Good luck homing pigeon

Good luck homing pigeon

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"Once upon a time, my entire world seemed like a dream. It was no wonder they called Paris the city of love; because sometimes, you just couldn't help but love it. No matter how much it rejected, betrayed, and turned us away, I would always love Paris the way I remembered it. Before it was stolen from us." Kate was grateful she got to have one good birthday. One, last good memory before it all happened. Before the German soldiers performed one of the biggest round-ups, known to World war two. Before nearly forty thousand Jews were deported from Paris. Before Kate, and her family were kicked out of their own city, their own country, and shipped to one of the most notorious concentration camps in Poland. Despite their ill luck, Kate remains forever hopeful. But even the hopeful aren't entirely naïve. Ever since she was a child, Kate has always wanted to be a hero. One of the heroines in her stories, to be specific. But what she doesn't know yet is that she is destined to become part of something bigger. With a boy she gradually realises she's in love with, and newfound friends in unexpected places, can Kate set out to save those she loves and more? Or will her decisions render the lives of not only thousands, but her own?…

In love with my enemy (book one in the angel and the rebel trillogy) {under editing}

In love with my enemy (book one in the angel and the rebel trillogy) {under editing}

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The year is 1945; a time for liberation and happiness. But for the beautiful, but quiet Hazel, it is anything but. Hazel has spent the past sixteen years of her life in isolated loneliness. She is constantly guarded by her sister Audrey, who fears that a traumatic part of Hazel's past may come back to hurt her. But when her past does return in the form of the handsome, out-spoken Nicholas Koster, Hazel's life changes forever.As she get's to know a boy who was once her tormentor, She finds that her and Nick have more in common than she imagined. And when their unlikely friendship develops into something more, Hazel has a decision to make. Can she keep on living in fear? Or will falling in love with her biggest enemy really change the way she lives her life forever?…

They called me Betti

They called me Betti

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Betti Elbe; sunny, bright, witty and kind. Betti was good at taking the worst life could throw at her then turning it into something good. Betti did her best to see the good in everybody she met. The soldiers that kept her and her family, trapped between the walls of the Krakow Ghetto. The cruel, drunken housewife who beats her as she watches Betti rear her children. The men who separate her from her beloved family. Every time, Betti has found something to cling to. Some sliver of hope in a bleak, lonely world. But when Betti loses something she thought she'd never have to live without, her will to live is put to question. Will Betti be just another casualty? Or will she soldier through the sorrow and find just one, more silver-lining?…

A girl and her camera

A girl and her camera

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Martha Gillespie was pretty much, like all teenage girls. She had good friends, a wonderful family, and a talent for film-making. One day, Martha wanted to be the biggest, independent film-maker Europe had ever seen! But when her, and her loved ones get caught up in the perils of war, Martha's fate changes completely.Forced by the Nazi's to make a documentary, surrounding the Ghetto's conditions, Martha is made to travel in and out of the ghetto, and somehow, to find a way to make the frightful conditions of the Warsaw Ghetto look 'happy and healthy'. Thrown into one law-breaking task after the other, Martha has no idea how to pull herself out of the depths of war, alive. But can she, and the boy she's grown to love, swim or sink, together?…

What bullying did to me

What bullying did to me

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Short story on my experience with bullying, as I am happy to support this cause…

He made me his (Harry Styles)

He made me his (Harry Styles)

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"He made me his. I'm not sure why he did it, or what he wants so much. All I know is that he owns me now; my body, my mind, and now my life"Beth Vanderpark was just a quiet, studious fifteen year old, that was until her parents shifted her and her sister off to the suburbs of Holmes Chapel. There she meets her next-door neighbour, the one and only Harry Styles. Harry is the school's bad-boy, the player who could have any girl he wished for and toss them away to move on to his next victim. As soon as he see's Beth he realises that he wants her; not just for a meaningless fling, but to keep forever. Beth tries to stay away from him but he's determined to have her, at any cost.…

the demons stepsister

the demons stepsister

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Hidden information that is rarely found in History books tells existance of a demonous creature that has existed all the way from adam and eve's time. This creature is an advanced version of a succubus but bears one differance; it has no humanity in it's soul what so ever. In this time we call it a myth, but in adam and eve's time they called it Demonia.Demonia has reincarnated herself through decendants of the original beast; each decendant preparing their evil generations to come for the rebirth of the original soul, for the rebirth of the original Demonia. Legend says that only four sources of good can end Demonia once and for all, and end all future generations of Demonia spawns to come.Polly Bright is no ordinary teen. She has three best friends who; like her, share the same resentment for Polly's stepsister Cassandra. But little do they know Cassandra is hiding a dark secret; something so dangerous and powerful that put's Polly, Ivy, Piper and Louise in serious danger. Will they give in to Cassandra's power? Or will they uncover some strong powers of their own that when combined, become the biggest source of power that anyone will ever know.…