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Rural Kentucky can be a harsh place to live, and Haley Carter determined at a young age that all she wanted to do was get out. She's close to achieving her dream with a scholarship to NYU in Manhattan, and life there is everything she dreamed it would be.She meets music superstar Luciano deLaurentis while working at a party, and her life is turned upside down. As she accompanies him to Italy for the European leg of his tour, she begins to question her values, the things she was brought up with.She has ulterior motives for this move, as does he for inviting her.Can they be together? Can they even be friends?…

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The Jacks were one of the most popular boybands ever, formed in the model of UK Crush by a management company hoping to capture lightning in a bottle twice. They succeeded, and each boy went on to individual success after the band went on hiatus.John Darling-Ezekwesili (Johnny Darling when he was in the band) is now making a movie with Hyacinth O'Dell, and is poised to take Hollywood by storm. Always having balked at management's attempt to box him into a mold, he's now using his full name and trying to branch out and embrace all facets of his life. He's very taken with the beautiful and glamorous Hyacinth, and knows she's into him as well. But then he meets her sister, Clementine, and all bets are off. Clem's quiet and creative, a student with no aspirations to the Hollywood life.But what's he supposed to do? The whole world expects him to date Hyacinth, including both Hy and her sister Clem. Should he hide his growing feelings for Clem? Should he put his feelings aside and just date Hy, pretending to the world that they're a couple?And poor Clem, who's been in love with John since she was in junior high, never believed she'd have a chance with him, her teenaged crush of The Jacks fame. She also doesn't want to hurt Hy, who's never been anything but a wonderful sister to her.What's going to happen?…

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Cressida has just moved into her own place to begin her senior year of college. It's tiny, but it's all hers. Her downstairs neighbor turns out to be a rude, brooding man of few words, and Cress is surprised when she finds out he's a pianist preparing for a very important audition. He just doesn't seem like the piano playing type, you know? Not that it matters, for they're certainly destined to be enemies, or at the very least, strangers.But that's not how things end up in my stories, you all know that by now, right 😉🔥??…

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Sometimes everyone needs to get away, right? Just become someone else for a while? Reed Halliwell washes up on the shores of Los Angeles, trying to escape her life, which feels like it's closing in on her. She meets Duncan Browne, world famous rock star, in the most violent and incredible of ways, and this chance encounter leads to an unlikely love story between a woman who never thought much of herself and a man who maybe thought a little too much. But can they ever be happy?…

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Goldie Sorenson is going to work as a nanny for Jeffrey Ormonde, a world famous singer who's been left widowed with more than he can handle in the baby department. But Jeff doesn't know that Goldie has an ulterior motive for being there, and that nannying isn't it. As their feelings for each other grow, the secrets that are flying around them also grow bigger and bigger, until they threaten to destroy the love and family they are trying to build.…

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Just when things were beginning to happen for them, the lead singer of their band, Marshall McLoskey, leaves the boys of Peppermint Silk high and dry. They're left scrambling for a singer with a big gig coming up, and no one at the mic. They decide to hold open auditions and find someone to fill Marshall's spot, but of course no one quite works, and Jude, Dane, Tommy, and Sullivan debate whether to even go on with the band at all. Then, Momoko walks in off the street to audition and changes everything.She's a petite firecracker who shocks the pants off the boys when she shows how she can sing, and they move forward with Momoko at the mic. But the dynamics of the band begin to shift almost immediately when all of the boys, who are as close as brothers, begin to have feelings for Momoko. As the date of the Greenwich Village Battle of the Bands rolls closer, even their music begins to morph as all of them express their romantic feelings for her, and, as it turns out, she returns the feelings she has for them. Whom will she choose? But does she even have to?…

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Francie Santangelo has always been a happy go lucky girl; and why shouldn't she be? Born to the perfect parents, Pete and Daisy Santangelo, with wonderful sisters and an adorable little brother, Francie has been beautiful and cherished her whole life. When romance finds her, of course it's perfect and larger than life, also, in form of Antonio Ribeiro, exchange student swimming god from Brazil, dark curls, chiseled face and body to match. Life in New York City has never been so amazing. Francesca Dahlia Santangelo is a lucky girl, indeed. But as winter progresses into spring, Francie notices she's more and more interested in her nerdy, goofy bespectacled friend, Chester, the statistician for the swim team. A childhood bout with polio has left him on crutches, and no one, not even Chester himself, thinks he stands a chance with the lovely, vivacious Francie. But she can't stop thinking about him, and things come to a head when she asks him to the Sadie Hawkins dance instead of the dashing Antonio, much to everyone's surprise.Chester? Really?Come along for this latest installment of the adventures of the Santangelo family, and see how Pete deals with the second oldest "flower of his heart" growing up and falling in love!…

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Tink is in love and in New York for her big audition. She's already overcome so much just to get here, and she now has Geth, Ronan, Matty, and of course Teddy by her side for moral support; what more could she want. Come along as they explore wintertime Manhattan to see what awaits our intrepid quintet in the magical city of Tink's childhood dreams.…

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Robin thought she wanted to be a veterinarian and get married more than anything. She's graduated from college while working in a local pet store, living at home and saving every penny, and she's so ready to go back east, where she's already accepted to a prestigious veterinary program. But the guy she was dating, Miles Miller, broke up with her after three years of a really good thing, and left her broken-hearted. He's the grandson of the owners of PetWorld, where they both work, and he was supposed to wait for her while she was off becoming a vet, and they were going to get married when she came back to set up a little veterinary practice in Warren. Her best friend, Peridot, who also works at the pet store, was supposed to be her maid of honor and everything.That was the plan, anyway.But now he's dating Tina, a cute little summer hire at PetWorld, and Robin has to see them together every day. She doesn't want to go to work, she doesn't want to go to vet school, she doesn't even want to get out of bed. And now she has to spend her days with Remi, another summer hire who seems to enjoy spending his time annoying her for no good reason.What happened to her last, farewell summer of fun? And what's her future going to be now?…

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Sumire Kotani (pronounced "soo-me-reh") is very serious, a serious girl, a serious teacher. She wears her straight brown hair in a serious bun, along with serious glasses, to show the world how serious she is. She's half-Japanese, a linguistics student at UCLA with a chronic case of the financial shorts, who gets a lucrative job as a language tutor for an actor who has to learn to sound like a native speaker of Japanese in six short months.Nick Pensieri is anything but serious. He's a model turned actor who's trying to have as much fun as possible while having a real career and earn some real money. Taking this role in a big budget Japanese period epic was his manager's idea, one he's willing to try, but isn't exactly sure about, especially after he meets his tutor and finds out just how much work will be involved. Talk about uptight!💥💥💥💥"I'm Nick, and this is my girlfriend, Meredith," he said with an easy smile, squeezing the hip of the woman who was standing next to him.The young woman sitting across the table looked from him to the blonde who was standing next to him, leaning casually on his shoulder. Somehow, without changing expression, she managed to convey disapproval, from the severity of her hairdo to the very slight narrowing of her eyes behind her glasses. Her eyes were actually quite pretty, Nick could see, a very deep brown with thick, long lashes, though she wore no make-up at all, almost as if she were trying to deny their beauty."Hello," she finally said, her voice as expressionless as her face. "I'm Sumire.""Soo-mee-what?" Meredith interjected with a laugh. "Like 'sue me'?" She laughed again, shaking her head, ruffling Nick's abundant hair with her hand. "You'll never make it in Hollywood with a name like that, honey."Sumire looked up at Meredith again and blinked. "Yes, well, I guess it's lucky I have no plans in that direction, then, hm?" she said, without even a hint of a smile.Fuuuuck. This was not going to be fun.…

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Penelope Patrick is a talented stage actress with a masters degree from Yale drama. She wanted to be in films, but was told she didn't have the face or body for it. Now she's set to star in a new dramatic play starring opposite her boyfriend, acclaimed Tony winning actor Frederick Benson, who's reputation is even more acclaimed than hers. When she finds at the last minute that the role of the leading man has been offered instead to Cameron Aldobrandeschi, a playboy prince turned model with no acting experience, she's furious. She's a serious actress, and this was supposed to be a serious play, dammit. When they meet, she's even more put off by his lean, European good looks and dry humor, while he's offended by her obvious dismissiveness and supercilious superiority. The fact that Cameron comes with a gorgeous model girlfriend in the form of Claire Weatherfield doesn't do anything to endear him to the super serious Penelope.Just as Penny and Cam get to be friends and realize that their worlds could somehow merge and they could coexist and be more than happy, tragedy strikes, and everything is turned upside down. They have to grow up in a hurry and find out if they really believe what they thought they did, or if they can change and become different people, better people, in a better world.…

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Archie Spencer, brother of world famous musician Heath Spencer, has been living with Heath, his wife MJ, MJ's dad, and their twin daughters Kiki and Lulu in Los Angeles while attending UCLA, and having a pretty good time. After all, he's handsome, smart, rich, and living in the land of blondes and bikinis; could life get any better? Then Clio Santangelo wanders into his music theory class and he's smitten, badly. Clio is sort of famous herself, as she's the daughter of Pete Santangelo, one of the most sought after musicians in the world. She's winsome and willowy, dark and dreamy, a pixie with long dark hair and beautiful brown eyes, who plays the piano like an angel. She smiles at him and he's done for.When Clio moves back to New York, Archie follows her, throwing caution to the wind, not minding that she's only seventeen, four years than him, and that she comes with a lifelong admirer, one Zeke Steiner, who's been in love with her since kindergarten. But problems come up almost immediately. Zeke has an admirer of his own, named Joyce, who is envious of Clio, and waits for the day Zeke will notice her. And Archie, who enrolls at Columbia, soon has an admirer too, a beautiful girl named Willow, who can't believe Archie would want to be with a child like Clio. Willow is used to getting what she wants, and she wants Archie, badly.How can such a convoluted mess resolve itself?…

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Andrew Pennington is tired. He's been frontman for the very popular band Manderley Dreams for years, and the constant touring, the hotels, the planes, even the girls, have all started to look the same. He wants the ride to stop, just for a while, so he can relax, and maybe smell the flowers. So he buys a country estate, a place he can retreat to, for a little peace and quiet.Unfortunately, Langford, his "retreat," comes with a gardener, and a daughter, Chiara, who's opinionated, noisy, contrary, and always around, a thorn in his side girl who just rubs him the wrong way. She bugs him, you know?🌹🌹🌹🌹"Smoother? What the devil does that mean?" Drew could feel his hackles rising. People didn't treat him this way, especially not after they knew who he was."You know, in photographs you're usually clean-shaven, and your clothes are less--rumply," she said. "You're all stubbly, and your shirt and trousers look like they've been folded up in a cupboard for a long time, and your hair--""Right, right, hammered shit, I remember, you can stop," Drew interrupted, raising his hand. "Just let me use your phone to call someone, and you'll be well quit of me, yeah?"She handed over her phone wordlessly, and Drew looked at it, racking his brain for a phone number.Any number.Shit.He looked over at the girl and bit his lip. "I don't usually have to remember numbers, I just click on the name, you know?"She continued to stare at him, eyebrow raised.Drew stared at her. She was beginning to seriously annoy him.He finally looked up the number for his car service, and called them. They'd be there in two hours.Great.He looked at overalls girl, who'd gone back to her gardening. He tapped her on her shoulder and she turned around, with the flowered hat turning even wider on her head.He handed back her phone and turned to go wait in front of the house. At least his headache was abating. "You're welcome," she called, shaking her head.🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹Cover by @n…

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Ruth doesn't mind being the 15 year-old daughter of her small central California town of Warren's only openly gay couple. Her dads are great. Mostly. She doesn't even mind that they're both lawyers, and that they want her to be a lawyer. It's a noble profession. She also doesn't mind that they named her after the amazing and incredible Ruth Bader Ginsburg. After all, she was born on the day that unstoppable dynamo was named to the highest court in the land, and she has the same initials, because of her dads' last names. And again, they're cool people. And she's going to be a lawyer, just like that other RBG herself.She does kind of mind being dumped by her super hot boyfriend Brett right before the start of her junior year of high school, especially when it's because she won't go as far as he wants her to.And she really minds when her (former) best friend Amelia is waiting to snag him up, because apparently she's more than willing to go that far, and then some. It makes for a lonely first day of school, you know?Throw in the fact that Ruthie isn't super sure she wants to be a lawyer at all (shh, don't tell her dads), and yeah, well, you can see how things might be a little, well, up in the air. Ruthie likes to sing and dance and act and stuff. But her dads think that's frivolous. You'd think they'd be a bit more supportive, seeing as how...well, you know.Anyway, it doesn't help that on this totally horrible first day of junior year, there's a new kid, which never happens in her boring little home town. His name is Elliott Banks, and not only is he new, he's foreign. Sort of. He's from London. Yeah. And he likes living in Warren about as much as you'd expect someone from London to like it. He looks so angry, just surly and furious. And sad. And so, so...hot. It's unsettling, you know? How's a girl supposed to be on an even keel when her life's just careening all over the place like this? Isn't small town life supposed to be quiet? Boring?…

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These are my submissions to the Marriott Traveler solo travel contest, in which we were supposed to describe a trip, taken alone, that led to a kind of understanding, or perhaps a moment of epiphany. My first entry, about Italy, made the top ten. It is one of my favorites, though I'm quite fond of the one about Japan as well...If you read them as individual entries, no need to read again, as these are all the same--I just wanted to put them in one volume now the contest is over.…

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MJ has always been ashamed of how she looks. She's strong, sturdy, swarthy, all those adjectives that begin with S and are very large, you know? She's spent her life trying to hide in the background, scribbling in her journal and playing her guitar. She finished college and has gotten a job as a PA, or personal assistant, to Meredith Renner, a very beautiful and popular singer. Think Taylor Swift meets Ariana Grande and you'll be close. She's currently touring with Heath Spencer, an English pop singer who was part of a boy band who branched out as a solo act and has taken the world by storm. He's got a beautiful face, gorgeous voice, and an eye for the ladies. MJ has been in love with Heath for most of her life, long with most of the young girls in the whole world. And now she's on tour with him.But hold on. He seems to enjoy MJ's company an awful lot. And he doesn't even seem to mind that she's bigger than he is. How strange. And how nice. The only person not happy about this situation is the glamorous and beautiful Meredith Renner, who used to be involved with Heath, and maybe still has some feelings for him herself.Yikes, what a mess.Cover provided by the wonderful @jenyarrington ❣️…

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I have so many works here on Wattpad, with bonus chapters stuck here and there, some non-fiction, a memoir, some sequels, some published and some not--there's a lot of stuff! So, if you're a new reader, or you've stumbled on my page or whatever, you can read this first and you'll know more than you ever wanted to know about yours truly. I'll try to keep it up to date so you can look at this tome and know, up to the minute, what I have up on Wattpad, and all about it.Hope it helps!…

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These are all of my entries into the All The Boys I've Loved Before Contest. I've put them into one volume, as having them in eight different places made my profile kind of crowded. All but one of them has a crossover to one or more of my stories, which makes them kind of fun to read, I think.…

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He needs a place to live, she needs a baby daddy. Pietro Santangelo and Marguerite White are students at prestigious Columbia University in New York City. She is a fun-loving, free spirit who finds herself in a bit of a familial bind, he is an exchange student with a chronic case of poverty. They concoct a plan that they think will work, not realizing how much changes with two simple words... Pete merely looked at her and opened a box of books. He took some out and began placing them on the shelves, bending and stretching at his task. He had a nice back, broad shoulders and muscles that could be seen clearly under his light blue T-shirt. Daisy watched for a minute, fascinated. "Like what you see?" he asked without turning around. She jumped at the sound of his voice. "Well, you're the only thing in the room that's moving, you know?" she said by way of explanation. He turned around to look at her, books in either hand, a small grin on his face. "Of course, what was I thinking?" he asked rhetorically. "And look. We're both adults here, hm?" He looked carefully at her. "The couch we just brought up here cost fifty dollars at the second-hand store, and has to be at least thirty years old. I don't want to sleep on it, and I don't think you're going to want to sleep on it, either." She shook her head. "So the bed is nice and big," he continued. "I think we can manage, don't you? We can share the bed." He watched her for her reaction. "I give you my word this is not going to be a problem for me. At all. Is this going to be a problem for you?" She looked at him. "Really? At all?" She recovered from the unintentional meaning of his words quickly. "No, it won't be a problem for me, either," she said firmly. "We can share the bed."Content warning: This story contains mature sexual content, and themes of premarital sex and sexual assault.…