You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose. But you can't pick your family.
Zoey Vance woke up in the hospital with no memory of her life before that moment. She doesn't even know her own name. Now she has to try and put the pieces of her life back together with the help of the man who hit her with his car that fateful night. As her memories start to return she wonders if she is better off not knowing who she really is.
Brian Preston is consumed with guilt, the woman just ran out into the street with no warning. He coudln't avoid hitting her. He feels it is his personal responsibility to care for her until she can care for herself and moves her in with him and his fiance, Macy. As time wears on he starts to wonder if he wants her around to ease his guilt or if there aren't bigger emotions at play.
While returning home to Chicago from a business trip Anika Wallace and Hunter Sterling IV find themselves the only surviors of a plane crash on a South Pacific island. There's no telling when they'll make it back home or if they ever will make it back home for that matter. One thing is for sure they're going to have to learn how to get along their survival is depending on it.
Camille Jackson was rejected since birth over her dark skin complexion. She has grown a tough skin and doesn’t get attached to anyone because of how some people have viewed her without even getting to know her. However Camille opens her heart to a baby in need and for the first six months Camille has grown to love the baby as if she were her own. That is until the baby's biological father comes into the picture.
Hiram Whitfield Jr was brought up in one of the most well known Ku Klux Klan families in the south and as the only son he feels the pressure to carry on his family's tradition. After finishing his prison sentence all Hiram wants to do is change his life for the better and be a good father to his child. If that means being disowned by his bigoted family then so be it. Ironically enough Hiram would have never thought that Camille would be the one to be his rock and strength to do so.
Lila James knows that her friendship with seventeen year old Chase Almeida is extremely inappropriate, but she still isn't prepared when his older brother Jack decides to tell her just how inappropriate it actually is-- inadvertently igniting a fire that had been burning quietly inside of them for years.
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Benjamin Cunningham III decided to finally open the box that his adopted parents had given him which would reveal his past. Little did he know that its contents would change his life forever.
When rockstar Adam Brand makes a racist remark during a drunken magazine interview, it becomes an international headline. Within hours his PR Agent concocts the perfect plan to revive his rapidly sinking career before it’s too late, but will Adam be able to pull it off?
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Having chosen modeling over ministry, Jeremy Ferguson had often felt his father's scorn and disapproval. Now he was coming home to visit and bringing the love of his life, Aura Vanderleigh who happens to be black. Growing up in South Carolina, Jeremy knows what his father's reaction will be even if he is a minister!
The Preacher's Son is an original work of fiction. Please do not copy or post this story to any other websites. Copyright 2009 BRAnderson
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Ellie finds herself living the life that she could only imagine in her dreams. She has graduated from college with a degree in accounting, she is with the man she loves who is just as succesful, if not more than her, and he has just asked her to marry him. What more could a girl ask for? What could go wrong? Everything begins to change once she meets his family and realizes they dont like her. Can this break up their relationship? What is she to do? What about their "family" business? Will their marraige go on? After being on top the only place left to go is down, and Ellie is sure on her way there.
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Alicia meets Nick and they begin a Journey full of love, forgiveness and Passion. From two different worlds their love bridges the culture gap and emotional walls come crashing down. This is a Story of faith and love in its purest forms.
Alicia is in her third year of nursing school, at 23 she is more than ready to take on the real world after moving to New York far away from her overprotective family where she is learning to depend more on herself and taking big steps to her independance.
Nick is a first generation Chinese-American living in New York, at 25 he is done pleasing everyone but himself, he was to be a doctor like his father and for most of his life he spent his days and nights studying and working at that goal... In the last year before his graduation from medical school Nick decides to take a break and
somehow how ended up buying a club with his bestfriend Sean. one year later Nick is conflicted though he loves his life the one he made for himself he misses his family and he even misses medical school. After his little detour from the path his father wanted him to take his family relationships are strained at best. Alicia teaches him the meaning of forgiveness and shows him that its time to let go of the past to embrace the future.
Natasha Roberts is a paediatrician with a healing touch and warm smile at 30 years of age, she is a beautiful woman with a broken spirit which she keeps hidden. When with her group of friends she is the listner, understander and the one her friends depend on for all the answers. Her secret is she that is unable to have children which is the reason her ex-husband gave her for their divorce, she lives to heal children even if it reminds her of what she can never have.
Angelo Luciano Salvatore is a mob boss and the head of the Salvatore Crime Family. He likes to think of himself as a business man when most would call him a ruthless bastard. The day his wife died he become a heartless shell who begins to neglect his son turning to his business for comfort. Until his son is taken to the hospital for a simple check up and is found to have the very disease that killed his mother Polycystic kidney disease. which in time would have killed him if not for Natasha who falls in love with the Christopher’s loving soul and finds herself as a match to donate one of her own kidneys to save his life. When Angelo meets Natasha he is cold and hurtful , Natasha in turn gives him a piece of her mind. Hands on her hips her eyes spitting fire she tells him off then walks away leaving Angelo to reflect on her words and the beautiful woman that Saved his son and made him whole once again.
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Always the odd woman out, Keisha Barrett, for once wanted to be the woman on the arm of the man of every woman's dreams. Who knew a lunch date with her girlfriends could hold the answer to her dreams.
Ethan Carrington, British international businessman and confirmed bachelor, was tired of the lifestyle he had been living. Expensive cars, trendy night clubs, leggy models/actresses, and gold diggers were the norm until the day her meet her...
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One night in Vegas changes the luck of two strangers.
Grace is a good girl to the bone, though she loves her job as a teacher she wants some excitement and for her twenty-fifth birthday she wants to shed that good girl image. Not be predictable Grace but a sexy wanton vixen,so her friends take her to Las Vegas, where her life is changed forever.
Kevin is an NFL all star and all around player. He is in Vegas because he was told to lay low after sleeping with the wife of one of his team mates, he has to figure out a way to change his image and quick.
Sometimes what happens in Vegas shouldn't stay in Vegas and in Kevin and Grace's case it wont.
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”- Henry Kissinger
In the game of social politics not everyone has power and some don’t understand the power they wield. The power to make and break lives rest in the hands of one man but be careful, he is always watching.
In the Sedetian Empire a Dashenka male rules with absolute power. While the female is taught submission and obeisance. And humans are nothing more than slaves. It is within this society that half-breed Aria Skal is born and must learn to accept if she has any hope surviving. But survival seems nearly impossible when she discovers that her Vadar has sold her to the highest bidder, the son of the Ruling Male.
Oren Di-Lor is a cruel and overbearing male who hates the very air Aria breathes. He is her newly acquired mate and the bane of her existence.
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Lucas Spaulding waited three years before he could claim his woman his mother brought into their privilaged home. She swore that she would never leave, now it looks like she needs to be reminded who she belongs to. she's on notice. Lucas is on the hunt and he doesn't intend to play fair.
Lorilei Riley is a large black girl who was uprooted at age five when her mother marries and relocates to the small mostly white mining town of Appalachia. She is the object of ridicule and scorn. She immediately bonds with Micah Hamilton a young classmate who is also an outsider because of a large growth on his face.
Micah gets a chance at a normal life by having a surgery to remove the growth and Lorilei wonders as they both reach adulthood if Micah has remained with her out of friendship and loyalty or if a guy like him, could really come to love a plus size girl like her.
In The Eyes of the Beholder is an original work of fiction. Please do not copy or post this story to any other websites. Copyright 2011 BRAnderson
Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended.
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