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Stephanie Hersh has always lived a sheltered life, but that is until she meets John Schmidt. The man who manages to make her actually feel free and loved. He is the man who brings her joy and laughter. The love of her life. Her one true love.Or so she thought...Who ever thought that your own soulmate could hurt you in ways that were unimaginable? Mentally, emotionally, and physically. Love hurts, but what hurts the most is trying to find a way to escape it...Completed 11/08/14…

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Eighteen year old Bunny McKay lives the perfect. She has two loving parents, an older brother who'd do anything for her, and two best friends who are always there when she needs them. She's one of the best cheer leaders on her team and makes good grades in school. She's obviously on the right path.But what happens when she somehow ends up on the wrong path after getting caught up in a robbery at the gas station? All she wanted was gas and beef jerky, but in the end all she got was a somewhat cocky flirt who has immediately taken interest in her. Jesse Deveraux, he was bad and he and everybody else knew that. Parents looked past the leather jacket and motorcycle and thought he was nothing but a gentleman. Bunny knew he was anything but. After seeing each other again after the robbery at a rave, Bunny is irritated and wants nothing from this criminal, but he on the other hand wants nothing more than her. Somehow he convinces her to ditch her friends and the rave to go out to eat with him, but the only condition was he was to never see her again. He agrees, but since he wants her he does the opposite and soon Bunny realizes she needs him like he needs her.As Bunny starts to spend more time with him and her feelings toward him start to change, secrets she wasn't meant to know start to unravel and light is shed on the lies. She knew Jesse Deveraux was bad, she knew that he was down for anything; she also knew their bike rides in random parking lots were real. But what she didn't know was that Jesse Deveraux hid a secret that possibly put her life on the line. Even after all the good times they shared, maybe Bunny should just let this mysterious, flirtatiously hot boy go. He was too bad for her.A dangerous kind of bad. {Cover by Call-Me-Bell}…

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'Zayn Malik was her beautiful, but mysterious, magnificent boy; her everything. Phoebe Whitman, with the average life, was his striking girl, quite literally actually.'They were the glue that held each other together. No matter how many mood changes he had, or how many times he got that crazed, angered look in his eyes.Or maybe, Zayn was the one pulling both her sanity and her life apart...…

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People may think that seventeen year old Cameron Schmidt is living the good life because of the big house and all the money he's surrounded by every day. They may think he lives the good life because he attends White Ridge Academy, has two amazing best friends who know him better than everybody, and has the attention of one of the wealthiest girls at White Ridge. They may think he lives the good life because he has a trophy wife as his stepmother and a picture perfect father who runs his own company in New York City.But that's just what they think, it wasn't reality...Seventeen year old Cameron Schmidt, does have two great best friends, but just because they know him better than anybody else doesn't mean they know everything about him. He lives with his stepmother and father, but nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors. Nobody knows that he's just a boy silently crying out for somebody to come save him...But what happens when a new girl named Emmeline catches his attention? He didn't know what it was that drew him to her, but maybe it was her long light brown hair that he wanted to oh-so touch? Maybe it was her looks that drew him to her. The fact that she looked and acted like none of the girls who attended White Ridge was something that he liked most about her. But the number one thing that drew him to her was her eyes, her blue misty-like eyes, and the cane she carried around every day. She was blind, trapped in a dark world just like him...But maybe they could be each other's light...…

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Declan Becker, an egotistical business man who doesn't have to worry about making ends meets, lives in his own world filled with work, silence, and nobody but himself. Anybody in the city of Chicago could see that he'd much rather be buried in a farcical amount of paperwork than helping out at homeless shelters or donating money to find cures for diseases. He was looking to find ways to expand his business, not some charity case.But that is until one quite literally runs into him.A woman with long, black hair, pale skin, and ratty clothes is what he got as his charity case, his charity case that has peaked his interest. Cara, no one but a girl from the streets, so why the sudden change in heart when he decides to take her in? Why was he so curious as to where she came from? Why can't he seem to decipher the truth from the lies in which she tells him? But the real question is why is he all of a sudden feeling something so foreign to him? He tells himself it isn't love, or interest, not even a sexual attraction.But he too knows that he's lying to himself and that there is some truth in these lies he's told. . .…