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Distant Shadows

Distant Shadows

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Drew Stafford looks like any traditional 24 year old. He lives with three flatmates in a standard New York apartment and works what sounds like a boring tech job. Except everything isn't so simple. His job is just a cover for what he really does.He works with his boss to work the cases that Police forget about or don't have the time to work on. It means getting into a lot of fights and making a lot of enemies. But of course, that the easiest part of Drew's life as he is running from something bigger.…

The Long Way Around

The Long Way Around

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With six older siblings Taylor is used to be slightly ignored. Coming from a big family there is always someone with a larger problems that Taylor since he manages to keep everything together balancing schoolwork and football.Moving to a new city, starting at a new high school and playing for a new team makes life more complicated. As he bonds with his new teammates he begins to learn more about himself and learn that there is more to life than he already knows.…

Chasing Stars

Chasing Stars

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Everyone knows that the world of competitive dance is tough. Hailee Dermott learnt this from a young age from dancers and parents who she danced with and against. She managed to push it all to the side to get a spot in the American Ballet Theatre Company. At age 19 she was one of the youngest one in the company so she felt like she had to prove herself. The company is tight knit but it is still tough because everyone is still competing for the main roles in the ballet. Especially when the upcoming ballet is Swan Lake.Hailee knows that she is a good dancer but working with dancers years older with years more of training with her makes her doubt herself. She feels a need to push herself even harder and work even harder.…

Capture

Capture

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The only reason that Sabine Chapman was at college was because of gymnastics but an injury forces her off the team for good. Now she is unsure what to do and doesn't know what to do with her life. The only reason that she was at college is now gone.Carey Watson prefers silence to conversation with others and enjoys the way that art speaks without him having to say anything. For him any piece of art is easier than talking to anyone and that includes Sabine who seems to make it her mission to talk to him.Carey and Sabine appear so different but maybe they can connect over the things that make them the same?…

Bounce Back

Bounce Back

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Ryan Moore is a numbers geek. He does basketball stats for his high school team because he wants to. He also tutors one the basketball players, Tyler Matthews, in maths. Tyler doesn't mind maths but he doesn't get it and would rather be playing basketball.Tyler is slightly surprised to learn that Ryan knows a lot more about basketball that he would let on. The two of them help each other a lot more than they realised until tough decisions have to be made.Can Tyler and Ryan bouncing back?…

Frozen in Ice

Frozen in Ice

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Luke Crosby love hockey. He doesn't love the fact that everyone thinks that because his last name is Crosby that he must be related to Sidney Crosby, which he isn't. He also doesn't love the fact that he is now his seventh school in three years because of his Mom's job. Brynn Washington might not know Luke before he joins the school but she knows his type. The hockey player who doesn't care who he hurts and worries only about himself. She isn't nice to him because she doesn't think that he deserves it.There is more to Luke than Brynn gives him credit for but he is just trying to fit in with his new hockey teammates, especially with a captain that feels threaten by him and a Coach that doesn't really like him but he still finds time to try and prove her wrong.Can Luke convince her that he is different or will she think she isn't worth it?…

Paint the Pictures

Paint the Pictures

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If Colby Wood was quiet then Rhys Wood is almost mute. While all this siblings play a sport or dance Rhys prefers to paint. He spends most of his time in the art room and he doesn't have any friends but he doesn't really mind that much.Sydney Barrett finds comfort in talking to Rhys because he is different to most boys their age. He doesn't flirt with her and they work together for art projects and they get to know each other better but they are both still guarded because of what they have gone through.Can they Paint better Picture for themselves?Sequel to Out on the Field. You don't have to have read it before you read this but there might be spoilers…

Stuck on the Stage

Stuck on the Stage

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Julian 'Jules' Norman is considered the least talented in his family. His older sister is a professional dancer and older brother is a singer/ actor. He ends up with a role in a new TV show after tagging along to his brother's audition. Stella Raymond has been acting and dancing since she was five and started as a child star. She takes Julian under her wings due the fact this is his first job. She quickly develops feelings for him but there is more to Julian than she guessed.Are Julian and Stella destined to be together or will there be something that stops them?…

Out on the Field

Out on the Field

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Colby and Adam Wood are brothers and they have never got along. Colby loved to tease his older brother by calling Mr Perfect. Adam has the perfect grades, perfect attitude and quarterback of the football team. Colby is ten months younger but is also a senior. He doesn't have the attitude that his brother has. He has a temper and he is a cornerback on the football team.Clara Preston is the boys' new football coach's daughter and she is new to the school and gets to experience Colby's bitter attitude first hand. She is the first person to want to see what is underneath and Colby doesn't appreciate this attention. Will Clara figure Colby out or will still be out on the field doing the one thing that he feels that he is good at?…

New Brighton Boarding School

New Brighton Boarding School

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Amanda Prescott is in her third year at New Brighton Boarding School. She is the troublemaker of the school and is on her 22nd roommate in that time because no one knows how to deal with her except her best friend Alex Prince and this roommate is no exception. Cassie Young is a bitch and Amanda is quickly annoyed and turns to what she does to let go of her anger, Tennis.Amanda quickly learns that she can't use tennis as therapy to solve all her problems especially with them amounting. She has pressure from her school, friends and family and it seems like everyone expects her to be something that she isn't and tennis becomes something that isn't helping anymore.New Brighton Boarding School is a private school where everyone seems to be hiding something and it isn't smooth sailing for anyone especially Amanda.…

The World's Longest Road Trip

The World's Longest Road Trip

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Skylar Turner comes from a rich family and has been married to billionaire Ron Austin. Sounds amazing doesn't it? Not when it is an arranged marriage and Skylar doesn't even like Ron.Shawn Everts runs into Skylar and by chance he is traveling to LA from her hometown New York and offers her a lift and a lifeline. According to Google Maps it takes about 40 hours to get to LA but Shawn and Skylar don't take the fast way. Instead it turns into the World's Longest Road Trip…

Death Knows Everyone

Death Knows Everyone

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Everyone in the small town of Winchester knows that Addison Mathews watched her parents get murdered when she was 9 and everyone knows that the person or people that did it never got caught. Everyone thinks that she got over and has a perfectly happy life but not everyone knows that Addy spends her time researching, trying to find her parents' killer or killersMax Whitelock is in the same place as Addy. Not everyone in the small town knows that he watched his Mother die. They think she died in her sleep but Max and the Police know better. Addy knows the sadness that comes with death and picks Max out from a crowd at school.He doesn't want to talk to her about it but he keeps talking to her. Addy starts to look for seriously into the deaths in the area and she gets in too deep. Max says that he doesn't care, but does he really? Addy and Max bond because of death but does Death know Everyone?…

Reaching the Bar

Reaching the Bar

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Four years is a long time for anyone, especially an athlete dreaming of the Olympics. For Jennifer Young her Olympic dream shattered when she fell off the uneven bars and lost the team gold. Three and a half years later Jen is still dreaming of redemption. She has had four years of training and she won't let that go to waste again. This time Jen swears that it will be different. She will reach the bar this time, not slip short.…

Picture Perfect

Picture Perfect

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Mackenzie Elliot has been dancing since she was 2. So when she started at a new studio she thought that she would be able to fit in. Instead she found five new dancers that she doesn't get along with. Chloe Duncan, who thinks she rules the world, especially dance studio, Hailey Abbott and Ellie Coleman, who don't know which way to go and two boys, Carson Reed and Skylar Dean, who are head over heels in love with the same girl.These are all things that Mackenzie that doesn't want to deal with. Then with a friend group that is splitting apart the school year is not going to easy.…

The Help Group

The Help Group

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Sienna Adams is in her Senior year when she gets offered a job to help at the therapy group for people her age that are dealing with depression and suicide. Aiden Stone is one of these people. He is also a senior and has been going to his group for 2 years. Sienna wants to help Aiden but he won't let her but he doesn't understand that Sienna needs her own Help Group.Note: This book talks about depression, suicide and anorexia.…

Jefferson Lake One-Shot

Jefferson Lake One-Shot

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One-shot for knightsrachel's Jefferson Lake story.…

The Life I Don't Want

The Life I Don't Want

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Ally Thurston is 23 and has already been part of the Music Industry for 5 years She hates it though, it is the life she doesn't want but her Mom is strict and controlling so she can't leave and do something that she actually wants.Cameron Miller knows a thing or two about controlling parents but his want him to take over their business. He just wants to learn to be a vet instead of traveling the world supposedly learning how to run this company.Parker Evans is cute and a major star in the music industry. He and Ally become close after singing together and then he starts to help her.Suddenly Cam and Ally are pushed together by their parents and they both understand the problems that the other haves. Suddenly the world doesn't seem so lonely but nothing is every perfect when you don't have control. And then there is Parker who doesn't know where he stands with either Cam or Ally.…

Dancing in the Rain

Dancing in the Rain

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Sophie Elliot was an inspiring dancer. She lived and breathed ballet almost every second of her life. She even got accepted for St James Ballet School. The most prestigious ballet school in the country but nothing is perfect forever is it. Her ex-best friend Theresa decides that Sophie doesn't deserve to get to dance so she injures her out of revenge.After being told that she will never dance again, Sophie takes up swimming in the hope that she will improve her injured knee but suddenly she meets Will.William Jacobs takes Sophie under his wing and teaches her. Everything seems perfect but nothing ever stays like that, does it? Suddenly Sophie is thrust into a world of hate and she doesn't know who to trust anymore. It seems like anyone that she used to trust doesn't care anymore.…

Rich and Alone

Rich and Alone

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Phoebe Evans has everything that any girl could even want. Her parents are rich and CEOs of some rich company. What most people don't know is that Phoebe hates it all. She hates not being able to drive to school, or cook and having to have people wait on her.Phoebe doesn't have any friends, everyone is scared of her. She is the person that you see alone in the back of the class but you are too scared to try and talk to. Her parents are never there and her older sister hates her. Once she is finished senior year she is planning on leaving to some place far away so she doesn't have to deal with the expectations of her family.Zoe Edwards is the first person that has ever tried to speak to Phoebe but she gets pushed away. This makes her curious about the person that is Phoebe Evans. Zoe also has her own secrets that she doesn't want known to anyone. Can she get Phoebe to trust her or will Phoebe's traumatic past catch up with her and send Phoebe spiralling back down again?…

Receiving

Receiving

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Riley Daniels isn't your normal girl but no one remember the normal girls that blend into the background. For starters her two best-friends are her twin brother Thomas and their friend Luke. The second thing about Riley is that she plays football and is a receiver. Also she doesn't have parents and lives with Thomas and Luke. When you are the first female footballer your school has since you don't have a lot of friends. For starters the Coach hates her and so does the cheerleaders but they have since she started school. Riley acts like a cheerful person but truthfully she is building up wall to push everyone way because she knows things that she hasn't ever told anyone else. What doesn't help is the fact that suddenly her world is threaten and everything and everyone that she once trusted isn't there anymore.…