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High school is hard. It's even worse when you have to balance a job at the same time - let alone help run your family's business between classes and homework. Diana works at her family's pickle company (What's the Dill?) every day after school and on the weekends, so there's no time for her to go to parties or football games. She's stuck juggling English essays and preserving jars of cucumbers, with only a little bit of sleep in between.And when you throw a boy into the mix, forget it. The last thing Diana has time for is to date her high school's lacrosse captain, but Alex has a different plan. He's determined to get Diana to live a little and experience life outside of the jar she's stuck in. Life's not all about work, but some of us need more convincing than others.…

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Ella Jane's annoyingly average life is upended when she catches her classmate, Ryan Hunter, breaking into her house. Ryan owes a mysterious group of men a lot of money - $5,000, to be exact. He has two months to gather the money on his own, or he's a dead man.Instead of turning Ryan over to the cops, Ella offers to help him get the money.When robberies, money, guns and love are involved, nothing is black and white. For Ella and Ryan, there is only gray.(extended description inside)…

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"How can you fix a mind that's convinced it's broken?" [ book three of The Past Tetralogy ]…

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"The only thing I'm good for is sex." [ book two of The Past Tetralogy ]…

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meraki [may-rah-kee] (noun): when something is done with soul, creativity, or love; when you leave a piece of yourself in your work.No matter what I write, a part of me ends up among the words. A collection of poems.…

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A wolf doesn't always appear with pointed ears, ragged fur, or snarling fangs. Sometimes the wolf appears as a teenage boy. That's how it was for my wolf; a boy with dark, glinting eyes and a thirst for excitement. And I was the little girl in red, clueless and hopelessly in love with the wolf, until I realized - too late - that his sharp-toothed danger could swallow me whole.[This is my entry for @target's contest #OnceUponNow. It is based upon the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood. If you wish to support this story, please remember to vote on the first chapter (prologue) during the contest's voting phase - which begins June 14, 2016 and ends June 21, 2016.]…

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"I killed my best friend when I was drunk driving. It's been two years, and I'll never, ever, forgive myself." [ book one of The Past Tetralogy ]…

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"It's much harder to stay hidden from the Dark Lord when you're in love with a Death Eater."Evelyn Hawkings' parents were well-known Death Eaters, but they died when the Dark Lord fell and Eve was only an infant. Now fifteen years have passed and Voldemort is back, and Eve has changed her last name to stay hidden from him. She lives a quiet life, staying out of trouble and avoiding the life of a Death Eater...but everything changes when she meets Draco Malfoy.He's the bad boy, the guy everyone avoids if they know what's good for them. But what happens when the bad boy meets someone completely different? What happens when Draco Malfoy, against all odds, falls head over heels for one girl? Which will come first, the girl he loves...or his reputation as a Death Eater?What will he do when he finds the bird that can finally set him free?A Draco Malfoy love story.…

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Cassie Jackson is in her sixth year of Hogwarts, and is proud to be a Ravenclaw. Plus, she's in the same year as the famous Harry Potter. But a Slytherin by the name of Draco Malfoy keeps crossing paths with her, whether it be by fate or accident. At first, two people could never hate each other more. But with the threat of Lord Voldemort looming over their heads, unlikely students become closer than ever before.A Draco Malfoy love story. [highest rank: #127 in fanfiction]…