She was everything he wasn't, nothing he ever needed, someone he didn't deserve. But it didn't matter. Watching her serenade him, eyes bright with humour and something so tender it made his heart ache – he decided he wanted her anyway.

It's hard enough being a socially deficient, awkward-as-hell peer mediator, but add to that a stupidly gorgeous and equally terrifying delinquent whose mission in life is to make me miserable, and you start to get a picture of how incredibly screwed I am.

Pinot is just a fashionably awkward idealist who thinks she can save the whole world in one summer. North is just the cynical, sarcastic son of her father’s mistress who wants a skate-park where she wants a tree. Together they just set the world on fire.

**REMOVED AND SOON TO BE PUBLISHED! Please see my profile for details** Lara Montgomery is a do-gooder...or a dream-ruining, boyfriend stealing sl*t, it really depends who you talk to. In an attempt to atone for past sins she completes good deeds for fellow students who request her help, much to the disgust of Fletcher Townsend, the biggest past sin of them all.

Journalist Mara Gibson likes to get at the heart of a story. When local farm hand Elliot is less than accommodating, she becomes determined to figure him out. Until their tentative friendship,and undeniable attraction, begins to mean more than his past.

She ran to Ireland to escape from it all- the old flame, family drama, the social pressure of being single again. Under no circumstances whatsoever was she even thinking about romance. She just wanted peace. And then Rhys Gallagher staggered into her life

He stared down at me, eyes dark and unrelenting. "Do you want Malcolm?" Stupid question. But I nodded anyway. "Then kiss me." Talk about getting caught between a rock and a hard place. *SKoW Winner*

The seemingly unrequited crush on your best friend, the perfect romantic cliche, and you know those always work out. However, when an evil older brother, mind games, and dirty little secrets are thrown into the mix, maybe this cliche isn't that perfect...

A drunken one night stand with Alex Montgomery is a complication Adrian Blake doesn't need, especially not when he's her new stepbrother. /PUBLISHED/

For some reason, the instant Ben and Olivia meet, they hate one another. Every time they're in the same room, all they seem to do is fight and trade insults. But according to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

She’s known them both her entire life. One’s arrogant, rich, and pretends she doesn’t exist. The other’s her best friend. But when her mom remarries Chloe learns the difference between knowing a name and knowing the person behind it.

The first time I had kicked in the womb it had been when Max, a baby himself, had placed his hand against my mother's stomach. It had been the first, but certainly not the last, time I'd kicked him, and now suddenly he wasn't interested in a fight? Weird. **Removed and now available on Amazon and Smashwords!**

It's not easy to pretend you're in love for the sake of teenagers and housewives across the country but top footballer Lucas Goodspeed and shy, romantic Isobel Saunders soon discover that convincing themselves that they're not in love might be even harder. **Removed and now available on Amazon and Smashwords!**

I had known Elliot Sinclair since I was 10 and never felt any compulsion to get naked with him. What could possibly have happened last night to change that? I prodded my sozzled mind for an answer, but none was forthcoming. **Removed and now available on Amazon and Smashwords!**

Recently laid-off teacher Riley takes a job as a tutor for the child of a wealthy family. She finds herself drawn to grandson Charlie, despite her reservations and his sister's blatant contempt, for he proves himself to be more than just money. COMPLETE!

She fell in love with him the minute she saw him. No. That wasn't true. She hated him the instant he opened his mouth. That, at least, might have been a little more accurate. For the most part, anyway...*Judge's Pick Best Drama, SKoW Round 12

The teen rebel with a catch, Chelsea lives the uncharmed life. A stranger within her own family, estranged from her former best friend, (Mr. Off-To-Change-The-World), she finds the strangest solace in a crippled young man with the strangest ideals...

The moment Honey Smith sets foot in South Merritt Academy, she unknowingly becomes the target of an unspoken challenge, setting into motion a self-fulfilling prophecy that will forever change the lives of South Merritt’s Elite Five.

What not to do when trying to show you can be independent: 1. Go to a party with the girl who wants to stomp your best friend. 2. Accept Jello from said girl 3. Kiss the cutie with the anger issues and no concept of personal space. It will not end well.

Shaul Arton Lerahzon is the third prince. He is smart, handsome, and does not take 'no' for an answer. He is lethal. And he has his eyes set on me. I've been told to discourage any advances, but how can I do that when he's already slit my throat once?

When the love of her life marries someone else, Gracie has to accept reality and move on. With devastatingly attractive lawyers and cute cellists who won't go away, love shows that if it's one thing, it's unpredictable. Winner of Best Het for SKoW Round 12!

Neely Donovan isn’t interested in the whole popularity ordeal considering that her twin brother was one of the hottest guys that attended their school. But falling for the most popular guyand her bro's best friend was the last thing on her mind.

He'd never really paid her any attention, she was just his niece's babysitter. Then he heard her sing. Now, he can't get her out of his head.

What happens after the world ends? "It's you and me. Just you and me." His hands framed her face, holding onto her, and she nodded. "Just you and me," she whispered and she was so relieved that out of everyone left in the world, he was hers.

She was trapped and he happened to be the one Fate chose to set her free. Of course, no one said it was that simple.

For Noelle Preston, a life without Adrian Hastings was a good one. And she intended to keep it that way. But it turns out you really don't know someone until you wake up in bed next to them with no recollection of how you got there.

Andrew knows just how to push Liz's buttons - buttons she didn't even realize she wanted pushed until he came along.

Ash Carlisle already knows time heals all wounds--especially those requiring stitches--and if you can't beat 'em, get a restraining order. But you know what they say; you can take the girl out of the city, but it doesn't mean her troubles won't follow...

I nodded in agreement as he opened the door to one of the dryers. I blinked to myself. Did we just have a conversation about a cleaning appliance?

It'd be fair to say Madison McHale has a little trouble controlling her temper. It'd be fair to say Caine Jeffries is a little bit of a player. Insert a bet, an ultimatum, dysfunctional families, meddlesome friends... and you've got yourself a love story.

Challenge one: survive pack life. Challenge two: survive brooding, violent, loyal, and gorgeous Beta. Challenge three: try not to kiss said Beta. The curious story of a lone werewolf thrust into the visceral world of the pack.

Spies, roommates, scars, MCATS, kisses, mafiosos. Trust me, it can ALWAYS get worse.

I work four jobs, dance, and babysit almost every night of the week. So when I get home I want to sleep. Instead I have to listen to my new upstairs neighbour play the piano all night long. Who does he think he is? Famous? Ha...

When a riddle from her dead father comes in the mail, Alice Ripley learns that things like pirates, secret passages, skeleton keys, and bad guys who just might want to take over the world actually exist. Wonderland wasn't exactly what she expected.

For years, it was just me and Mom. Now all of a sudden I've got a new stepdad, a stepbrother, and my best friend's hot older brother is starting to look at me funny. Maybe he's finally noticed I'm not twelve anymore?

“Why didn’t you tell me?”I asked him tenatively. “You’re beautiful,” he murmured hazily, “when you’re angry.” Expeditiously, I blushed. And cursed the fates that had given me a best friend who still flirted even while he was drowning in pain. Ch. 16 is up

Darius prayed for patience. Aislin, the brat princess he was guarding, had ditched him yet again. He found her, eventually. Unconscious–with a tattoo the length of her back and glowing silver skin that left him entranced and quite sure she was not human.

Hi, my name is Kelsey Sanders and I'm too nice to be mean even when I think he deserves it. Even when I'm sure he broke my sister's heart. So why give him mine to do it all over again? Big mistake, Andrew Wiser told me so and he's always right. Complete!

In sixth grade, Lexa Leicester told Skyler Ashford she liked him. He left her to cry her eyes out in the hallway. Six years later Lexa tells Skyler she hates him, only this time he kisses her in front of the whole school. Confused? So is she.

..."Does that kiss have anything to do with why we're on a train to New York in the middle of the night?"

Ex-assassin Locke Koh didn't expect to see Meliza Rinaldo while vacationing in Atlantic City. Any feelings they shared in the past were gone, right? But he isn't the same man she remembers, and the casino manager needs his help as someone targets her life

Sequel to Don't Panic. When the housing offices believe that Jordan is a boy, they place her into an apartment with three guys: one a creep, one a wannabe vampire, and the last an enemy from before

She wanted the fairy tale. She wanted the chick flick. She wanted the soaring music, the dozen roses, the Princess Bride kiss-to-end-all-kisses. She wanted the cliché. It’s a pity she was so busy up in the clouds that she didn’t recognize it when it came.

UPDATED! Confrontations between insecure Constance and secretive Wolf, between cranky Luka and worried Shoe, between manic Natalie and ticked-off Shoe. A glance into Shoe's past explains some of her present. What's to happen next?

Take a girl who cheats, a guy she can't stand, and her gay, sometimes crossdressing ex. Throw in a pissed off football player, one doozy of a bet, and more money than should be handled by people like this. Mix well. Chaos, anyone?

Layla Cherezli, beautiful heiress to billions has thirty days before she is thrown into a marriage with a callous, redheaded Adonis. But will her crude hostility and temper be enough to drive away a man determined to break and make her his own? REMOVED

At thirteen they found her. At fifteen she wanted to belong. At sixteen she thought she was on top of the world. She was wrong. Now, Sable must find a way to keep her world from falling apart before she loses everything.

REMOVED. She was a blind Cinderella, and he was her Prince Charming. Only, he had no idea he would have to be her knight in shining armor, and she refused to admit that she needed his help. NaNoWriMo o8.

Someone wise once said, "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." Even I wasn't exempt from this universal understanding as HE was about to show me.

I may be somewhat strange, but he's got arrogance down to an artform. I may have thrown a rock at his car, but it's no excuse to concoct a plan to kill me. Honestly, who does he think he is? The nerve of some people. Course language, you've been warned.

Two years after peace had been declared, and every year after that, Royal Guards were dispatched to neighboring towns, and ten young men and women were chosen to live in the palace and celebrate peace and their great king. They were never seen again. Aeleisa Trilogy - Book 1

Chapter Eight! Betrayed by her best friends, Pen is expelled from her prep school. Now home in Chicago, she has to rediscover how to live her life. But her old life is not as easy to escape as she thought.

In a corporate world dominated by men, Sidney Lewis is determined to make her way to the top. She can't afford distractions, especially ones that come along in packages like her new boss, Max Lansing. But what's venture capitalism without risk?

Patrick Morrison had it good. He was socially invisible, ignored by the Neanderthals around him, and on the fast track to MIT. Then he made the mistake of getting involved in Marielle Pason's social games. But to Patrick, the only way out is to win.

Mercedes Kain was sensible, smart, and had a stick stuck up her ass. Except when she was drunk. Which got her into the mess in the first place. Now she's stuck in a faux engagement to an arrogant asshole while crushing on his enigmatic band mate. Oi vey.

Xavier is an English Lord, a soon to be Duke in fact. Since birth, he's never been denied a thing. Then he meets Liz, a cynic determined to forge her own path. In a school of rich preps, she's the only one who hates him and she's the only one he wants.

*COMPLETE* Burroughs said it best, “Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.” This is how Callum led his life until he met Marina. Maybe pleasure can be something more than relief.

I have rules when it comes to who I'll date, and he wants me to break every single one.

In the middle of a forest, stands a castle in which lives a King who, in return for protecting the town below him, takes in a mortal girl once every twenty years. Twenty years has passed. A girl is chosen. What will happen when Love gets in the way?

Avery Sanders should have been pleased that she received a full ride to Verminton University, one of the most prestigious colleges around. All goes well until she meets Jack Shanahan. He's rich, arrogant, and his father is paying for Avery's education.

The thing that Blaire wanted most was to get through high school without a lot of drama, but when one of the most arrogant and popular boys in school is your next door neighbor and won’t leave you alone, there seems little chance of that.

Complete! Between the three of us, we were probably connected to everyone in our year group and helped people meet the men or women of their dreams. But then one dream turned into a nightmare when I realised I'd fallen in love with the target…

Morgan Girancelli and Quinn Carter weren't meant to be together. Morgan has trust issues. Quinn has arrogance down to a science. They each think the other's in it for sex. True love? They said it never stood a chance. DISCONTINUED. Obviously at this point

Sayuri was the perfect woman. Beautiful, charming, and a successful interior decorator, to boot. So why did Eric leave her at the altar for her best friend? And why is Sayuri sleeping with Eric's sexy older brother Vincent? The story of a woman scorned...

Jiri starts as if I’d just electrocuted him, and then rolled onto his back. Somehow, I manage not to fall off of him during this process. We end up in a rather compromising position:Jiri sprawled on his back,on my bed,and me sitting right over his... lap.

Sorry everyone but there'll be no updates anytime soon. I'm considering leaving it & waiting for inspiration, scrapping ToB and writing a new one for Elizabeth or just keeping the Blood Series as a trilogy. Crappy decisions all around so I am sorry. :

Shy Charlotte has always been content living in her sister Madeleine's shadow; but with the onset of war with France, an unlikely friendship with the brother of a tyrant, and an arranged marriage to a man infatuated with Mattie, that's about to change.

Laird Rourke MacCallum takes what he wants and kidnaps a lass on a raid. She turns out to be trouble not to mention ENGLISH and won't be the subserviant little wife. Ch.24 up!