Competitive shooter Bella Swan had an Olympic gold medal and dreams of another before witnessing the brutal murder of both her parents.  Now living under a new identity as a high school student in tiny Forks, Washington, she must learn to cope with  the loss of both her family and her future.  When she meets the local math teacher and her older "foster-brother", Edward Cullen, things are complicated by an instant and unexpected attraction.

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A failed marriage and long divorce left Edward with a lot on his hands. Moving his kids closer to his family in New York was the fresh start he needed so that his family could thrive. Not knowing how he would juggle work and caring for his kids, he jumped at the chance to hire his brother's nanny to care for his own kids. But the moment Bella walked into his house everything changed. She started out as the nanny, but she quickly became everything he wanted.  

Bella's POV of this story is posted as Everything I Needed.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. But, what happens when life throws you a bad-boy biker, an uptight neighbor, and a couple of kids? You cross your fingers and hope for the best! AH-Rated 'M'.

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Bella moves back to Forks after an unexpected event with her daughter Leah, Leah has not spoken  word since the event. When Leah befriends a green eyed little boy next door, Bella so realises that his father may be the key to Leah's illness.

This story is about how the strength that family  love can create and how two families joining can overcome anything life throughs at them.

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Edward is the lead singer of Eclipse, the most popular band in the world for the last decade. He has always considered himself fulfilled and successful despite his solitary existence. He has never felt the desire for an emotional connection outside of the band and family until meets a much younger Bella during Eclipse’s European summer tour and begins to realize just how much has been missing from his life. Can their newfound relationship bliss survive the expectations and responsibilities of loving a rockstar? Can Bella survive the repercussions of her newfound and unsolicited fame? How do you protect the one you love when you are thousands of miles away? AH/OOC

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Strikhedonia (n.) The pleasure of being able to say "to hell with it".

The summer 1978 nine-year old Bella Swan and her family were driving on the English countryside when they picked up a pair of backpackers. Eleven years later Bella finds herself on a backpacking adventure of her own. Along the way Bella discovers the true meaning of adventure and discovers a new way home.

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Bella Swan is a humble young girl determined to prove she's serious about making art. Edward Cullen is the pragmatic debonair foreigner, focused on his career and duties. On the surface, Bella and Edward may have nothing in common, until a chance encounter in a hotel hallway sparks a mysterious attraction and a deep need to keep the connection alive. Will true love prove strong enough to overcome the secrets and challenges that lay ahead? Or will they succumb to the pressure and expectations of the people that think they know best? 

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Heartbroken when Tanya told him she cheated on him with his best friend after he proposed to her, Edward vowed to give up on love and women. Bella Swan, they shy freshman at the Univ of Wash, catches his eye.  He fights to stay away, but can he? Love can heal many wounds if you give it a chance.  Travel with Edward to see if he gives into temptation while dealing with his tainted past.

Rated NC-17 for language, dark themes, adult content and future lemons! Enjoy

Stephanie Meyers owns everything Twilight, but I own the plot! This is my first story I hope you all like it!!

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The first few chapters were reviewed by the Project Team Beta, Betas - thank you to them for their assistance.  But I am very proud and excited to have Woodlily and itsange helping me with revisions and future chapters.....THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!

The Cullen crime family has been a problem for the law officers of Chicago for over fifty years. After dozens of failed attempts to infiltrate the family, the FBI decides it's time to send in more undercover agents, Edwards and Whitlock. However, the Feds do not realize that Edwards has an agenda all of her own, which doesn't necessarily include putting a stop to the family's business.

Bella Swan hates Valentine's Day, and everything about it. Her past experiences in love have left her with a jaded view on relationships. After quitting college, she gets a job at a diner, where she makes friends and finds herself in a new job. What happens when the CEO gets under her skin, will she open up to what she really wants from him, or run off and hide?  all human/olderward - w/a smidge of daddykink. 

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When Bella Swan signed away her life to a man nineteen years her senior, she never once imagined that she would win his heart. Never once did she think that she would be the only woman that could truly say she won the heart of the billionaire, Edward Anthony Masen Cullen. She gave him everything she had, regardless of his lies, his callousness and his vindictiveness. She loved him for he was but more importantly she loved him for who he wasn't. Regardless of his imperfections and coldness, she broke down every wall. She showed him that even he could be loved.

Edward broke Bella's heart the night she came home, wanting to share the happiest news of their lives. She leaves but stays in the marriage for appearances sake. Bella has decided that she finally wants to move on.

What will Edward do when he realizes that Bella intends to end their marriage? Fight for her? Or let her go?

Edward wins more than he bargained for at what was supposed to be a friendly poker game. AH.

Bella is offered a scholarship to a boarding school in England in 1992. This is a journey that covers 20 years as Bella and Edward deal with betrayal, distance, and unexpected events.. 

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When Bella was three, she was found abandonned outside of a hospital in LA. She was placed with Carlisle, Esme, and their twin boys, Emmett and Jasper. What happens when they move to Forks? NC-17&AH Cannon pairing.

Bella and Edward Masen had their fresh start and are beginning a new chapter in their lives: raising triplets, one of which doesn't speak. Follow along with their families as they learn to deal with a child with special needs. However, a blast from the past lurks in the corner. Who and why are they choosing to come back into the Masen's lives? ExB, AH

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There are literal and figurative masks. Everybody wears them. Bella wore one the night her life changed for ever. What will she do when the truth comes out? And how will the man she was set to bring down fit into it?

Edward was 19.  Bella was 13.  They were next door neighbors.  Charlie was the chief of police.  Carlisle was a doctor at the local hospital. 

Edward’s little sister Alice was also 13 and Bella’s best friend. 

While home from college for the summer, Edward spent time with his little sister and her best friend so their parents could all go out for dinner.

Over the next several years, Edward and Bella became good friends, until the summer she turned 16 when she transformed before his eyes.

AH, ExB, Mostly EPOV, sort of coming-of-age, hopefully a little poignant, with a splash of angst until Bella's at least seventeen.  Mature for language, eventual lemons and a very spunky Bella.

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Their families hated each other.  They had competed with each other all through high school. But now they were stuck on a plane sitting next to each as they head home for the holidays. Merry Christmas everyone!

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Bella Swan loved, until that love was thrown away. She hoped, until it died inside of her. She cried, until the tears dried up, and in their place, darkness fell. She wasn't afraid of it, she embraced it, clung to it. It made her feel alive. Then she got even.

Edward Cullen is gifted Isabella Swan as a reward for a job well done.  The more time he spends with her, the more he becomes enamored of her.  Will he be able to make amends for his behavior and win the girl’s heart?

Bella slips from her husband in the middle of the night escaping the grasp of her abusive husband and father. Fearing she will never escape the long arms of the law, Isabella does everything in her power to get as far away as possible. With a little help along her way, Isabella finally finds the heaven and the life she always wanted.

Chance brought him to her home town and into her home. Awakening desires drew her to him, but made him run. Distance and time can't squelch the knowledge that is coming to light. Magnets drawn to each other, Edward and Isabella share a need for control—he needs to have it, and she wants to give up. Will they get want they want? How far will Isabella go to get under Masen's Command?

Edward Cullen, a hot-shot and hard-to-hire attorney, is looking for a nanny to watch his niece and nephew, from whom he just gained custody. If they are not driven crazy by the two little devils, they are trying to get in his ‘sexy pants’ and Edward is tired of it. Here comes Isabella Swan, his assistant’s sister, proclaimed tomboy and not able to keep a job for more than 24 hours. By some kind of circumstances, Edward comes to think she is a lesbian,therefore, in his eyes the perfect profile for a nanny. After all, she loves women, or does she?

After a betrayal leaves Edward reeling, he decides to change the course of his life. Starting over can be a daunting task. Will he let a certain brown eyed beauty help him find what he's looking for?

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Isabella Swan has never had an easy life; she's haunted day-in and day-out by the demons of her past.  Believing that she can never trust a man with her heart and definitely not her body after Charlie, her father, and only living relative is killed in the line of duty.  She decides to become a mother by In Vitro Fertilization... Dr. Edward Cullen is a pediatric specialist.  After suffering a tragic loss of his own, Dr. Cullen closed himself off to everyone in the world, including his 7 year old daughter.  Can an extraordinary twist of fate and a rambunctious 7 year old help bring two broken people, who've given up on love, together?

Will Isabella finally have a real family of her own?

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He is infamous. Everyone knows about the terrorizing murderer who leaves behind bloody scenes and corpses at night while the city sleeps. Bella, a journalist, investigates and finds her fear turning dangerously into love.

–Ruthless and Ivory
The full story to the Red Ribbon assassin. Finalist to Tattward and Inkella Contest

Written with Siobhan! He said I had no life before him. He said that he was my past present and future. I couldn't remember life before him so he must be right. He promised that he would never leave me, but one day that all changed.

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Just months away from inheriting a fortune and the family business, 17 year old orphan, Bella,  is out of control – a wild child with a platinum card and a killer bod.  Can Edward, as her legal guardian and CEO of Swan Publishing, rein her in and prevent her from ruining everything he’s worked for?  AH.  Rated M for a reason.

The black diamond slopes of Lake Tahoe are just what Bella needs to start living her life again after a painful breakup left a hole in her heart that work couldn't fill. Will a handsome and charming skier also prove that her heart is ready for love too?    

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This is a collection of outtakes from Hot Commodity. You've been forewarned: there will be lemons!

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Edward and Bella overcome death, destruction, drugs, cheating, and everything in between. But can they withstand the possibility of divorce? AH OOC ExB

Quiet Storm Sequel. 

How does the head of the world's most powerful crime family juggle being a father, husband, and boss? Surrounded by trouble, Edward tries to manage his organization while struggling to spend time with his children and wife, Bella.

Two years have passed since the epilogue; do Bella and Edward still have what it takes to Weather the Storm? OOC. AH. Mobward/Daddyward. 

Edward/Bella. 

Edward is a medschool drop-out come pharmacist who hates his life. Almost every moment of it.

The light of his coldmedicine aisle is Isabella Swan, a frequent customer and constant source of escapist sexual fantasies; he is desperate for the courage and impetus to make them reality.

A beautiful waitress with a voice like an Angel. A singing star on tour. Their lives merge in a sleepy little bar in Georgia.

He's a shy library clerk. She's an outspoken tattoo artist. They come from two different worlds, but they're both looking for the same thing. Can they survive the danger that is lurking nearby and have their happy ever after?

A fortunate encounter while wandering the city may lead Edward to realize that, perhaps, not everything is lost. But is he ready? AH, ExB.

Bella has her hands full being a single mom, her career, her son's deadbeat father and interfering parents. How will she cope when her high school crush reappears in her life?

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Bella decided to leave her college life when she was twenty one to tend to her family and matters she was forced to deal with head on.  Four years later, she goes back to finish her degree.  She is a very serious student and wants to focus on her degree adn the mystery she is hiding.

Once back in Boston, she meets a kind stranger at her work who seems interested in her.  Her lousy teacher's assistant is hot, but seems to be a bit conceited.  What roll will each of these men play in her life?

Secrest are dealt with in Boston head on and feelings are explored.  Follow Bella as she finishes her degree and tries to learn how to with  living a life once her secrets are reveled.

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"Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy?" -LKHamilton

He's a mystery - a beautiful, dangerous enigma. It should frighten her, but it doesn't. They say apathy and evil work together...maybe they are right. E/B.

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A troubling childhood has left Bella shy and scared of her own shadow. Her life is turned upside down when she is sent to live with the Dad and brother she never knew at the age of 15. Can Charlie and Emmett along with Edward and the gang help Bella? E/B, A/J Em/? *abuse is discussed*

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There is only one person on this earth that Edward Cullen hates, and that's his boss...Bella Swan. She's cold. She's ruthless and incapable of human emotion, and to Edward's greatest frustration, the hottest woman walking the face of the planet. Will a proposition made change the course of their lives forever? Will they break the rules, or will all terms and conditions apply?

Lemon? Yes please!

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After spending 7 years in prison, Edward gets a new start in the fishing village of Corea, Maine. Can a little girl and her mom, Bella, see beyond his past and can they all find love again...or will the ocean swallow them whole?

AH/AU, OOC Bella is a famous actress and Edward is a host of a late night talk show. What do they whisper to each other when they greet each other on stage?

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Bella needed to change it up. Moving to Savannah for a year after graduating from UGA seemed like a good plan. However, bills needed to be paid, and money was tight. Unfortunately, her playboy boss, Edward, doesn’t make her nights easy. After reconnecting with old friends, a pattern of miscommunication about engagements and one night stands, and a stalker dead set on keeping the pair apart, Bella and Edward find themselves thrown together in a whirlwind of events that will shape both of their lives in ways they never imagined. It's gonna get hot in the South!

Set in Savannah, Georgia. OOC, AU-AH. Canon couples. Lots of lemons...it's rated NC-17 for a reason.  Some violence, though not much.  The devil went down to Georgia...you wanna go? 

Set on the Yorkshire Moors in 1800's, Edward Cullen isolates himself from the lust and want filled thoughts of humans. He is disturbed by an injured traveler who stumbles across his mansion in search of respite. Upon reading his mind Edward is captivated by the man's beautiful daughter, Isabella. Edward will stop at nothing to make her his...whatever the cost.

When Bella Swan's typical teenage life is forever changed, she's forced to rely on a brother she barely knows and the makeshift family that surrounds him.  AH, OOC, ExB

"Darlin’, I have some bad news,” Wes began, and what he said next ripped my world apart.

I knew he was talking, trying to explain what happened, trying to lessen the blow. His lips were moving, but the pain was so loud I couldn’t hear him. My father was dead. Dad, the only family I really had, was gone, and I was…what?

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A night of Halloween trickery & secrets leads to some unexpected treats for Bella. Will this night of debauchery be a one time occurrence? Or will Bella & Edward risk the burn and attempt a relationship? Contains Mature Language and Situations, along with some violence.

I wasn't like the women in those movies.  You know, the ones you catch on the Lifetime network when you're channel surfing over a pint of ice cream at two in the morning?  Everything was perfect.  My grades were good, my college was paid for, and the future of my dreams was set.  Until it wasn't.

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'The liberties he assumes with my body should enrage me, anger me beyond my own sanity. But it's just not that simple.' Encounters born of need. Consequences neither saw coming. Guard your hearts. Not the ExB you're used to.