Ask Amy ✔
BLACK MIRROR meets PRETTY LITTLE LIARS in this multimedia thriller where an anonymous advice website gets hacked and the dark origins of the site start to come to light.(shortlisted for the 2017 wattys, #1 in mystery/thriller)…
TahliePurvis
Fractured (#2)
SEQUEL TO BULLETPROOF.can be read as a standalone if you want.…
Bulletproof (#1) ✔
When Franny learns why former popular boy Tyler fell from grace, she gets thrown head-first into his dangerous world but also closer to his timid heart. *****Eighteen-year-old Tyler Madden used to have everything. He was captain of the football team, popular, high achiever, and was set to have a successful career. But when a secret too hard to handle comes to light, he turns to underground fighting to deal with the pain. Now, he's in too deep. And when Francesca Howard befriends him at school in the hopes of figuring out what went wrong, she unknowingly gets pulled into the criminal world he's now stuck in. As the two find comfort in each other, they find themselves faced with their impending future and trying to get Tyler out alive.Content/Trigger Warning: this story contains scenes pertaining to drug use, substance abuse, and violence.[#1 in teen fiction, romance and action]…
The Girl He Left Behind ✔
Stacey Williams had always loved Axel Teller. But he had paid her no mind. She wanted more than the meaningless flings they had. She wanted her love to be returned. She wanted to be loved back. She did everything to get his attention. She had one-night stands with countless boys - throwing away her innocence - and tearing apart her reputation. All for him. But Axel didn't notice Stacey as anything more than a girl to have a fling with on the side. And Stacey watched as the boy she loved fell for another girl, and they were happy and complete. And Stacey was alone and hated. Tarnished and scarred. She was the girl he left behind.[The first book won the 2015 Wattys for the Cover-to-Cover award and 2016 Fiction Awards. Book two won the 2018 Fiction Awards. #1 in Teen Fiction and Short Story.]…
Whipped ✔
When Sheriff's daughter, Maisie, is about to lose her grandmother's bakery, she enlists the help of four delinquents who are seconds away from prison.…
Wednesdays at Wesley's (temporarily on hold)
When Chakrika's internet gets shut off with a paper due the next morning, she spends the night at Wesley's, the only 24hr coffee shop with wifi. Her only problem is the frat boy working the night shift.***Chakrika "Chika" Chokshi's second year at the University of Southern Ontario is going way better than her first. She isn't spending every weekend curing a hangover in the food hall. Her GPA is no longer hitting below average, and she's in the running for the chance to have her undergraduate work published in a chapter of her professor's new book.It's all going so well, until continuous mess ups lead her to the only 24hr wifi spot in the area at midnight to finish a paper due the next morning.Enter Amandi Eze. Campus hot-shot. Third year science major. And currently the only person working the Wednesday night shift at Wesley's. He also happens to be Alpha Chi's favourite member and a thorn in Chakrika's side.When a series of events has them spending every Wednesday night at Wesley's for a study session, Amandi starts to get more and more under her skin. And with her career on the line, Chakrika has vowed to dedicate no time to distractions; no matter how attractive they're starting to appear.But when feelings start to emerge, Chakrika has to decide whether she can still refuse to back down from the promise she made years ago.Never date a frat brother.…
Two Truths (Viral, #2) ✔
SQUID GAME meets NERVE in this multimedia thriller where a gaming app with dark motives begins to show up on select people's phones, and the only way out is to complete tasks with even darker intentions.…
Winona ✔
[SPONSORED BY TELUS] For Winona Prescott, senior year was supposed to be simple; get good grades, graduate and have a bit of fun on the side. But when a video of her kissing another girl goes viral throughout the entire school overnight, everything takes a turn for the worse. Friends she once trusted turn on her, peers shut her out and her only comfort is from a friendship she once thought was lost. Winona just wants everyone to forget the video ever existed. But then the messages start to appear. Repeatedly, Winona's phone is filled with hate messages from an unknown account. She tries to delete them, they come back. She tries to ignore them, the paranoia sets in. Soon there are groups and pages, all spewing hate directed right at her and Winona is crumbling under the pressure. From the relationship with her dad, to the cold shoulder from everyone at school and the faceless person targeting her, Winona doesn't know what to do. Because the scariest opponent is the one you can't see.…
The Bystander ✔
[SPONSORED BY TELUS]Eva Shaw's junior year falls apart when she sees a website dedicated to making fun of Cathy, a reclusive student, and does nothing about it. Eva watches the posts pop up every night and doesn't speak a word. But when she accidentally gets closer to Cathy, it slowly gets tougher to keep quiet about the bullying she witnesses each day. Cathy seems to be pulling further away from everyone and has no desire to bring a teacher into her mess and make things complicated. But Eva is finding it harder to keep quiet with all the guilt building up around her and when she finds out the creator of the website is much closer to her than she thought, doing the right thing seems almost impossible. With her 'friends' telling her to keep quiet, Cathy falling away and her own guilt pulling at her, Eva has to decide if speaking out is really worth it or if she should just listen to everyone and stay a simple bystander.…
The Day Before ✔
What if you could do a moment in your life over again?My sample submission for the #13ReasonsWhyContest…
They Call It Pain ✔
"the feeling comes back,they call it pain,I call it reality."[Commissioned by TELUS for their #EndBullying comment contest]…
Denim Days ✔
What if negative thoughts controlled your entire life?A sample entry for To The Bone's 'Mind Over Matter' contest.…
His Achilles' Heel ✔
High school is a hard place for anyone - especially if wherever you go, you're misjudged.A sample entry for the #wonderthemovie contest.…
Shine (CF Brighter Contest) ✔
When you were young did you believe that anything was possible?…
Entangle ✔
When I was younger I wanted to be bald.Written for the #AussomeHair contest!…