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Almost Me

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Parts 29
Time 4h 7m

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Bright lights, sequins and showbiz drama all make for a great story but Claire's story isn't your typical happy little girl story grows up and falls in love story, she has dark secrets that haunt her day and night. Between social isolation and unstable parental guidance Claire is struggling to survive within a world where normal comes easy to everyone but her. With her 18th birthday looming ahead she comes to realize things need to change and fast if she is going to escape her demons. Adulthood is quickly approaching she has no time to mourn the loss of a childhood she never had to begin with. 

After facing yet another set back in her plan to escape, an unlikely hero sweeps in to brighten her night. Liam, the very handsome Irish bar tender at the lounge she has frequented since she was 14. Liam sees through her tough mask and decides he is tired of being the bystander in Claire's life. He is determined to bring happiness to Claire and help quiet the demons in her head but little does he know there are more demons in Claire's life than meets the eye.

Will Claire recover from the trauma? Will she find the peace she so desperately craves? And how does her future as a figure skater look? 

This is the first book of The Phoenix Chronicles a series about over coming our darkest self and learning to live and love the life.  

*Please note this is recommended for readers over 18 years of age due to adult issues and content and mild language.All Rights Reserved

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No Body No Crime

The leaders have fallen. The dead has risen. The survivors take over. No one understands what its like to loose someone unless you've been through it too. Its like your soul is ripped in half and you can't live the same anymore. Meet Aurora Jackson, a fiery troublemaker who has had a difficult life. When she looses the only person who knew the truth she searches for a way to fix herself. But the worlds different now, a virus has wiped out more than 75% of the world and she has to choose whether to live or survive in a world full of monsters. Follow her journey as she looks for the person who saved her and watch as she realises the person she's left behind is actually the person who's stuck by her all this time. Does Aurora realise in time that she loves her? Does she even love her back? The world is in disarray, governments have fallen and blood is shed. Lives were lost and some were changed forever. How does Aurora cope with this new life, this life she doesn't want to live? A certain footballer catches her eye years before this drama unfolds. A romance evolves one in which she was sure would be her future but plans change and Aurora is stuck in the middle of the past and the present. How can she live on when she doesn't want a future without her? In this story watch as death becomes a central figure because in this life, no body means no crime. Read the first book in the Hillside Series, No Body, No Crime. This is Aurora's story. may contain smut started-29/01/24 completed-30/09/24