Summary:

 

* ON THE CHAMBER'S TOP TEN MOST FAVORITE STORIES LIST

& NOW KINDLE VELLAS TOP 250 FAVORITES LIST *

FIVE STARS ON AMAZON

When the lines are drawn, will you risk your life to cross them for love?

In the Summer of 1988, tragedy hits home for Charlene Jacobson and her father when her little brother is killed playing a game of basketball in their Detroit housing projects.  She soon finds herself living in the small rural town of Millersville, Georgia, with her estranged grandmother. Millersville is a place where time stands still and the racial divide is as prevalent as the 1950s.  Secrets, lies, and betrayal lurk in every corner. Yet, through it all she finds solace in the arms of Ryan Quinn, a white senior track star and the son of the town Sherriff.  

Will their love cross the finish line?  

EDIT:  Crossing the Finish line has been removed from this site and a revised version with added new content has been published on Amazon Kindle Vella (as of November 2022) under the penname, Shelly B Williams. To those of you who have left reviews, added me to your Favorite Authors and Story Alerts, and helped to make CTFL one of the Top Ten Most Favorited Stories on Valent Chamber, I trully appreciate all the support you have shown me over the years. I hope you will continue to support me as I begin the next phase of my journey as a published author. I couldn't  have done this without you. 

Much Love!

 

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Drama, Romance
Story Status: Completed
Pairings: Male/Female
Warnings: Adult Situations, Drugs/Drug Use, Extreme Language, Graphic Violence, Homosexuality, Original Characters, Racism, Strong Sexual Content , Work in Progress
Challenges: Deep, dark, and mysterious
Series: None
Chapters: 4
Completed:No
Word count: 5758
Read Count: 214593
Published: November 07 2010
Updated: January 09 2014

Summary:

Welcome to the city of Baltimore, MD and into the life of Devyn McKnight. Jewelry designer and entrepreneur, Devyn McKnight, thought she was secure in the shell she built around her life, made of family, friends and her jewelry business but an unexpected encounter challenges all that she is and all that she believes she wants to be.  

 

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Drama, Friendship, Romance
Story Status: None
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Extreme Language, Original Characters, Strong Sexual Content
Series: Journey
Chapters: 32
Completed:Yes
Word count: 91963
Read Count: 104078
Published: December 11 2011
Updated: January 07 2014

Summary:

Love is kind, yet brutal. Warm, but so cold. Joyful, yet sad. 

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Drama
Story Status: Active
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Original Characters, Sexual Content , Un-betaed , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 3
Completed:No
Word count: 18403
Read Count: 4301
Published: September 24 2013
Updated: January 07 2014

Summary:

For Elyshia Jenkins, one night will change her life forever.
If it is for the better or worse, only time will tell.

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: General
Genre: Comedy , Drama, Erotica, Family, Friendship, Psychological, Romance
Story Status: Active
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, BDSM, Character Death, Dark Fic, Dubcon, Original Characters, Racism, Sexual Content , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 6
Completed:No
Word count: 16634
Read Count: 38108
Published: September 03 2013
Updated: January 03 2014

Summary:

You can never leave the past behind. It always manages to catch up with you. Charlotte has to learn that the hard way. 

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Drama, Erotica, Romance
Story Status: Active
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Extreme Language, Original Characters, Racism, Rape, Sexual Content , Un-betaed , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 1
Completed:No
Word count: 1325
Read Count: 1014
Published: January 03 2014
Updated: January 03 2014

Summary:

Life is all about the struggle- the struggle to survive or die, to love or hate. Among the trappings of a hard lived life, Olivia Morgan has survived because she has refused to fall prey to love.  Enter Jack Eton, a former flame who reignites the fiery passion that threatens to consume them both.   She has a choice; to run or to get caught up in a love that was destined for destruction?

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: Original Character(s)
Classification: General
Genre: Erotica, Romance
Story Status: Active
Pairings: Male/Female, Original
Warnings: Adult Situations, Drugs/Drug Use, Extreme Language, Original Characters, Sexual Content , Un-betaed , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 3
Completed:No
Word count: 7407
Read Count: 9790
Published: December 03 2013
Updated: January 02 2014

Summary:

Leslie West is a quiet beautiful southern belle who just moved up to New York, Blake Caldron is a fashion guru who can't seem to keep his eyes off of a new church attendee. Due to certain circumstances he needs to watch from a far... But for how long?

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: General
Genre: Drama, Romance
Story Status: None
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Character Death, Dark Fic, Drugs/Drug Use, Extreme Language, Graphic Violence, Original Characters, Rape, Strong Sexual Content
Series: None
Chapters: 18
Completed:No
Word count: 28720
Read Count: 33057
Published: August 14 2011
Updated: December 31 2013

Summary:

 

After a scathing indiscretion, NBA all-star James “JD” Denson is shipped back to his hometown in Tennessee to lay low, and to let his legal team handle the fall out of a night of drunken debauchery. With a lot of time on his hands, James accidentally concocts his own hair-brained scheme to get back into the NBA’s good graces.

When Tayla Maxwell, fresh out of culinary school, returns home to take a much needed break before real life begins, she has the misfortune of running into an ego-maniac with a laundry list of issues no one in their right mind would try to fix. Convinced that helping him trick an entire nation is a good idea, Tayla suddenly finds herself stuck between a rock and hard-headed fool who’ll either drive her to drink or make all of her dreams come true

 

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: General
Genre: Comedy , Drama, Romance
Story Status: Active
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations
Series: None
Chapters: 4
Completed:No
Word count: 13762
Read Count: 6272
Published: October 24 2013
Updated: December 30 2013

Summary:

 

It’s about to be a New Year for Lauren Masters, but there is one thing she never planned for – meeting him. 

 

 

 

Beta-Reader: Anni Grey <--- She's awesome.

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Comedy , Erotica, Romance
Story Status: Active
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Extreme Language, Strong Sexual Content , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 1
Completed:No
Word count: 2155
Read Count: 1951
Published: December 29 2013
Updated: December 29 2013

Summary:

 

               Thanks to LadySade for the awesome banner! :)

 

Landon Baxter was the perfect guy. He had everything any man or woman would kill for. He had his dream job, a beautiful family, the world at his feet. He was loved by any and everyone. His life was perfect, that was until he lost his mother.

Now he has a problem with that little white rock and he can't put down the pipe. Landon lost his way and he can't seem to find his way back to reality.

Would he ever be able to find his way back? or Would he be forever losing his way?

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: General
Genre: Action-Adventure , Comedy , Drama, Family, Friendship, Inspirational, Romance
Story Status: Active
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Character Death, Dark Fic, Drugs/Drug Use, Extreme Language, Fluff, Graphic Violence, Original Characters, Rape, Sexual Content , Spritualism, Strong Sexual Content , Un-betaed , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 5
Completed:No
Word count: 9784
Read Count: 5193
Published: November 11 2013
Updated: December 29 2013

Summary:

  Rosco Witherspoon is an intelligent young lady. In the 1950s South, there are virtually no opprotunities for her considering that she is an African American. By the grace of God, a family will risk everything they have to give her everything she deserves so that she can get a fitting High School education. Following the death of her mother, her three older sisters clench  their teeth as they decide to send their youngest off to be cared for by people they've never had a reason to trust because of their skin.

 

     She'll cause the small town to go into an uproar upon her arrival. How long can she get by with passing before she is outed?

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Family, Friendship, Historical, Romance
Story Status: Active
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Character Death, Extreme Language, Graphic Violence, Original Characters, Racism, Sexual Content , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 21
Completed:No
Word count: 60746
Read Count: 24192
Published: November 23 2011
Updated: December 15 2013

Summary:

Denise is a young woman who is on the verge of giving up on love. Never having love in her life she is wondering what is wrong until she meets Issac. Issac has been avoiding relationships for the past few years to support himself but is ashamed of telling someone what he does for a living. Will he tell her his secret? But will she tell him hers?

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Drama, Erotica, Friendship, Romance
Story Status: Active
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Original Characters, Strong Sexual Content
Series: None
Chapters: 16
Completed:Yes
Word count: 35052
Read Count: 29404
Published: October 29 2013
Updated: December 08 2013

Summary:

Vulcan socialites, secrets, prejudices. Can infinite diversity in infinite combinations persist? On a visit, Spock & Uhura discover that New Vulcan is not only a difficult place to fit in, it may hold danger for Sarek. As outsiders, can they uncover a plot and maintain their bond? S/U,Kirk, OCs, Scotty, Enterprise crew members & Gaila in later chapters. Fluff, Emo!Spock, some bad language. Draws upon the TOS Star Trek episode, "Journey to Babel" by D.C. Fontana.

Table of Contents
Categories: Movies
Characters: Nyota Uhura (Film)
Classification: General
Genre: Romance
Story Status: Completed
Pairings: Uhura/Spock
Warnings: Adult Situations, Fluff, Original Characters, Sexual Content , Un-betaed
Series: None
Chapters: 23
Completed:Yes
Word count: 85006
Read Count: 89273
Published: December 04 2013
Updated: December 05 2013

Summary:

It takes a strong, confident woman to allow a man to take the lead. It takes an even stronger man to be able to take her where she needs to go.

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: General
Genre: Romance
Story Status: Active
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Original Characters, Un-betaed , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 6
Completed:No
Word count: 15313
Read Count: 7268
Published: August 15 2013
Updated: November 28 2013

Summary:

 

A Special Thank You to MINX for the AMAZING banner.

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. 

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Romance
Story Status: None
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Extreme Language, Fluff, Original Characters, Racism, Sexual Content , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 16
Completed:No
Word count: 15038
Read Count: 39264
Published: May 29 2009
Updated: November 19 2013

Summary:

 

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.

 (The Banner is a temp until I can make something better. I just wanted to give the reader an idea of the characters I have in mind.)

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Comedy , Romance
Story Status: None
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Extreme Language, Fluff, Graphic Violence, Original Characters, Sexual Content , Strong Sexual Content , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 4
Completed:No
Word count: 4521
Read Count: 11987
Published: June 14 2010
Updated: November 19 2013

Summary:

 

A'isha is a fashion designer by trade. Though she is in a business filled with superficial spoiled brats and air heads she is different. At 5’3 tall and what most would call a plus size girl she is far from the norm in her line of business, a tulip amongst roses. She shy’s away from the spot light and always has a kind word for everyone she meets her beauty shines from an inner light that refuses to be extinguished.

Elton is a prominent plastic surgeon. Making money from the insecurities of women and men alike in A’ishas line of business has been his way of life for many years. In every person he meets he can spot their flaws in an instant, but meeting A’isha changes his life. Opening his eyes to the possibility of someone who didn’t need to be changed in any way, someone dare he say it perfect.

When the two meet sparks fly and lives are changed forever.

 (The Banner is a temp until I can make something better. I just wanted to give the reader an idea of the characters I have in mind.)

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Comedy , Erotica, Romance
Story Status: None
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Extreme Language, Fluff, Racism, Sexual Content , Strong Sexual Content , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 4
Completed:No
Word count: 4484
Read Count: 18862
Published: June 14 2010
Updated: November 19 2013

Summary:

 

10 years went by in the blink of an eye. Now eveyone was gathered in a tiny town for there highschool reunion. Sparks will fly as old 'friends' meet again.

Then enters two guys who have come with the intention of wooing the one girl they shouldnt have let go of in the first place. The only problem is there after the same girl.

On this unlevel playing field where hurt, love and jealousy run wild everyone is playing for keeps

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: General
Genre: Drama, Friendship, Romance
Story Status: Active
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Original Characters, Sexual Content , Strong Sexual Content , Un-betaed , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 6
Completed:No
Word count: 15228
Read Count: 10427
Published: June 22 2013
Updated: November 16 2013

Summary:

 

Other Half has come out with their latest model. Jae finds himself owner of the most lifelike robotic companion yet.

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: General
Genre: Romance, Science Fiction
Story Status: Muse went on vacation, no idea when it will be back
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Original Characters, Work in Progress
Challenges: Made to Order
Series: None
Chapters: 6
Completed:No
Word count: 6404
Read Count: 5142
Published: September 12 2013
Updated: November 07 2013

Summary:

There is nothing like the love of a man for a woman, of a child for its parents. But it’s those that are willing to risk everything for this love that survives. Will a prince waiting to inherit the kingdom let himself fall for a peasant or will he marry someone he doesn’t love for the sake of his kingdom? “You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.” – Kris Vallotton

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: General
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Story Status: None
Pairings: Male/Female
Warnings: Adult Situations, Original Characters, Sexual Content
Series: None
Chapters: 6
Completed:No
Word count: 9247
Read Count: 8697
Published: March 19 2012
Updated: November 05 2013

Summary:

Aubrey is living the perfect life or so it seems. With her demanding boyfriend, Vincent and his quick temper, she doesn't know how much more she can take. Things take a turn for the worse when Chase a co-worker steps in . . or maybe a turn for the better?

 

This story contains - Violence, Abuse, Sex and Rape (further into the story)

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Drama, Romance
Story Status: Active
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Dark Fic, Extreme Language, Graphic Violence, Original Characters, Rape, Sexual Content , Strong Sexual Content , Un-betaed , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 7
Completed:No
Word count: 24078
Read Count: 11047
Published: December 20 2012
Updated: October 31 2013

Summary:

For Jamie Watson, raising Alex was supposed to be a short time gig, a means to an end before starting her new life. But with it brings a type of love she never could have imagined with Alex's father Mitch. While caring for him brings them together, will doing what's best for him tear them apart? 

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Comedy , Drama, Erotica, Romance
Story Status: None
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Original Characters, Strong Sexual Content , Un-betaed , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 11
Completed:No
Word count: 20139
Read Count: 54857
Published: May 20 2013
Updated: October 25 2013

Summary:

 

Brooklyn streets are grimy, grimier than the gunk on the concrete pavement, can't trust anyone or anything. But for Ekene Sosa, high school art teacher, it was the safest place in the world. That safe world soon gets turned upside down as she uncovers the dark secrets of her families past and finds herself being a number one target on every gang banger and crime mob hit list. 

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: General
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance, Suspense
Story Status: Active
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Drugs/Drug Use, Extreme Language, Graphic Violence, Original Characters, Rape, Sexual Content , Strong Sexual Content , Un-betaed , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 6
Completed:No
Word count: 15393
Read Count: 3910
Published: August 14 2013
Updated: October 17 2013

Summary:

Elise Jones was gonna end her life. She was gonna lie in the sand and wait for the tide to drown her. Or that was the plan until she was interrupted by a stranger and called on her BS. Why can't she be left alone in her dramatics?

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: Original Character(s)
Classification: General
Genre: Comedy , Drama, Erotica, Romance
Story Status: Completed
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Dark Fic, Extreme Language, Original Characters, Racism, Un-betaed
Series: None
Chapters: 3
Completed:Yes
Word count: 2313
Read Count: 5284
Published: December 28 2012
Updated: October 12 2013

Summary:

When there is chemistry between a male and a female it seems that no vow, no higher order can prevent what will happen. Chemistry will always have it's way.- unknown.

Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Romance
Story Status: Completed
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Sexual Content
Series: None
Chapters: 1
Completed:Yes
Word count: 712
Read Count: 1423
Published: October 11 2013
Updated: October 11 2013