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Eighteen. It's that time in your life that's nothing if not subjunctive: the mood you use when something might or might not have happened. It's a time that's full of change. Leaving school. Going to University. Leaving home. Saying goodbye to past people. Welcoming new people. Everything becomes different all at once. Parts are hard. Parts are easy. All of it: unavoidable. *** Approaching the end of his final year of education, Andy Williams feels lost. Life feels directionless and he craves something that he's not sure even exists. Going through the motions of life with no passion left to give feels numbing until he meets a friend that shows him there's light at the end of the tunnel.

After A tragic end to their hard fought battle against A literal God of The universe, The heirs look to cope after that traumatic experience.... They start a new year when their school is rebuilt just in time for the new year to start and already the group faces challenges.... When four new students threatened their popularity in their own territory but why did they transfer to the Royal Heirs school in the first place? If that was bad enough they struggle with teenage drama, a dark force that was accidentally let out while they forced the "God of Darkness" into the Vortex is now coming out of hiding and killing everyone in sight it's up to them to protect themselves, everyone and their school but can they do it alone?

Question: How far are you willing to go to please a person you're sexually attracted to? Where would you draw the line? Cass is on the verge of becoming 18 when she decides she needs a change. Not going on dates, not having a boyfriend, missing out on ...well she can only imagine, is making her feel like she doesn't belong, the abnormal one, the outsider. She can't even remember, ever, being really attracted to someone. The lack of infatuation in her life - in both ways - is weighing heavy on her self-esteem and is bringing her down. In her pursuit to change her single status and start her own adventure, she gets caught up in more than she bargained for. And one, two...too many boys. BxGx(BxB) or ... it's complicated. Check out the character pictures on my Instagram https://www.instagram.com/billie__venice/

[LGBTQ+ SLICE OF LIFE/ROMANCE] At the ripe old age of twenty-three, Hugo Garland starts his first year of university. It's terrifying and only adds to the anxiety and depression that has suffocated him for the last five years. But he wants to get better, he needs to, he just doesn't know where to start. His journey to healthiness is jumpstarted when he meets Renee Newell, who introduces him back into the world he missed out on for so long. With her help, he meets a man that might just be perfect for him, if only he was confident enough to do something about it. This is a story about overcoming grief and serious depression, about making friends and rediscovering the life that had once been lost. This is a story about gaining confidence and finding love. This is a story about Hugo Garland and the not-so-wrong ways to live life. Trigger Warnings for Panic Attacks

Book Two of the Haunted Lover's Duo. "The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant. During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird." -Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War Two Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption. In the wake of Malcolm's death, Slate attempts a shot at normality. He tries to cope, and hopes staying close to Eden will aid him in retaining his sanity. However, there just doesn't seem to be anything going right, and the hole that Malcolm left in his chest just isn't helping. He's falling, and he knows soon he'll hit the ground. He'll crash. During a raging storm, Slate finds the one light that might actually keep him going. The one light to guide him through the darkness of his life, to bring him back from the brink, and maybe even to finally forge some beauty worth living for. A nymph, half-dead in the middle of the road, so close to the end himself but somehow able to shift Slate's entire world into another dimension. A clearer one. One that he may just survive in.

"We've been best friends for fourteen years. Did you really think I wouldn't notice? I can see it... in your eyes. Your smile never reaches your eyes." -- When Aspen Ace falls, he falls hard. It's a gradual descent that happens so naturally, Aspen doesn't even recognize anything's changed until he's already neck-deep in an unrequited love for his best friend, Rafe Alvarez. Nervous and insecure, Aspen brings this new revelation to the person he trusts most-his older brother, Alex. He doesn't expect to be met with unconditional acceptance, but the reaction he receives is nightmare fodder. Regret barely scratches the surface of Aspen's emotions when his brother decides to blackmail him, but with no other option, Aspen learns to survive. Aspen can deal with the abuse as long as Alex keeps his sexuality a secret. He'll just wait it out. Aspen will graduate high school with a baseball scholarship and get the hell out of his conservative hometown... if he can endure. But he can't, and Aspen's suddenly fighting not only his brother, but the all-consuming monster in his head.

Our parent's made life look easy. They made love look easy. What they didnt make look easy? Was High School. They didn't tell us High School could tear friends apart. Or that people would get treated like complete trash. Adults talk about how kids will face the real world after High School. Pft. Try facing the real world in High School. Where nothing makes sense. And when someone tells you, they love you. Feels like a lie. [BOOK TWO OF: Enter If You Dare.]

A royal bloodline gets divided by rebels' attempted regicide, casting Alvina from her throne and into hiding, as Quinn, the bastard brother, is forced to take her place. *** Alvina was supposed to be queen, but when her coronation is abruptly stopped by an explosion, she has to flee the country she called home. Missing an arm, a throne and half her sanity, Alvina has to find a way to get back to Andaheim, before the rebels drive her brother to an early grave. Quinn was just a bastard. But now with his sister Alvina's supposed passing, he has to be the king he never wanted to be. Struggling with catching up on politics, wanting to be a good king and not losing himself in the process, he has to figure out what's more important: his own integrity or his country. A North Atlantic 1920s Jazz era Fantasy.

Lyric has fought most of his life to keep his "special" family's image in the eyes of the church. Between hiding his family's secrets, and ignoring his past he has managed to maintain the appearance of being the perfect Preacher's Kid. However, after years of fighting for the image of being the perfect church boy, Lyric finally faces an enemy that he may not be able to defeat so easily... "Himself". Join Lyric on his journey through self exploration, sex, identity crisis, scandal, therapy and more.

"I was lost in a world of sex and drugs and boys, until he came along. It kind of hit me by surprise, how easily I fell in love with him. To everyone but him, I was just a heartless bastard. Maybe they were right about me. Maybe I couldn't be saved. People have died trying, after all, and their blood was on my hands. But maybe, just maybe... I could still be saved. (3rd book in the FM Trilogy)