. Serenity begins to adjust to her new home with help from Asher the boy that lives under her, and who she has unexplained feelings for, and her best friend Kassandra. She begins to walk through life knowing that just when you think it's the end of your story you begin to learn it's only the beginning. All that's left to wonder is will life remain this perfect forever? Then in 1955 just as her life seemed to be going perfectly things feel apart in a matter of hours. Once again 18 year old Serenity finds her life falling apart. As she's driving home to South Carolina she discovers she's in love with her long time boyfriend Asher. Who only hours later of this discovery proposes to her. Life couldn't have going better until she realizes she loves him but that she isn't ready for commitment,at least not yet. When she tells Asher how she feels about the engagement they call it all off. Serenity spends the next few years of her life trying to figure out true happiness without someone to hold her hand. The real question to ask about now is will she ever find love or will fate bring her and Asher back together.

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