Texas Stories

Zoe is a teenage girl convicted of a murder she didn't commit, but that doesn't matter in the Arena of Justice. You either win your fights, or you die. ***** Seventeen-year-old Zoe never expected to find herself on the wrong side of the law, but when she's convicted of a murder she didn't commit, she's sentenced to the Arena of Justice - the home of gladiator matches where murderers fight murderers, and every fight ends with a death. Zoe's plan for surviving is simple: ignore the other inmates and fly under the radar until it's time to fight, but that's easier said than done. As hard as she tries to hate those she must kill, Zoe soon befriends the other inmates and falls in love - a deadly proposition when a moment's hesitation can prove fatal. It's up to Zoe to save her life, no matter how hard the system is trying to kill her. [[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]]

ORGINALLY A 'PAID' STORY. NOW PUBLISHED ON AMAZON/KU *** 4 CHAPTER SAMPLE HERE *** When the biker gang calls in a Jake Bryant's debt, he has no choice but to hunt down an old friend by any means necessary and retrieve their stolen drugs, even if it cost him the woman he loves. ***** Time has run out for Jake Bryant. The Devil's Hand motorcycle gang has cashed in the debt he owes them. Jake must hunt down his old friend, Rick, to retrieve the million dollars worth of heroin he stole from the gang. Soon, Jake finds himself double-crossing both Rick and the Devil's Hand, but his true loyalties will be tested when his girlfriend becomes a bargaining chip. After failing the other women in his life, will Jake finally be able to save someone he loves? [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

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(10 Installments) San Antonio. 2010. A Five-Year Relationship comes to a SCREECHING HALT in an elevator after The Company St. Patrick's Day Party. Tears rolling down her face, "It's not you. It's me. It really is. I. You. You're a wonderful, outstanding man-- friend. Friend. Male Friend, Anthony. But if you were. I don't know. A 'girl' friend and not a 'boy' friend, you may actually understand." It was then, Anthony -- Ladies' Man, Man's Man, Man About Town -- realizes he has to change. But if he plans on doing what he plans to do, no hearts better get broken by the end of this month. IT's NOT YOU... IT's ME is a male-lead, early 21st Century, Rom-Com period piece. Heavily inspired by the Shakespearean Comedies and Petrarchan Love Sonnets. ANTONY's PLAYLIST: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5X1frV2u5UdBHkawM4-x7TtJFKRLKuiw&si=NWlc3mWyZktjypMx

Fourteen years ago, three-year-old Tate Russo disappeared without a trace after a visit with his father. While the world slowly moved on, his young Australian mother, Airlie Russo, never did. Every birthday, every Christmas, every passing year, she held onto one belief-that her son was still alive. Now sixteen, the boy known as TJ has no memory of the life that was stolen from him. Raised under a different name, he believes his mother died long ago and has built a life of his own in Florida, surrounded by friends, hockey, baseball, and the only parent he's ever known. Everything changes in an instant when a devastating accident leaves him fighting for his life. As doctors struggle to treat his complex injuries, including a life-changing amputation, missing medical records and dangerous medication allergies uncover a shocking truth that no one saw coming. Suddenly, TJ isn't just an injured teenager-he's Tate Russo, a child who vanished fourteen years ago. As long-buried secrets come to light, Tate must face the heartbreaking reality that everything he believed about his past was a lie. Torn between the father who raised him and the family who never stopped searching, he'll have to decide where he truly belongs. A Mother's Fight is a powerful story of love, loss, resilience, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and her son.

Imagine being only 17 years old living in the big city of Texas. 27 year old Ace, the most dangerous drug dealer of Houston, had just been released from prison for murder, and who would've known 17 year old Marsai would be the reason why he was sent away. She will run into him and face many obstacles that will try to spill her truth. Will he find out? What will be the outcome? Love or death? Witness or protection?

Bailey Carter thought six months away from Texas would change something, maybe she'd come back different. Now she's back in the same small town full of late-night fights, gossip, and people who know each other a little too well. But between chaotic bonfire nights, old memories, and the friends she missed more than she'll ever admit, Bailey starts falling right back into the life she tried convincing herself she'd outgrown. But coming home means facing more than just old friendships and unresolved feelings. In a town where everybody knows your business and trouble waits around every corner, Bailey starts realizing that growing up might mean deciding who she wants to be before this place decides for her. Because sometimes home isn't the place that keeps you safe, sometimes it's the place that changes you forever.

[Percy Jackson fanfiction. Annabeth Chase x OC] Everett Teresi was nothing but a cowboy. Just a boy from Texas. Until one fateful hunting trip with his mom changes his world forever. How will he deal with endless prophecies and endless wars? Can he balance small town living with greek life? Can he even survive? And the biggest question of all: Who is his father?

**LITTLE BLACK MAFIA PRINCESS** *An enemies-to-lovers Black mafia romance dripping in danger, bloodlines, betrayal, and forbidden power.* Suki Anna Rey is not a helpless mafia bride. She is the spoiled, lethal, curvy Black daughter of an East Texas crime kingpin-raised on guns, designer clothes, family loyalty, and the kind of secrets that get people buried before sunrise. Then Dominicus Antonio Cantania walks into her father's house. DAC. The Ferryman. A cold, blue-eyed mafia butcher with the right and wrong bloodlines, Cantania power, and a reputation that makes grown men lower their voices. He is dangerous, controlled, ruthless... and suddenly, Suki's forced husband. What starts as a mafia arrangement turns into a war. Old blood feuds rise from the grave. Hidden heirs crawl out of the shadows. Family secrets expose the truth behind Suki's bloodline, DAC's real father, and the reason every powerful man wants to control the Little Black Mafia Princess. But Suki is done being traded, claimed, protected, or moved across anybody's board. They wanted a bride. They got a bloodline. They wanted a bridge. They got a storm. And when Valerio Cantania tries to steal her, break DAC, and crown himself king, Suki must decide who deserves to stand beside her-and who deserves to fall. A dark mafia romance for readers who love **forced marriage, enemies to lovers, Black heroine romance, interracial mafia romance, possessive antihero, powerful heroine, family secrets, forbidden love, crime family drama, betrayal, revenge, arranged marriage romance, Wattpad mafia romance, BWWM romance, and dangerous love stories**. **She is not his property. He is not her savior. Together, they are war.**

Christopher Laurence Marquez understands systems better than he understands people. As an engineering student newly arriving in Texas, he trusts timing, structure, and observable patterns. Most things can be explained if examined carefully enough. Systems stabilize. Adjustments happen. Life continues. Then orientation week changes direction. What begins as ordinary proximity with Brandon and Blake Hayes - identical twins at the center of Texas football culture - gradually becomes something Christopher cannot fully organize into logic. Brandon moves through the world with immediate momentum. Blake with quiet precision. One expands the atmosphere around him. The other steadies it. Somewhere between them, Christopher finds himself answering faster, staying longer, and noticing them before he means to. The connection does not arrive dramatically. It builds through repetition: shared routines, recognition patterns, quiet reassurance, late-night conversations, and the growing realization that some people begin to feel emotionally familiar before you fully understand why. As football visibility expands across campus and beyond it, Christopher struggles to balance overstimulation, attention, and the terrifying possibility of becoming emotionally reachable inside a world that never seems to slow down. Because Christopher has spent most of his life preparing for eventual distance. But Brandon and Blake keep returning. Again. And again. And again.

BEST FRIENDS TO LOVERS. A COLLEGE ROMANCE. Loe is developing a mixed crush on her childhood best friend. As she starts her first semester at UT Austin, Loe tries to bottle up her crush-but her feelings are growing every time she's with him. It becomes impossible to prevent it, so she accepts her feelings and she's plotting to get his attention.

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Six months of silence. One phone call. And suddenly Payton is standing in the hospital room of the man she had to let go. John Baltimore found the Lord- just too late for her ultimatum. Now he's paralyzed, furious and telling her to leave. She keeps showing up anyway. Because loving someone stubbornly isn't always wrong....... A Change of Events - a Christian romance about second chances, broken pride and the kind of love that stays even when it isn't asked to.

All Diane Curtis ever wanted was a sister. Growing up in a house ruled by three loud, impossible brothers, that didn't seem like too much to ask. She found her almost-sister in Sandy, her best friend. But now there are whispers. And suddenly, Sandy's being sent to Florida. Diane doesn't know the whole story, just that it has something to do with Soda, and that no one will look her in the eye when she asks. As if losing Sandy wasn't enough, Dallas Winston keeps hanging around.... Along with someone Diane isn't sure is a friend or foe..

"Are you happy to be working for me?" "Im happy I have a job." My yes on his tie, he leans down, my finger lift my chin for me to look at him, I avert my eyes looking away from him. "Look at me." I shake my head, "My job does not require for me to look at you." My chest rising and falling so fast, he grabs my chin roughly, "Look at me." He demands, tears flooding my eyes, I look at him. "Good girl." My hand on his chest I push him away gently, "Ill go get your coffee." I say quietly walking away from him and out of the office, my hands on the counter ordering his coffee the way he likes it. "I need a Vanilla hazelnut cappachino with a shot of espresso." Come on you can do this, he is playing mind games with you, just breath and keep your distance the best you can... I head back into the office, I knock on his door and walk in. He smiles watching me set the coffee down. "Anything else I can do for you?" He nods, I watch his hand push a book off his desk, "Pick that up." Anger filling me, bite your tongue Emma.... I kneel down picking up the book, papers fall out as I stand back up, Evan chuckles. I hate him! I kneel backdown picking the papers up putting the back in the book and set them down on the desk. "Anything else?"

What could moving to a new city bring you? Drama? Tears? How about love? "New Heat" follows 16 year old Maverick as he moves to Dawson County with his family during the start of Junior Year. In the mist of trying to get used to a new environment he meets the star football player, Lorenzo, whose life is anything but perfect. The two begin to explore life together, something that isn't normal to either of them.

A story where love is shared on the court between Carter Bryant and Devyn Areceli. Except, the two don't realize the fine line between being platonic and romantic.

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Just an Average Story By Donald Teller Most people will never be famous. They'll work, raise families, make mistakes, chase opportunities, lose people they love, and wonder if they made the right choices. This is one of those lives. From growing up in rural Michigan to building a career hundreds of miles away in Texas, Just an Average Story follows one man's journey through family, friendship, failure, success, heartbreak, and the quiet moments that shape who we become. Written with honesty, humor, and very little sugarcoating, these chapters explore the people who left lasting marks, the roads taken-and the ones left behind. Along the way are stories of love, loss, career changes, unexpected adventures, and the realization that sometimes the place you've been trying to escape is the place you've belonged all along. This isn't the story of a celebrity. It isn't the story of a hero. It's just the story of an ordinary life. And maybe that's what makes it worth telling.

A Texas homicide detective and a former small-town sheriff from Rhode Island become partners in the fight against crime. When a series of murders begins to unfold in Dallas-murders that, at first glance, seem completely unrelated-they are assigned to the case. The only thing linking the victims is a bullet to the head..., and a killer who always stays one step ahead.