California Stories

***THIS STORY WILL BECOME FREE ON JULY 15t!*** Kelsey Harris, a young chef moving to LA, struggles with work, the glamour of the hollywood scene, and a new romance with mega-celebrity Ethan Glenn. ***** Kelsey Harris is heading to LA to begin her new career as a sous chef, and she's excited to work under a prestigious mentor and feed fabulous celebrities. She also meets Ethan Glenn, a movie star with doubts about his career, on the plane. But when she settles in, she learns that her new job is more intense than she expected, and her roommate is acting strange. When they happen to be on the same movie set, Ethan and Kelsey begin to grow close, though their friendship is immediately put under scrutiny by friends and the media. A romance begins, but the delicate facade of Hollywood is slipping, and Kelsey has to decide if she wants to escape the photographers and screaming fans, or if she wants to be with Ethan and put up with the consequences. [[Wattys 2018 Shortlist]] [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]]

"I think that your brother is hotter than you. I'm leaving you" Kate Roberts, a high school student, is always referred as a 'good for nothing', while his twin sister Anna Roberts, is the queen of her class and is currently dating the hottest guy of the school, Brandon Johnson, who is often called the 'prince' of Kerlin County High. He is the best at everything he does. But suddenly, he dumps Anna, know the reason why? Check out the hottest and cutest love story, but it's just a bit different....how exactly? Well, you surely checked the genres. "I'm so fucking fabulous- I pee glitter, shit cupcakes and fart rainbows!!" All I Want Copyright 2018

When the lights go out and there are no stars in the sky to show you the way, a great many things can go wrong. Cassie learns this firsthand. Haunted by the demons of her past, she decides to leave behind everything that once mattered to her. Though her heart still aches for what is gone for good, Cassie sets out to find meaning in her life again. Along the way she's helped by unexpected friendships, and by feelings blossoming for a boy she shares one thing with: they both want to reach the stars.

When they were twelve, Michael built a tree house-a quiet sanctuary where he could escape the world. Then came Elise. What started with an accidental meeting soon turned the little tree house into their haven place and made a promise that would change everything. Whoever got married first gets the tree house. It was a ridiculous promise. A childish one. Years later, Michael is chasing the biggest dream of his life, building a career that leaves little room for anything permanent, except a long list of women who never seem to stay. Elise, on the other hand, is ready to settle down. She's dating a man who's only one ring away from making the promise come true. What begins as a harmless competition, slowly unravels years of unspoken feelings, almost-confessions, and the terrifying realization that maybe the person they've been searching for has been standing beside them all along. Because sometimes, your one true love isn't about finding someone new. It's about finally seeing the one who's been there since the beginning.

Vista Del Halcon was supposed to be a quiet city. Riverside County high schools weren't supposed to become crime scenes. When fifteen-year-old Noah Solis is found brutally attacked and thrown from a second-story window behind the school's abandoned 500 building, the student body fractures. For Kasey Ramirez, it was supposed to be a normal Tuesday afternoon, just an annoying ten-minute wait for a friend who flaked. Instead, she stumbles directly into a nightmare, becoming the prime suspect in a crime she didn't commit. As rumor mills churn and teenage alibis twist over text messages, the case lands in the laps of the Vista Del Halcon Police Department. Led by a stoic veteran, a world-class forensics investigator with zero patience for drama, and a sharp, cynical tech specialist tracking the victim's digital footprint, the detectives begin to peel back the layers of the high school's social hierarchy. But high school secrets are currency, and everyone is lying to cover their own tracks. To catch the real culprit, the detectives must untangle a messy web of hidden rivalries, quiet betrayals, and anonymous tips before the truth gets buried for good.

You're a certified social worker at the university of sacramento falling in love with a start athlete that is your student.

She promised she'd only be gone for a year. At twenty, moving across the world felt like the opportunity of a lifetime. New places. New friendships. New dreams. The only thing harder than leaving England was leaving Arthur. What starts as a one-year adventure slowly becomes a life she never expected to build, and with every month she stays away, the distance between them grows harder to ignore. Torn between the future she's creating abroad and the life waiting for her back home, Alice finds herself forced to make an impossible choice. But some choices don't come with clear answers. Told through diary entries, heartbreak, second chances, and the quiet moments that shape a life, Home Was Always You is a story about love, growing up, and discovering that sometimes the thing you're searching for was never a place at all. It was a person.

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Hopper McCollum thought he'd escaped his past when he crossed the ocean to St. Gloriana. He was wrong. Because the moment Darjeeling calls his name, he's pulled into a world of quiet power, old traditions, and secrets that were waiting for him long before he arrived. Now Hopper must decide what he really is - a boy shaped by California's shadows, or the young man Gloriana has chosen to stand among its heirs. No battles. No tanks. Just the most dangerous challenge he's ever faced: becoming himself. Readers will follow Hopper into candlelit halls, whispered rites, and the elegant storm of identity he can't outrun. Hopper stops surviving... and starts becoming unforgettable.

Book One of the "Song Series"! "I like me better when I'm with you..." Avalon Wilde didn't come to NYU looking for love but Will Hunter wasn't part of the plan. He's charming, British, and a little too good at making her forget her walls. What starts as a chance encounter turns into late-night messages, stolen moments, and a connection Avalon doesn't know how to handle. But when secrets from Will's past resurface, ones that hit closer to home than she expected, Avalon has to decide if love is worth the risk... or if protecting her heart means letting go.

❝ 𝑮𝑶𝑫 𝑺𝑨𝑽𝑬 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑷𝑹𝑶𝑴 𝑸𝑼𝑬𝑬𝑵 𝑻𝑬𝑨𝑵𝑨𝑮𝑬 𝑫𝑨𝒀 𝑫𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑴 ❞ ══════════════════════════ .ᐟ.ᐟ enemies to lovers. MASON THAMES X FEM!OC REAL LIFE X ONLINE #4 IN PROM #2 IN EMBREIGH love yall and dont forget to vote

SAN FRANCISCO SERIES 2 Some loves are simply about being present for the duration of what's real, about choosing someone with full knowledge of the cost, about walking toward the edge because the view along the way is worth the falling. I walked toward it. She was worth every step. And maybe that's what makes it what it is. Not tragic. That word is too easy, too dramatic, too borrowed from stories that haven't earned it. Just true. Just real. Just the specific weight of two people who loved each other within the limits of their circumstances, who tried within the architecture of almosts they'd built around themselves, who were - from the very beginning, from the first haiku pressed into her hands at a café table in San Francisco - always going to be almost. Never quite ours. In every universe, I find you first. Even saying goodbye.

Camilla Huang had been lost in the undercurrents of her life. It had been nearly a year since her world was knocked off kilter, nearly a year since she lost her best friend to the waves. Camilla was left behind in the foamy wreckage, scrambling to make sense of the tragedy, scrambling to make sense of her life as it was now. There was one thing that her best friend loved more than anything else in the world: the precious sea turtles found at their favorite beach in Malibu. Camilla realized she had to follow her best friend's footsteps in the sand and help save the sea turtles. She teamed up with a local college student and petitioned the city of Malibu to give them an office and a platform -- and they were given it! They soon got to work in the same building as Malibu Junior Rescue, both groups working to save the people and animals that flocked to Malibu Beach. After she found her best friend's bucket list, Camilla knew she had to do one thing: complete everything on the bucket list, no matter how hard it was. With the help of her new friends at Malibu Junior Rescue, she knew she could tackle each and every dream and actually live again, just like her best friend would have wanted. And maybe, just maybe she would fall in love with this crazy thing called life -- and even with a cute boy named Tyler -- in the process. Camilla Huang had a borrowed dream. She lived a borrowed life. It was up to her to keep those dreams afloat above the waves. It was up to her to live life for the two of them.

« 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝑰'𝒎 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆. 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒚𝒐𝒖. » It was the cruel summer of 2020. There wasn't much going on at the moment. Or at least that's what Emma thought up until meeting Bobby-a boy she never expected to meet, let alone fall for. But you know what they say-the heart wants what it wants, and sometimes that involves challenging everything you thought you knew about the world, especially when Emma believes that her world should be golden. She's got goals-Grammy winning kind of goals, that don't involve the kind of complications Bobby brings. And falling for Bobby was never part of the plan. Emma's weekends at her cousins' neighborhood was supposed to be carefree and simple. Not lying to sneak off elsewhere. What starts as something unexpected quickly becomes something she can't ignore... even when the secret slips. Because when feelings get involved, so do opinions, expectations, and the people who aren't afraid to make theirs known. Suddenly, growing up isn't as simple as it seems... especially when you're fifteen. « 𝑰 𝒔𝒏𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒆. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒅, '𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒂𝒊𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅?' »

☆☆-Leon Cashmere has his own mafia, doing what he needs to do.He's also the CEO of the fashion industry, Gaze, owned by his aunt, Anya. Previously, he fell in love with a girl whom he loved, she died trying to protect him. One sudden morning, someone hired him his personal bodyguard, Noel Rodriguez, to protect him from being killed by EXCEED, a dangerous mafia group plotting to take his inheritance from his grandfather. With this sudden change, Leon has a dislike against Noel. What happens when he realizes he's having chemistry with his bodyguard regardless of the risky situation he is in? -☆☆ WARNING: SA Swearing Gun violence Murder Violent scenes Gore 18+ Smut SH Suicide attempts And more... (Book Status: Completed!) Well I hope you guys enjoy this journey with me!! :)) I've been inspired to write this, and I'm a beginner at writing so please dont hate on me for having spelling mistakes. :( Well enjoy I guess :DD First book of the Unknown series! {Credits to my friends, Shadow_0315 and cucumber_22222, along with dear readers for helping me finish this book!}

When twenty-one-year-old Josie Callahan moves from Boston to California after graduating college, the last thing she expects is to meet someone who makes the unfamiliar feel like home. As she navigates a new life, new opportunities, and an uncertain future, an unexpected friendship begins to grow with the quiet young man living nearby. What starts as a simple friendship slowly becomes something more-but Josie has no idea that the boy she's falling for is one of the biggest stars in the world. A slow-burn friends-to-lovers story set in the summer of 1983.

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A dead rangers ghost stalks the life of a young woman who moves to the west coast in search of her long lost mother. In addition to her discovery she uncovers the truth behind the haunting and how it relates to her mothers unspoken past.

"You always disappear when I need you most." He said looking at the girl with a blunt in between her lips. "I'm sorry?" she apologized confused on what to say - !Fuckshit x reader!

When Sebastian Smith transfers to SDSU, his reputation as a playboy follows him; charming, reckless, and impossible to ignore. Dani Harper knows better than to get close, especially when she already has the perfect, loving boyfriend. But the more time she spends with Sebastian, the more something stirs inside her that she can't ignore. Through his eyes, she begins to see the version of herself she's always wanted to be.