Coming-of-age Stories

another restart, another fresh perspective

1989, war rages between Colran and Elktan on the island of Coltar. James, a 14-year-old Colran boy, living in occupied Fehahra, is unwittingly chosen to be a member of a...

"My family hides a dark secret. The lies are eating us alive. Time to come out of the broom closet." On the anniversary of a tragic suicide, a diverse group of...

(It's recommended you read Loyal Riptide first for certain elements of God's Gaze to make sense.) When the elemental God's bodies begin to wrinkle and age, they must fin...

A young man goes through a theraputic journey to find himself and what he is capable of, after being put to counseling by his older sister. But, things soon unfold a new...

In this heartfelt and humorous coming-of-age novel (a partially fictionalized memoir), set in 1990s rural Canada and war-torn Sierra Leone, 13-year-old William's world u...

16 year old Orchia Valtey accidentally sets off a zombie apocalypse during her first day at her new job. She now feels obligated to stop the zombie apocalypse with her n...

This story is my happy place; I do not plan on ever finishing it. It will go on and on like a soapie. Might break it up into volumes later. "Grab a bunch of broken...

This is the feel-good tale of thirteen-year-old Juju Jones and her employer, Mr. Squigglesworth. Together these mismatched friends help the Formerly Living while trying...

An orphan boy strikes out into the world to become a hero after a strange event grants him superhuman abilities. But, in a stroke of bad luck, his only ability is to cre...

The war between merfolks and humans has gone on for a hundred years. The human government decides to send five children to the merfolks' world to learn the merfolks' cus...

In the midst of a world pieced together from the fragments of a cataclysm known as the Shattering, Two fates born of Light and Dark intertwined to unravel the true essen...

Hakim is a diligent diploma student on the cusp of graduation, finds his world shattered when his relationship with Vanessa abruptly ends. As he navigates the tumultuous...

This is the lore of my wolf series, Canis Lupus.

Meet June, a now twelve-year-old nobody. Living in a worn-down orphanage. Like every other child there, she has no home, family, or place of belonging. She was often fou...

1st Place Winner at the Arizona State University Fiction Writing Contest in 2021. "Sinking Rocks," explores the fleeting moments of youth and the deep echoes o...

This captivating historical novel delves into the life of Mangal Pandey, a young sepoy soldier whose act of defiance ignited the flames of rebellion in 1857 India. The b...

✧. ꒱ mercy-killing ━━━━━ 𝐄𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐀 ⌘ ᵒᶰᵍᵒᶤᶰᵍ (⸼𓍢✧𓈒⊹ֶָ֢ ) ✎ ┊❛❛ A cerise carmine crimson of red-eye beast tatters an innocuous maiden out ones' hollow pit...

The following content contains the first three chapters of Desert Rose by Tayla van Rooyen. The book is YA and suitable for 14+ BLURB: After a heart-shattering incident...

A shipping romance story of my high-school friends....