|| a featured story || Aurora never planned on spending her final month alive falling in love. When she meets Gus, a curious boy who is all too eager to waste away the days with her, she finds herself trading in her month of solitude for a month with him instead. Under the summer sun, they promise each other a forever they don't have. All they have is August, and they try to make it enough. [Features a commissioned bonus chapter for the JCPenny #DreamPromposal contest] __________________________ Alex Light © All rights reserved 2018

Caught on Camera is about a dancer who dances everywhere she is. Though one day, someone catches a glimpse of her skills which changes her life forever.

Echo, once named Emmie Rhodes, is kidnapped by an evil witch by the name of Seren and forced to do her bidding in another realm. After a year of solitude, Seren relinquishes her control just enough to give Echo a taste of freedom. While remaining by Serens' side, Echo learns witchcraft & falls in love with Prince Killian and stable boy Alaric, all while fighting the demons in her head and hiding the fact that she is the only powerless being in the realm. When Seren suggests fighting for the crown, Echo is forced to decided whether to follow the voices in her head or her heart. Will evil or good win?

Aaralyn had controlled my whole life, and I'm not even sure she knew who I was. Yet I was the only person who knew who she was. I had a perfectly fine life, I had a group of friends, I had a boyfriend, I lived in an average house, and I had loving parents. But the only thing I had ever wanted was to be her friend. I moved to a bigger house two months ago because my dad had gotten a better job. I suddenly became the popular girl. Everyone wanted to be my friend and more than half the boys in my school wanted me, I was living a teenage dream. Or so I thought. My two months of content and total happiness were over when a new girl came to town, and her name was Aaralyn. I desperately tried to convince myself that the shy & introvert brunette was nothing but another kid. But it was the same girl, and I was once again under her spell.

Abstract Art is a short story about a girl, her younger brother, and their story of finding the true beauty in ourselves.

A Decide Your Destiny novel. ***IMPORTANT: This is only posted to access the comments. This book will be removed. However, I intend to publish it fully in a few months. ** You are the recently coronated Queen Camelia, young and inexperienced, trying to hold together a kingdom on the verge of a civil war after your parents are murdered by revolutionaries. Your choices will determine the outcome of the story: Will you save your people or save yourself? Will you follow your head or your heart? In the end, will you die or survive? You decide your own destiny, so choose wisely. [Cover by @talesofastory]

Every culture has its own version of Cinderella, whether it features glass slippers and fairy godmothers, or enchanted trees and magic fish, the love story endures and goodness is always rewarded. But in this story, Ella has been replaced by Elliot and her beloved prince is a princess severely lacking in charm. Elliot's step-father expects him to work from dawn until dusk, leaving him no time to miss the life of happiness and comfort he once knew. When the rest of his family are invited to a series of balls, held in honour of the Princess Charmaine's return from school, Elliot longs for a night off and the opportunity to reconnect with his childhood friend. But his step-father is busy plotting how his own son can win Charmaine's heart and doesn't want Elliot getting in the way. They will soon discover that Charmaine won't be easily charmed. She doesn't need a husband to rule by her side and she's going to use these balls to prove it. That is, until a friend from her past reappears and she discovers that falling in love doesn't have to mean losing control. Princess Charming is a gender-reversal retelling of Cinderella and a companion story to Mirrored Snow.

A tale as old as time with a rather different twist. When Beau's father steals a cursed rose from the garden of a terrifying beast, Beau bravely offers to take his father's place in servitude. Cursed to appear in the form that will terrify the beholder most, Brielle doesn't know what to make of the new addition to her castle. But the pair slowly learn that there is more to the other than meets the eye. After all, beauty is only skin deep. Skin Deep is a gender-reversed retelling of Beauty and the Beast.

Everyone knows the story of Snow White: blood red lips, ebony hair and skin the colour of freshly fallen snow. Her vain step-mother, desperate to be the 'fairest of them all' attempts four times to have her killed, until her prince comes to save the day. But what if Snow wasn't a princess, but a prince. And the queen's antique silver mirror contained not just her reflection, but a girl. Mirror can no longer remember her name - or life - before the queen imprisoned her. All day, every day, she finds herself at the queen's beck and call; a life of endless servitude and isolation. Snowdon is approaching his 18th birthday and is an increasing threat to the queen's right to rule. And his looks are putting him in the running for her 'fairest' title too. So the queen decides the quickest way to solve all her problems is to get rid of Snowdon. Permanently. But the girl watching their every move has other ideas.