While learning to control his growing magical abilities, Aceal must also learn overcome the stress of ruling the divided Cerulean Kingdom. His best friend, Kira's son, knows more about Aceal's parents than he does. Will finding his beloved unlock the answers he wants, or will it rip a family apart over hidden secrets?

After running away from home, Calypso vowed to never return. The thought of an arranged marriage was beyond her. Why anyone thought she would want to marry someone she had never met was unfathomable. Living alone had its hard times after living such a lavish life, everyone took care of her need's while she sat around doing nothing. She wanted for nothing. Now after a hit has been place for her life by the man she was supposed to marry, turning into a mercenary was her only choice. Getting into the line of work would be the only way to save her life, and set her free to make her own choices.

**** This is my entry for Escaping- Suspense/Thriller Writing Contest 1 **** After being shut in with his fellow performers, Evan's mental health breaks its threshold. Lock down has not been kind to him, as his schizophrenia gets the best of him without anything to hold his attention. Can his fellow performers find a way to escape, before their next on a serial-killers target list, or will Evan die in the process of trying to protect them? How long do they have to last before lock down ends?

I had been partnered with him since my fifth birthday, I couldn’t imagine my life turning upside down so quickly. Most children lost their partnered bears at sixteen as was customary for them to be sent back to their home realm, ready to defend from all attacks. However, I was turning eighteen in two weeks, and this adorable bear who had been my partner for thirteen years, was still with me. Why was I able to still see him while others around us, had lost their partners, was there something special about me other than my gift of sight? I was unprepared for my eighteenth birthday, thinking I would lose him then, I couldn’t picture my life without him. Luckily, I wouldn’t have to, but was I ready to rule alongside him?

After learning her best friend from medical school, who had always been there for her through everything, has romantic feelings for her. Can Melissa overcome the emotional tidal wave raging through her heart? Losing her infant son, and the divorce from her first marriage have scarred her heart, along with revisiting unpleasant memories from the past about her own parents. Finding out the father, that walked out on her at six years old, left her everything of his was her final straw, before her resolve broke. Can she trust herself again, to give Nathan the fair chance he deserves with her?