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One year. One fake relationship. A million reasons to walk away.Chelsea never expected a minor fender bender to turn into a major life detour. Especially not when the man behind the wheel is Crew Hastings-the arrogant Hollywood heartthrob she hasn't seen since high school and would happily go another lifetime without.But when the accident reunites her with a familiar four-legged friend, Chelsea finds herself agreeing to the most ridiculous proposition of her life.One year.That's how long Crew's beloved dog, Dolly, has left. And with a demanding career that keeps him away from home, he's willing to pay Chelsea an obscene amount of money to spend that year caring for her.For a girl who's spent most of her adult life barely scraping by, the offer is impossible to refuse.Living under the same roof as Crew, however, might just kill her first.He's infuriating. Self-absorbed. Insufferably handsome. And entirely too accustomed to getting whatever he wants.Including, apparently, a girlfriend.When Crew's picture-perfect Hollywood romance comes crashing down, his desperate attempt to salvage his reputation leads to another outrageous proposal. All Chelsea has to do is smile for the cameras, hold his hand, and convince the world they're madly in love.One night. One event. One harmless little lie.Until one night becomes another, pretend kisses start feeling dangerously real, and the lines between what's staged and what's genuine become impossible to distinguish.But Chelsea and Crew share more than a complicated past.They share a tragedy neither has ever truly escaped.And as the secrets they've spent years burying begin to resurface, Chelsea discovers that the hardest part of loving a man who plays the hero for a living is convincing him he doesn't have to be one.They agreed to one year.But sometimes life has other plans.…

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Alyssa Barnes must conquer her monsters or risk becoming one herself - but gang leader Daimon Kross might be a dangerous distraction. ***** Past traumas have taught Alyssa Barnes to not shy away from dangerous men and to show no fear, not even when she encounters the deadly biker gang leader, Daimon Kross. But the notorious Kross bikers may not be all they seem to be, and Alyssa might not be the only one with secrets to protect. Will the power struggle lead to bloodshed? In ways she never expected, Alyssa finds out that sometimes love doesn't just bite...it howls. Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of sexual activity, abuse, self-harm, and suicide that may be triggering for some readers.[[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]Read Fatal Contingencies (Book 2, the Fatal Trilogy Series) here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/142024187-fatal-contingencies-book-2-the-fatal-trilogyCover designed by Ren T…

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Growing up with a nickname like Misery can seem like the worst thing to happen to a girl. That is, until you find out that your father is a serial killer. Ten years after escaping the town that would never allow her to escape her father's dark shadow, Missouri Jacobs returns to Faulkner Montana with one mission in mind. She needs to settle her family's estates, then she can take that money and start a new life, maybe even with a new name, someplace no one knows her or the stories that surrounded her family. However, returning to her childhood home brings back all of the memories Missouri has been spending years trying to forget. And a chance run in with a boy she once loved with all of her heart makes not drowning in those memories over and over even harder. All set to leave, Missouri wants nothing more than to put Faulkner and everything that happened there truly in the past once and for all, but then...Another girl goes missing. Then another. Then another. Wrapped in a fog of déjà vu and separating the present from her past, Missouri is determined not to be blindsided this time. This new killer might be playing games with her, but this time, she's going to be the one to end this all, or she'll die trying.…

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I was sure the worst thing to ever happen to me would be being kidnapped, and sure, that was pretty bad. However, what was worse was being kidnapped, held captive for years, and then being auctioned off to the highest bidder. I thought maybe I had caught a little break when I found out that me and five other girls were being sold to royalty, but I should have known something about that wasn't right either.Under the cover of eternal darkness, and deep beneath the ground, was a whole world I never even dreamed existed in my wildest dreams. It was a world that promised to be more than anything I could imagine. The people who bought us told us we would have the luxurious life of a princess, but there were only two catches...1. We would be competing against each other for the affection of the Prince who would change our whole lives by picking one of us to rule at his side.2. That prince just happened to be a vampire.…

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Imagine that you go to bed tonight and in the morning you wake up to find that four years have gone by. That's exactly what happened to Cassie Clark.When she went to bed, she was only nineteen years old, but when she wakes up thousands of miles from home and all alone in a New York City hospital with no memory of how she got there, she's twenty four. The only memories Cassie has are of her everyday boring wholesome life back home in South Carolina, but when she wakes up she's confronted with the fact that the last four years of her life have been anything but boring or wholesome. Being in New York with no money, no family, no friends, and no job is scary enough, but now good girl Cassie is left with nothing but the pieces of a past that she can't believe could actually belong to her and the mystery of what led to her being found beaten nearly to death in an old deserted warehouse. To top it all off, the only person who seems to care about Cassie anymore is a boyfriend who she doesn't even know. Owen Tracer was nothing more than a player and a thug. Girl after girl and working for the mysterious 'business' had left him burnt out and tired of his own life. He was ready to get out, take the money he'd earned before it got him killed, and go straight, but the business had one last job for him to do before he was free. Tasked with posing as the boyfriend to a girl who had somehow tangled herself in a business mess, Owen goes to the hospital prepared to feel her out for any information she may have and to get rid of her if she knew too much. What he wasn't prepared for was finding that the girl was none other than Cassie Clark. Not only did he know the girl, but he couldn't stand her. However, the Cassie he finds isn't anything like the one he remembers. Owen was only supposed to get close enough to find out if she was a danger to the business. He wasn't supposed to fall for her. But once he does, he's the only one who can save her.…

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Tayler has always been the model best friend. She's supportive, attentive, and sometimes too much of a pushover. She's been the supporting character to her own life, always in the shadow of her outgoing best friends, but that was before she met Hunter.Hunter is older, worldly, smart, and not to mention an incredibly good looking soldier. A chance meeting brings them together, but he's the object of Tayler's oldest best friend Jessica's attention. Tayler doesn't want to come between them, but when Hunter shows an interest in her, she decides it can't be too bad to just be friends with him, right? After all, all's fair in love and war.…

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Four years after a devastating accident, Emily Carter is finally ready to start over. In a quiet new town by the water, she's determined to live life on her own terms-free from the whispers, the pity, and the fragments of memory that never quite fit.But when she receives a friend request from Cole Andrews, the man she once loved and lost, her fragile peace begins to crack. Cole seems different now-gentler, steadier, almost like the version of him she always wished existed. As their connection rekindles, so do her nightmares: the sound of rushing water, the glint of headlights, the feeling of being pulled under.Someone-or something-is urging her to remember what really happened that night. And the closer Emily gets to the truth, the more she begins to wonder if the past ever truly lets go.…

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Alyssa and Daimon's future is in deep trouble when his dead fiancée comes back to life and the alpha of the top pack, Pablo, threatens to come for their blood. *****Daimon's long-lost fiancée, Stacey, who was believed to be dead the last five years, has escaped from her captors and returned to him, frail and injured. As Alyssa watches the man she loves tend to her, she struggles to figure out where she fits in the pack and with Daimon. Meanwhile, danger looms with the most cold-blooded alpha on the hunt for the one and only Shewolf...Alyssa. Can she escape fast enough on her motorbike, or should she stay to fight for the love she deserves?Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of violence and sexual activity, and mentions suicide, rape and sexual assault, which may be triggering for some readers.[[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]Cover designed by Ren T…

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With Alyssa stuck behind enemy lines and the fate of the pack hanging, tensions are higher than ever in this final installment of the Fatal Trilogy. *****Book 3 begins right where Book 2 left off, with Alyssa captured and brought to the top pack's lair in Montreal. Unsure of Daimon and the rest of the pack's fate, Aly has no choice but to start finding ways to free herself and her baby from the grasps of the top pack and their leader, Pablo. Meanwhile, what's left of Daimon's pack scrambles to come up with a plan to rescue their girl and take down the top pack for good.Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of violence and sexual activity, and mentions rape and sexual abuse, which may be triggering for some readers.[[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]Cover designed by Ren T…

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**shortlisted for Wattys2017**Technically speaking, I died when I was seventeen.What should have been just another typical day out on the water with my friends, turned ugly fast when a freak storm came out of nowhere and I was thrown overboard. Had it not been for my damned dress, I could have swam to safety, but no, every day had to be a fashion show, and my dress got caught on rocks, holding me down until I drowned.I thought right before I died I would at least get to see a montage of my fabulous life, all the parties and romantic dates with my perfect boyfriend, Asher, but nope again. Instead, all I saw was a hideous sea monster smiling to me as my lungs filled with water. When I woke up in a cave in the middle of the ocean, that sea witch made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I could go back to my perfect life, and my adorable boyfriend, all I had to do was give the sea witch two years of my service, and then she'd free me from my fate.It seemed easy enough at the time, but can the price to live actually come at too high of a cost?Highest rank #5 in paranormal…

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Malikah knows her place. It's with the other defects in the outer rings. In her world where perfection and Unitarianism are the only options, and all who don't fit the mold live out their lives in the slums of the outer rings she's used to doing whatever it takes to survive another day. Fighting in the pits and helping out at the baker's hut has become her daily routine for so long that Malikah doesn't expect anything out of the ordinary. But that's exactly what she gets. With her hard earned savings in hand, ready to buy her own pair of shoes she goes to the market place, but instead of shoes, a mysterious necklace seems to literally be calling to her, begging her to buy it. She does.And her whole life changes. With the help of a handsome stranger and a insanely strange group of people who say she belongs with them, Malikah may just find that she doesn't know her place after all and her world, might not be the only one there is. Thrust into adventure filled with strange creatures, Gods, betrayal, destiny, and maybe even love, Malikah must stay true to herself if she wants to not only save the world, but fulfill her destiny.…

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We all knew this was the end. We've seen the movies, and read the books. Once the ship shows up, that marks the beginning of the end. Now of course in movies we always have a scrappy little group that manages to defy all the odds and find a way to stop the intruders to our planet in the nick of time, but real life just doesn't work that way. In real life, the aliens show up, the people die. That was a fact. We knew this was the event that would end us, our extinction was upon us. What I hadn't expected, was to survive it....…

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***Sequel to 'Roses for Rachel'***Everything has changed, and the stakes are twice as high.Rachel's story continues.....…

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When blood is involved, no one is safe.Book #3 in the Rachel Series…

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After losing her brother in a terrible accident, the last thing Cadence James wants to do is move to a new town in the middle of her junior year of high school. Cadence hates everything about Swanford, Missouri. There is no nightlife, no beaches, and the people...Don't even get her started on the people. She didn't think she'd be able to find anyone here that could understand her, but then she met Garrett.Garrett McDuffie and his family were the wealthiest people in town. Garret was freakishly handsome, incredibly smart, and a star athlete. All of these things should make him the most popular guy around, but instead he was known to be a loner. Cadence is quickly drawn to him, but the closer she gets the more she starts to wonder about him and his strange family. Are the skeletons in Garrett's closet ones like Cadence's, or are they something different entirely? Something...not human?Highest Rank #5 in Paranormal…

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**Now published with Tapas**Nineteen year old Sienna Mathews' world is falling apart fast.She had what most would have thought was a good life.A great dad and an attentive boyfriend. A nice quiet existence in a small town.That, however, was before the girls began to disappear. Sienna's small town in Stoneacre, Alabama was being plagued by the mysterious kidnappings of local teens. What's even more disturbing than that? How about throwing in that all of the girls being taken look just like Sienna? As Sienna realizes she is being stalked by someone, and girls are continuing to vanish, she is lead to begin to question all of the people in her life.Who can be trusted?Who does she really know?Will she find out before it is too late, or is her fate sealed with the rest of them?Highest Rank #46 in Mystery/Thriller*All Rights Reserved***Copyrighted**Incredible cover by the amazing @joeyness_ :)…