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.)

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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!

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.  

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?

**** STEREO has been removed for editing, refining and if all goes according to plan, publishing! I couldn't have finished it without all my readers leaving their words and thoughts--even if I didn't always like them--so THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart. <3

Bastien wasnt expecting her and Cameron never wanted him.

One purple eye and one brown eye, the eyes that marked her as not just as a 'demon' but as a halfbreed.

Jayden made the biggest mistake of his life when he let the love of his life slip through his fingers.  Could he make it right and start anew?  Tamaeya had been burned by Jayden once and had no intentions of being burnt a second time, but it seemed that the heart had it's own mind.

Merri Tallon is a fifty year old widow that wants to have some fun.  Her single adult children think that she should sit in the corner and knit, but Merri has something else in mind!

At some point, you'll have to eventually let your guard down.

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.

A virtual wallflower for most of her life, what will Sasha do when she encounters the first man to ever make her want to be noticed? Dmitri is a man used to being surrounded by the most beautiful things, including women. Will he accept Sasha, a woman who is usually overshadowed by the beauty of her friends? Is he capable of noticing that while her beauty may not be as blatant, it should still be treaured? This is the story of a wallflower and the man she loves.

Sasha: the Wallflower has been removed from this site and is available for purchase on Amazon Kindle. Thank you all for your support!

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

Formally Ashes, Ashes

Red flashing lights…

Heavy footsteps echoed through the deserted hallway.

Fire alarms blared...

Breaths lodged in throats as the search for survival worsened.

Pungent smell of death overwhelmed as the Z’s closed in...

Survival was futile now, running was the only escape; in this new apocalyptic post war world, living was no longer guaranteed.

I experienced him on paper long before I witnessed him on film. In my mind, he was so much more than a villain to be conquered and killed. He deserved his own story, love and maybe a family. I decided to give it to him. My friend said, "He would make a great character for a story" I couldn't agree more. 

Lance was a man who had it all and lost it all. He was down and out and was ready to give up because he had nothing to live for. Nina was a woman who had enough of being used and was trying to start her life over in a new city. When these two meet will Lance have something to live for? Or will he continue to live in misery. 

How far will you go when you're lonely?

In 69 B.C  Gaius Julius Caesar, a loyal general of Rome and protector of his people, fell in love. It was not the love of his beautiful wife, Cornelia, nor was it the love of his promise to Rome, but of a simple slave girl who possessed his heart at the age of thirty-one, while she was seventeen. Her name was Nona, and this is their tale before her heart was captured by another and before the ides of March.

Secrets are hidden among the plush,moist forest of  Rio, Brazil in the summer of 1955. The Taluro's, a wealthy Afro-Brazilian family have kept to themselves for generations. Bobbie Taluro is the last remaining female in her family....it seems that past women in the families generation have only disappeared. No one knows the Taluro's mysterious secret...except Bobbie's grandfather.

But as the sun arises and shines down to the neigboring ocean by the Taluro house... a boat sinking Todd will quickly learn about the tragic and somewhat beautiful secret of the Taluro ancestry.

WARNING: MUCH SEXUAL CONTENT