sirius: the brightest star in the sky.Olivia Coleman has her dream job - teaching pre-K. The only problem? She's doing it in Los Angeles, at a fancy preschool for spoiled celebrity children, when her heart lingers on the underprivileged kids in her home city of Clearlake, CA.Then a big-time rockstar, an aspiring actress, and their withdrawn daughter enter Livvy's life. Can she help them, or will a series of crises in her hometown make it hard for her to help even herself?…
Addie is not one for cards. Or finishing school. Or the pianoforte.She enjoys sitting on her rooftop during dusk, and reading, and being alone. She enjoys lessons in politics with her tutor Mr Williams. She enjoys being in the background - comfortable and undisturbed.But what happens when her life takes a series of extraordinary turns, throwing her into unfamiliar territory time and time again? Will she lose everything, or learn to play the game?…
Alexander smiled at her. "You are quite likeable, Emmeline, and I think we might one day be dear friends, but I doubt I shall ever wish to marry you."Emmeline laughed. "I doubt I shall ever wish to marry you, either."---Lady Emmeline Lockhart - daughter of a duke and sister of an earl, but twenty and three and very much unmarried. She finally finds a suitor in a dashing naval officer, but what will transpire when she finds herself forced into a union with the country's brash king-to-be?---TOP RANK: #172 IN HISTORICAL FICTION, 11 OCT 2016#157 IN HISTORICAL FICTION, 13 FEBRUARY 2017#144 IN HISTORICAL FICTION, 5 DECEMBER 2017#120 IN HISTORICAL FICTION, 6 DECEMBER 2017#73 IN HISTORICAL FICTION, 1 JANUARY 2018not quite a love story, but a story about love || historical *fiction* with no particular time period || UPDATES EVERY FRIDAY, WITH AS MUCH CONSTANCY AS IS HUMANLY POSSIBLE.…
WITH EVERY SUNSETCOMES A NEW SUNRISE.[sequel to Artemis]Lord Emmett Portsmouth ruined the lives of the two people he cared most for, and who cared most for him. He did not believe in marriage before; now he does not believe that he deserves to be married to a woman he loves. After all, his sister will spend her life trapped in a loveless marriage with the kingdom's crown prince - and he blames no one but himself for it.Can one doe-eyed manifestation of everything he detests change everything for him?---TOP RANK: #384 IN HISTORICAL FICTION, 13 FEBRUARY 2017#339 IN HISTORICAL FICTION, 15 MAY 2017#177 IN HISTORICAL FICTION, 22 MAY 2017#152 IN HISTORICAL FICTION, 25 MAY 2017a love story, and a story about love || historical *fiction* with no particular time period || updates every Friday, with as much constancy as is humanly possible.…
DISCONTINUED. SORRY.[contest submission] [part of the Lockhart series]Lady Anne Rutherford is not in love with Earl William Portsmouth of the Lockhart Clan, but she thinks she can be.Earl William Portsmouth is not in love with Lady Anne Rutherford, and he knows he will never be.He's rude and mean and generally unlikeable, and on second thought, maybe Anne can't love him either.After all, all of this - whatever it may be - is only a matter of strategy. Not a matter of the heart; for when is it ever?Young Lady Anne's Yuletide with Will is bound to be a disaster.…
« paper faces on parade, masquerade »Marie is on the run. She has been for a while now, wearing a mask not for her face's sake but for her heart's.Can one dance change it all?[ WEEKLY PROMPT SUBMISSION ][ tori & will spin-off ]#853 in Chicklit, 29 July 2018…
a collection of poems about a boy.…
Victoria is only twenty-three when her Uncle Henry suddenly passes away. With no wife and no children, he chooses to leave his most valuable asset to her.The question is, can she handle it?Her other uncles don't think so, her stepfather John definitely doesn't believe it, and perhaps neither does her mother. But she finds a mentor - and a friend - along the way, and she might just be all right.~~~a contemporary romance novel loosely based on the relationship between Queen Victoria and her first Prime Minister Lord Melbourne // my own little indulgence // updates every Monday, just to help with those bluesFIRST PUBLISHED: 15 January 2018ACCOMPLISHMENTS:- #549 in Chicklit, 29/1/18- #421 in Chicklit, 3/8/18- #291 in Chicklit, 6/10/18…
If you haven't done so yet, please don't read this book! There's going to be a new edition coming up and you'd enjoy that more if you don't read this first.•••Dorothea Carter is a regular girl who loses her grandfather at age seventeen. Then strange things start happening, beginning with the appearance of a strange man at her doorstep to deliver her a letter, and she realises that there might be a lot she doesn't know about her grandfather's life, and about her own.•••Updates every Friday, to the very best of my ability. Votes and comments are extremely welcome, especially constructive feedback. :)FIRST UPLOADED: 27 October 2017COMPLETED:TOP RANKINGS:…