Stories That Stay

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Jen’s teenage life of rebelling and sneaking out is growing stale. In an effort to combat her boredom, Jen makes a bet to turn Trevor, a nice geek, into a “bad boy.” Unexpectedly, she is pulled into Trevor’s world of sci-fi movies, charity work, and even–ugh!–bowling. Jen discovers that hanging out with Trevor isn’t so bad after all.


But when Trevor finds out about the wager, all bets are off.

Benjamin Nefer has it all: great looks, incredible football skills, and smooth moves that have won―and broken―the hearts of countless girls. But his hellish home life has left him feeling empty inside, unable to experience real feelings.

Charlotte “Charlie” Austin has already been warned about Benjamin’s reputation, so it’s easy for her to shoot down his advances.

A tentative friendship between them grows, Benjamin wonders if he’s capable of love after all. Or is this so-called romance just another game?

Enchanted Fairytales is a series of short stories based on beloved fairytales. The stories are written as if the fairytales never existed. are contemporary, some are paranormal, some have elements of fantasy or magic.

Stories: Beautiful Beast, Red and the Wolf, Snow White, Midnight Masquerade, and The White Swan

17-year-old Kate has lived her whole life in abject poverty, with an alcoholic father and drug-addicted mother, who severely abuses Kate.

Henry Jamison moved away six years earlier. He returns to find the bright, funny, outgoing girl he had known hiding in corners.

Just when it seems Henry might be genuine in his friendship, tragedy strikes, threatening everything Kate has worked so hard to gain.

Niahm Parker is thoroughly content with her life in the small town of Goshen. When Shane Coleman and his nephew Sam move into town, it’s the biggest event to happen in as long as anyone can remember.

Sam didn’t plan on falling for Niahm. For Immortals, love is not only forbidden, but dangerous. He finds himself in a fight for Niahm’s heart, and to protect her from being harmed by those who seek to destroy Sam and those like him.

Told that she must stay in her tower at all times to protect her life, Rapunzel feels trapped in the huge mansion where she lives. When school demands her to be allowed access to the Internet, she discovers social media and becomes friends with Fane, a local teenager who changes her whole world.

Time is running out for the Collaborative’s oppressive rule of the remote world Senca One. When their parents are taken, triplets Juliet, Cilla, and Emiah Tripp set out to locate them. Along the way, they discover they’re morphs. Struggling to adapt to their strange new abilities, they question what they really are, and why. Did their scientist parents have anything to do with it? While searching for information about their parents, they unwittingly spark a revolution they want no part of and discover something more dangerous than they suspected.

Banished from the South Pole, Kara tries to carve out a new life among the elves of the North, where she’s assigned to work with the gorgeous, ornery elf Seb on a special project. It’s not easy with a secret to protect—a secret she’s cursed with by the unusual circumstances of her heritage: half-elf, half-fairy.

When sixteen year old Olivia Adams wakes from a horrible car accident something is different. Olivia died, and the soul inhabiting her body needs to find out who, and what, she is.

Jacobi McKenzie has been waiting, but for what he isn’t sure. Jacobi recognizes Olivia for what she is. She threatens to expose his true identity—a thing he’s worked hard to conceal. They come together in an explosion of emotion that neither of them is supposed to feel.

Together they unravel the mystery surrounding the destruction of their race.