coming of age short stories

I fell in love with the most mature teenager I had ever met. She is a top student, gorgeous, caring, and has a good heart. She is the daughter of the Senator. Her name is Cara Brigette Olsen. And she is my student. Who will turn my life upside down?

Beautiful young Roxanne gets caught up in a mysterious deadly experiment of survival created by a multi billion dollar company known as International body of evolutionary divergence aka IBED. If she fails the entire world dies but if she survived the world escapes a deadly world war III... "She was met with two terrible things, the choking smell of rotten corpses and a room full of dead bodies hanging from ropes attached to the roof. Slowly she began to make her way passed the corpses one after the other"

The perpetually 17-year-old Rose Cristian has resurrected. Again. She has to. Otherwise, the evil witch Joanna would succeed in ending the world. Rose isn't worried, though, she has vanquished the enemy several times before and will do so again. Only this time, Joanna's become more powerful and it might be Rose's first loss in their 500-year-old war. That is unless Rose gains access to an ancient curse that's fatal to the witch. The catch? She has to marry the mysterious and brooding Jericho in order to activate the curse. Despite an obvious physical attraction, Rose just can't seem to like her husband and he seems to feel the same. So it's always sarcasm and fistfights whenever they're together. Add into the mix her newfound warrior team: the morose werewolf Ty and the clumsy wizard Trick. Will Rose succeed in her task this century or will she finally breathe her last?

Five officers involved in a joint operation find love and babies with younger women in this compilation of interconnected stories and characters.

When ambitious journalist Quinn lands the scoop of a lifetime - an exclusive with the reclusive billionaire Lachlan McIntyre - she never imagines it will lead her into the eye of a storm... both literally and figuratively. Trapped on Lachlan's private island by a raging typhoon, Quinn finds herself drawn into the orbit of this magnetic older man. As the wind howls outside, Lachlan's carefully constructed walls begin to crumble, revealing dark secrets that could destroy everything he's built. With each passing day, the heat between them intensifies. Quinn knows she should keep things professional, but how can she resist when Lachlan looks at her like she's the answer to every question he's ever had? As Lachlan opens up, sharing his deepest thoughts and desires, Quinn realizes she's stumbled upon the story of a lifetime. But at what cost? The longer she stays, the harder it becomes to decide whether her feelings or career or more important. When the clouds finally part, Quinn faces an impossible choice: pursue the truth that could make her career, or protect the man who's captured her heart? Will Quinn choose ambition or love? Can Lachlan let her go once she knows it all?

Francesca only had one thing on her mind: escaping the hell that is her husband, Alpha Stefano. But it wasn't an easy feat, and more difficult years went by until she found hope in her mate, Alpha Tristan. It had long been scarred and hidden, but Tristan somehow effortlessly opened Francesca's heart again. And even as the world turned against them, she could only be certain of one thing: their love is stronger than all the forces of the universe.

Falling from a bridge and drowned, Gu Qiang traveled into the future and saw that her future-self was pierced by an arrow, shot by the man she loved the most.She became an Empress, but her son was murdered and her family was exterminated. They couldn’t die in peace!When she woke up from what seemed like a vivid dream that foretold the future, she swore to change her fate!To reverse the course of events, she fought against her hypocrite sister and the cunning Emperor. Nothing could stand in her way! Will she succeed in rewriting the story of her life, or will she succumb to fate and experience the same tragedy again?

Anastasha Natividad is the perfection of woman to describe by Zaturnino Villamar. At Age 17, kapansin-pansin na ang likas niyang ganda. Kaya naman marami ang nahuhumaling sa kan'ya, at isa na roon ang panganay na anak ng Governor sa kanilang lugar na si Zaturnino. Ang binatang matanda sa kan'ya ng maraming taon! He has all the opposite of her so called ideal man! But the Beast was so-obsessed with her! Nagbitaw ito ng isang pangako. Akin Ka at Age 18! Pangako, Akin ka...

Nanggaling sa mayamang pamilya si Chelsea. Siya na ang namamahala ng kanilang kompanya bilang CEO. Nainlove siya sa gulang na twenty years old sa kaklase niyang si Mateo. Naghiwalay din sila pagkalipas ng limang taon sa kadahilanang ng taksil si Mateo, nalaman niyang may katalik si Mateo na ibang babae. Dahil dun nagfocus at ginugol niya ang panahon niya sa pagtatrabaho sa kompanya nila. Naging karamay niya si Amalia, ang matalik na kaibigan at kaklase niya noong nasa kolehiyo pa sila at hanggang ngayon. Sa isang restaurant ay may makilala sila na isang gwapong lalaki, matangkad at matipuno na pinagpantasyahan naman nang kaibigan niyang si Amalia. Hindi niya pinapansin ang lalaki noong una dahil wala siyang interes dito. Ngunit sa pagbabakasyon niya sa Isla may makilala naman siyang mayaman, galante at may itsurang lalaki at napag alaman niyang siya ang step son nang may-ari ng resort. Sino kaya ang lalaking bibihag sa kanyang puso pagkatapos nang pinagdaanang sakit sa ex-boyfriend niya? Ano ang katauhan ng mga lalaking nakilala niya sa restaurant at sa resort? May madidiskubre pa kaya siyang lihim sa pagkatao ng mga lalaking nakilala niya? Ano ang magiging reaksiyon ni Chelsea sa lihim ng lalaking nakilala niya sa Isla? Ano nga ba ang lihim sa nakaraan ng lalaking nakilala niya sa restaurant?

Brianna Lester, with her unusually platinum blonde hair and grayish-blue eyes, is impossible to miss wherever she goes. Her bubbly personality, hyperactivity, innate talent for tripping even while standing still, and her knack for always causing trouble ensure that she immediately catches the attention of the coolest tattoo artist around. Unfortunately, it's not her rather unique appearance that gets noticed, but her clumsiness. The moment she closes the door of the tattoo shop, one of the pictures hanging on the wall-the owner's favorite, and quite valuable-unexpectedly falls down. To make up for the damage, she ends up working at the shop until she can pay off the cost of the picture. It would all be pretty easy if a sexy tattoo artist didn't enjoy teasing her about her bad luck. By now, Brianna has resigned herself to the idea that her life is stuck in the "never a joy" zone, and her birthday is proof of that. Who can be considered lucky if they were born on a day that only comes once every four years? No one. Some people are kissed by fortune at birth, while others are kissed by bad luck. Brianna definitely falls into the latter category.