Last Christmas

Last Christmas

187 5 2

"This was it. Our last Christmas as a family. There was something so bittersweet about the thought that it brought tears to my eyes."When Noelle Hart is called back to her hometown for one last Christmas with her family before her father's health declines further, she hops on the first plane out and back home. Being back home and having to tell her family of the nasty breakup she'd had with her ex-who they all adored-is just the beginning of her string of bad luck. After arriving, her brother tells her there's no room back at the house for her to stay for the next month-and she'll have to take his room at his loft a few blocks away. The very loft he shares with his very scroogey best friend Elijah Connor, that's teased Noelle since they were kids. With one last Christmas to bask in her father's presence and memories of the past, Noelle is nothing like the little girl who'd spent every year prior dancing around to old Christmas songs and decorating the tree and house with her little cousins. And Elijah has vowed to stop at nothing to bring his little elf back.…

The Truth About Liars

The Truth About Liars

529 24 4

Class A Pessimist Brooklyn Foster-everyone's very own funsized scrooge every Christmas.Christopher Harris- her older sister's childhood best friend. Sweet, kind, and loved by everyone, it shouldn't be a surprise when he's invited to her family's holiday party. After a few drinks too many, Brooklyn stumbles and falls right off the stairs and onto Christopher, accidently knocking them into a pile of snow and kissing him. Thanks to her amazing sister offering Chris the empty guest room at Brooke's apartment, she's stuck with the man for the next three weeks and into the new year. And when her sister comes to both letting them know of everyone's assumptions of their relationship status, the two singles decide to stick with the rumor-only for the holiday season of course. What Brooke doesn't expect is for the big oaf to weasel his happy little butt under her skin-and he'll stop at nothing to ensure she has the perfect Christmas.…

This Is How To Be A Heartbeaker

This Is How To Be A Heartbeaker

166 9 3

Bookworm Sky Donovan wanted no more than to skate through high school as the girl they never noticed. Being best friends with the Queen Bee Aliyah Donohue, she had enough attention to last her a lifetime. But after losing a bet at the end of summer, Sky finds herself being thrusted into a dreamlike daze of crop tops, tight jeans, and. . . gasp. . . makeup. Stepping through the doors of her high school Senior year should be like every year prior-except its not. Now all attention is on her, sending her to the top of the social food chain and right into the expectant hands of the popular kids she'd spent so long trying to avoid. And when the only person who seems to be unimpressed and wanting her to revert back to her old, introverted ways is the loner with secrets buried so deep nobody has ever been willing to try and break him down to find, Sky finds herself at war between who she used to be, who she is, and who she wants to be.…

A Kiss From A Rose

A Kiss From A Rose

91 5 4

Five years ago seventeen year old Kieran Blackwell disappeared without a trace. Twenty-two year old Rosealie Callahan wants nothing more than to escape the confinement of her small town after the passing of her father. She is gifted just that-an escape to an old mansion in the hills over an hour out of town. Despite the creepy exterior and even worse interior, Rose finds herself drawn to the allure of the grand library and strange paintings lining the halls. The last thing she expected was to find Kieran in the basement- or for him to be plagued by his demons. Only, they're not just the metaphorical kind. Kieran Blackwell has been cursed with the Seven Deadly Sins, and the only way to rid himself of the curse is to unleash the sins on seven unlucky souls who he must manipulate into willingly collecting the sins. With a ticking clock, a wicked curse, and a game of morals, Rose realizes there may be more to the story- and something far more sinister may lurk in the shadows.A Seven Deadly Sin/Beauty and the Beast Retelling)…

More Than Words

More Than Words

185 13 8

Certified black sheep Adeline Chase is struggling her way through college with a dead end job and her love life nonexistent. Outcasted by her peers and family, she finds peace in a small family owned bookstore. Checking out a book for a report, the last thing Adeline expects is to be transported into the book. Literally. Only when she comes too seconds later in her lecture hall, she chalks it all up as sleep deprivation.Her short lived hope is whisked away when she picks up up a new romantasy novel she checked out and wakes up on the cold cell for of a dungeon. Now trapped in a fantastical world of dragons, kingdoms, and morally grey warriors, and wayward Princes, Adeline must figure out a way out of the book...before she becomes trapped between the lines forever.…

Somewhere In Between

Somewhere In Between

889 84 10

Surviving college should be nineteen year old Danielle Mason's biggest worry. Being the daughter of NFL star James Pierce and renowned lawyer Harley Mason has made Danni's life anything but normal. With paparazzi and vulture reporters around every corner, Danielle is no stranger to stalkers. But when she starts noticing a man sitting in his car just outside her college campus every day, she realizes that this may not be just a stranger-but someone that could possibly know her and her family personally. Sebastian Reyes has a reputation as bad as his attitude, and stops at nothing to prove his worth in academics in order to remain at school on his scholarship. Catching the man watching Danielle after a few days, Sebastian makes his presence known and pretends to be her boyfriend in order to scare him off. Always in the public eye, of course they're seen and the lie escalates to keep reporters off their back. But when the stalker insists on continuing to harass and stalk Danni in every form, she enlists Sebastian's help to try and get to the bottom of who he might be. But the answer is something far worse than she could have ever imagined. (This book is a spinoff to Everything In Between but CAN be read as a standalone.)…

Til' Death

Til' Death

1,056 115 16

"I can't say I do when I, well, don't."Twenty-two year old Madison Rose Hewitt lived and breathed fairytales. She fell in love with her high school sweetheart, had the perfect wedding planned down to the finest of details, and her future laid out before her. Until she walks in on her fiance with her older sister on her wedding night. Two years later and Madison has sworn off love altogether and despite her brother's protest, knows it won't change anytime soon. But when she is forced to attend the wedding of the very people who drove a knife through her back to appease her parents, her life is thrown upside down. Forced to spend a five hour flight in the company of her older brother's best friend-the one person on Earth she hates about as much as her sister and ex fiance-she puts her money on things not getting any worse. Two weeks in the same house watching the man you swore your love and heart too loving on your sister makes one irrational, and Madison may just make the biggest mistake of her life-or be blessed with the greatest gift.…

Happier Than Ever

Happier Than Ever

429 41 8

"I'm happier than ever in this hell I'm living in."…

Happily Never After

Happily Never After

184 15 8

Cameron Ford's stream of bad luck started the day she was born-and wasn't the little boy her parents had been promised. Now seventeen and the only single, socially-unaccepted person in her friend group-Cami hesitantly agrees to attend Homecoming with her friends. But thanks to her infuriating neighbor and longtime evil devil spawn nemesis, Carson Reed, she ends up humiliating herself in front of an entire auditorium full of her peers. Vowing to never step foot outside the house again when she goes home that night, she sits to write her essay, gets momentarily distracted by a book on her bookshelf, and wishes to once in her life experience the easiness of the lives of her favorite characters. She wakes up the next morning to find her entire bedroom had changed-and she no longer lives in the same house. As the day goes on, she realizes that her wish may have just come true. Basking in the new fantasy world would be fun if she didn't have Carson still being a royal pain in her life-or Varsity Quarterback Beckham Young with his eyes on her. Life for the quiet bookworm has become something straight out of one of her books, but with the good comes the bad and the ugly, and Cami starts to realize she should have been careful what she wished for.…

The Night We Met

The Night We Met

204 14 6

Isabelle Baker and Jacob Carter are connected by one horrific event that shattered their perfect families when they were seven. Now eighteen and wallowing in self-deprecation after her father's death, Isabelle vows to drive clear across the country to confront her mother in person. Well, she had until she almost hits a very intoxicated Jacob Carter on the interstate as he crosses the bridge to catapult himself off the side of it.With no desire to throw her own plans out the window, she decides to try and drop him off at a hospital. Refusing, she offers the alternative of him joining her on her week trip to New York City. With no hope or desire to live, he agrees. Unfortunately for Isabelle, the boy she once knew is long gone and now a depressed, suicidal man is in his place. Vowing to prove to him that life is worth living, even if she's a horrible mess herself, she extends the trip for stops along the way to try and give him the hope he so desperately needs. But the closer she gets to New York, her own demons are starting to consume her and she realizes the trip is just as much for her as it is for him.…

Sailing Skies

Sailing Skies

172 4 2

To live would be an awfully big adventure.After skating by the skin of her teeth out of an accident on her eighteenth birthday, the last thing college freshman Gwen Matthews wants to do is play to tour guide to two ridiculously attractive new transfers. With an undeniable, inexplainable connection with both men, Gwen is left reeling in the fine line between fantasy and reality.…

The Kiss List

The Kiss List

3,847 154 18

"Every Kill begins with K."Cassandra Cole wanted nothing more than a quiet weekend to herself. That was before her mother volunteered her for the kissing booth at the local carnival for the weekend. Kissing random guys wasn't at the top of Cassie's to-do list, but she agreed. Following a long, gruel weekend, the last thing she needs is for her obnoxious next door neighbor Layne Walker to find the small list she'd made of the guys she'd kissed over the last seventy-two hours and thought about talking to at school Monday.With nothing more than a notebook of activities for Cassandra to complete before he tells them, she must complete the list before winter break. Four months, twenty things to do, one kissing booth, and a whole lot of anger issues and Cassandra realizes that there's more than one four letter word that begins with k.…

50 Things I Hate About You (COMPLETED)

50 Things I Hate About You (COMPLETED)

9,282 614 29

"I hate the fact that you made me love you."Movie buff Aurora Grace never thought she'd be living her own 90s movie rip off.Aurora hates her next door neighbor Onyx Hayes with a passion. From his devil may care attitude to his inability to keep his hands to himself, she's made a list of every single thing she hates about the popular idiot. And when Onyx himself gets his hands on it, he makes it his goal to try and turn every reason of hate into one of love. Thus begins his challenge of trying to change his quirky neighbors opinion by the end of Senior year. What neither expect is to develop a friendship, a commonship, and maybe something more.…

Everything In Between (COMPLETED)

Everything In Between (COMPLETED)

18,257 755 42

Twenty-three year old Harley Mason has known nothing but hospital bills and debt the last three years. A full time mother, student, and working two jobs, she finds no time for anything outside of the necessities needed in life. She has one goal and will stop at nothing to achieve it. Get full custody back of her three year old daughter. But her world is turned upside down and inside out when she walks into what she thought was an empty men's bathroom during a heated argument with her mother. James Pierce is months away from being drafted into the NFL despite an injury setback a year prior. With no desire to settle down and be a family man, it takes one look at the crying girl for the thought to be questioned. And when an incident at a club leaves the two alone and bleeding in the front seat of his car, the last thing they expect is to find they share a common agenda and may need one another to finally achieve the end goal.(NOT EDITED)…

As It Was (COMPLETED) (wattys2023)

As It Was (COMPLETED) (wattys2023)

5,502 509 42

Seventeen-year-old senior Everly Hope Rodgers wants nothing more than a normal year after the traumatic events that took place right before summer vacation. The hope for normal is short lived as her parents have uprooted her and moved a state away and thrust into a big city and enrolled her into a pretentious private school. Unfortunately for her, news of the events that took place had been broadcasted nationwide, and she's left the outsider with a dark past with people hiding from her around every corner. Finally coming to terms with the horrific series of events that nearly left her dead, Everly finds sanctuary in her eccentric art teacher and athlete Garrett Brooks, and enlists the help of her sweet psychiatrist to try and break it down to the root of it all and if it could have been prevented But for a girl who is caught in the grey area between right and wrong and reporters circling like vultures everywhere she turns, can she navigate her way through high school, or more importantly, the rest of her life?…

Ghosted (completed)

Ghosted (completed)

763 81 19

"I see dead people or whatever."TO BE REWRITTEN AND EXTENDED.…

Girls Like You (COMPLETED)

Girls Like You (COMPLETED)

7,784 439 33

"Girls like you ask for it."…

I Write Sins Not Tragedies (A Collection of Short Stories)

I Write Sins Not Tragedies (A Collection of Short Stories)

1,380 93 9

It's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality.…

Eleven Eleven

Eleven Eleven

117,077 4,164 29

ELEVEN ELEVEN is the world's biggest boy band. Willow Stevens is the world's biggest nobody. With high hopes of writing for Rolling Stone, she has kept her live secluded from the outside world with the exception of photography and music. What no one knows is that she used to be best friends with international heartthrob Alexander Cruise of ELEVEN ELEVEN. When ex-best friend Xander Cruise gets into an accident and can't remember anything after his twelfth birthday, she is thrown into a chaotic world and past she hadn't wanted to go back to. Throw in a crazy road trip around the country to try and jog his memories, four crazy, incredibly obnoxious teenage boys, and millions of fans, Willow realizes maybe helping Xander and getting the article done won't be as easy as she once thought.Cover by @pepsiguana…

How To Kill Ryder Blake (COMPLETED)

How To Kill Ryder Blake (COMPLETED)

14,787 641 31

"If you have a heart, I need you to kill me."***********Zoey Summers; the seventeen year old girl with no desire to grow up.Ryder Blake; the eighteen year old residential bad boy and boy next door. When Ryder is diagnosed with leukemia days after summer break, Zoey finds herself confronted by the local bad boy begging her to kill him. Zoey soon finds herself dragged into a long list of outrageous activities that Ryder threw together in order to get himself killed. And with a blooming friendship with his older brother, Zoey learns far more about the town's motorcycle riding adrenaline freak than she would have ever thought possible. Bucket lists, death attempts, unrequited feelings, childhood crushes leave Zoey with a summer she'll never forget.…