Amanda: 621 books

My name is Skylar Montgomery, and I always promised myself I would never end up like my mother. Relying on a man that thought beating a woman was the only way to go, and for a while there I hadn’t ended up like her. Now, at twenty-one years old, I have become just like my mother, until that one...

A free excerpt of an old journal entry about a cat's meow in the middle of the night and how it haunted our Halloween.

Sniper had never had a home or family of any permanence. He'd bounced from one foster home to another, but they never stuck. Life made him hard at an early age and he thought the only home he would ever find was in the military. There he met Ben and in him found the brother he'd always longed...

Matilda Dupree has loved her brother's best friend for most of her life, but he's never seen her as anything but a tomboy who tagged along behind him...or so she thinks.Can Ned convince her that he does in fact see her as a woman and wants to settle down with her for all time?When...

Preacherman had lived for the club, he had bled for the club, and he would die for the club, but maybe there was more to life than the MC. He knew he needed Mrs., but he had never realized just how much until he almost lost her. Mrs. gave up her life to be with a man who promised security and...

Shadow had lived in the darkness since his life had been ripped to shreds. He'd been just a boy and too small to fight the evil that had come to take his mother away from him. His weakness had cost him everything. It had cost him the one person who had ever loved him, the only one who had ever...

She knew him as a smile that lit up the dark places in her mind. She knew him as an easygoing laugh or a comforting embrace. She knew him as if he were a dream that she dare not hope for. She knew him as Lamb. He knew her as the feisty woman with the purple hair who danced for the masses. He knew...

How Nadine and Libby Escaped Destiny is a short story, a slice of life that looks at the scene rarely focused on when life-changing events may occur. A child is playing and a mother watches her as Fate barrels down to meet them. In the midst of this bittersweet scene, whatever else may happen the image of an innocent child softly singing will haunt you...

My dream was to play for the NFL, and that was always the plan...until she caught me off guard. Now, we were married to a secret, a secret that would bind me to her for the rest of my life, but I needed a way out. And I almost thought I would be able to get out, but I was sadly mistaken.  When...

Aston Boyd has always put everything into her work. She has never needed anyone in her life and has survived on her own since she was 18, never looking back. When she gets her dream promotion and becomes the new editor at one of the biggest publishing houses in Arizona, she thinks she has finally...

What do you do when the one person you have always wanted, you can almost never have?  We found each other by chance and it was perfect, easy and everything I could have asked for. Our love was one for the books. When he moved next door, my entire world flipped upside down and inside out,...

After meeting a tall, dark and handsome stranger one night at a bar while out with her best friend, Hadley Smith spews out one tiny white lie that would normally never affect her life, but this time is different.  Hadley has been in a three year relationship with Ryan Tate, a successful attorney...

The stories in this collection each show acceptance of others simply because they are, once the preconceived conception of others needing to fit in a molds constructed by a society lost in dogma. I hope the reader of these stories will learn to reach outside the box of social sameness and learn that...

Deadborn Denver can be a haunted place, especially when you have an undead collector stalking you and a shambling horror is snatching kids. Being a monster fighter is a thankless job for El Walton: The world thinks he’s a social menace, an escaped mental patient is sleeping in his kitchen,...