"Performing was always my strong suit. I could act my way out of almost anything. But I could never act my way out of this." Bella Swan is a woman who's afraid of being vulnerable. On a summer visit to her godparents house she confronts her demons while noticing some of the skeletons in the family's closet. Home is where the heart is in this story. All canon characters. E/B

Bella has everything. Perfect husband, perfect kids, perfect life. Until one day, her world changes, and the perfection she thought she had is shattered. Will she be able to pull her life together and survive on her own? AU, AH, Rated M for eventual lemon

Sometimes, love can happen from consuming the gingerbread made by a hopeful maiden, but when the time is right, love can grow even without the help of gingerbread. However a little gingerbread never hurts, right?

Meet Edward Cullen, aka The Great Eight. He's the Captain of the Washington Capitals. He's one of the highest paid hockey players in the NHL but he's a little lonely. He fell in love once and thought she was the one. Until she broke his heart and walked away. Since then he's concentrated on getting his franchise a Stanley Cup.

Then Bella happens. She's quiet, intelligent, funny and beautiful. She knows nothing about hockey, and could care less that Edward is famous. She invites him into her apartment for a dinner, and eventually that blossoms into a relationship. She has goals of her own. International travel, keeping her family members safe, and excelling at her job as a research librarian.

She's independent and doesn't like to be controlled. He's a superstar who likes to spoil the women he falls in love with.

This story is rate R for adult themes and graphic language.

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Going on horrible dates was something that Bella always did well at. Nothing made her happier then to see the back of a man as he fled to get away from her. She was having so much fun until she ended up on a date with the most chauvinistic man in New York. How could one date have gone so wrong? Now her little tricks maybe the reason she is forced to stay with a man she loathes.    

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Set in an Alternate Universe, Bella and Beau are twins of the mind. They both move to Ithaca to go to college and start their lives together, even as they look for that third person who will fulfill their every need and desire. 

Depressed over thinking she’ll be fired before the holidays, Bella decides to get drunk at the company party. Woken the next morning by Rose texting her to look at Facebook posts from the night before, she realizes exactly how drunk she got—and it’s bad. She and Santa were very naughty, but the worst comes when Bella realizes exactly who was playing Santa. Suddenly, Bella’s last day takes on new meaning as she struggles to resist temptation.

As a teenager, Bella makes a promise to stay away from her best friend's brother. Will that promise still be kept when they meet again almost a decade later? Contest Entry in TwiFandomNews's Song Prompt Contest, inspired by the song Snow White by Dennis Lloyd.

Summary: Bella Swan has lived a very secluded life. After her father's death, she decides to make a change. With a map, dart, and life insurance money to fuel the trip, she is off on an adventure. On this trip with her, we will see things through her eyes, and maybe find a new friend or two as well. AH. No heavy drama planned, but may change as the characters grow and talk to me.

Prince Edward travels abroad to find adventure, experiences but more importantly himself. Agreeing to be father to Bella's baby is the only the beginning. He thought his biggest challenge would be to get the royal court to believe he is the biological father. It takes a baby to show Edward the man he truly is; the man he could be. In honor of my DS community.

She has spent her entire existence searching for the one who calls to her from within his mind. Pushing him into accepting her only sends them on a spiral into destruction. When the townspeople come for her, even her abilities are no match for the sunlight that sears her skin. Chained and weakened, with her execution looming, there is only one person who can save her.

After losing her best friend from a vampire attack, Bella had learned to fight them and dedicated her life on eradicating them. But what would happen if she falls in love with her sworn enemy? 

P.S. Twilight and its characters belong to Stephenie Meyer. This story belongs to me.    

One summer between high school and college changed Edward's ideas about his life's plans. Could he really build a life with a much older woman two thousand miles away? My entry for the TwiFandom News Forbidden Fruit Contest.

Edward leaves Forks and Bella behind after the incident with Tyler's van. Now, five years later, he finally returns to his family and the Pacific Northwest. While picking up his latest Swedish automobile, he is confronted by a very familiar scent. Will Edward be able to fight the pull his singer has on him a second time? Or will he stick around long enough to find out What Drives Her?

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~ What Drives Her has been nominated by you!! ~

-Nominated in the Sunflower Awards for "Best Vampire Story".

-Nominated for a Faithful Shipper Award for "Best Alternate Universe/Canon Story"!  (Update: TKegl got the well-deserved win for her story, "Beyond Time". I highly recommend reading it, if you haven't already!)

-Nominated for a Vampie for "Best AU Story" in the Newborn Round, Winter 2011.

-Nominated for a Shimmer Essence Award for "Best Dazzled Moment", in the 2010 Snowflake Quarter.

*If you know, or hear of, any other noms for this story, please feel free to send a DM my way as I'm not terribly active in the awards and contest circuit anymore.*

They’d all heard the rumors about Edward Cullen. Being with him had become a rite of passage and the ‘where’ decided your status for the rest of your High School Career. A very lucky few made it all the way to his bed, most girls only got as far as his couch. I didn’t even make it past the door. AH

An acrostic based on the words The Official Illustrated Guide

An acrostic poem about the words Life and Death

I was having a really bad day. Boys are persistent, and Edward Cullen is laughing at me. A little daydreaming never hurt anybody. AU BPOV

Isabella Black lost her husband in the cruelest way possible. He wasted

away and was ravaged by the evil, silent killer, cancer. Five months after his initial diagnosis, he died, leaving Bella with their two young children, John, seven and Grace, five. A year after his death, Bella packs up her home in Phoenix and drives back to Forks, Washington to be closer to her family. Will she finally find a way to pick up the pieces with the help of her family, friends and a green-eyed cop?

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Isabella Swan has her eyes on the prize. Unfortunately that means she has to steal from the most feared Mobster around, Edward Cullen. Isabella is about to find out just how possessive Edward is over his things. Mobward, Possessiveward, and a little bit of Domward. Lemons AH.

There's BIG changes in store for "Masen" and the Cullen's Big Top Circus. Will the Globe of Death rider have a good time as Triple B smashes her way into his heart?

Isabella Swan is the only daughter of Charlie Swan, the leader of the Swan Mafia Family. While out with her father, they are attacked by a rival family, The Wolf Pack and her father was critically injured. The family doctor was unavailable, and Bella is scrambling for a replacement. She called the person she’d least expect to help her.

Dr. Edward Cullen is working as an emergency room physician when he got a phone call from the girl he’d secretly loved all throughout college, but she kept him in the friend-zone, save for one drunken night. After that, she disappeared, and he hadn’t heard from her. Until this fateful night … And he found her much changed, hardened, scarred and angry.

Charlie Swan’s life hangs in the balance, and the only person who can save him is Bella’s former friend and one-time lover. Will Edward be able to save Charlie and stay away from the girl, who is now a woman and far more beautiful, despite the scarred and hardened exterior?

Edward has noticed some differences in Bella....

Isabella, desperate for a job after college agrees to move across the country to apply to be governess for two young children. She soon finds out that the Cullen Estate and the Master that resides within are dark and frightening. For the sake of her charges, she must attempt to find a way to reach the heart of the man who looks at her as no more than a servant. Read warning!    

Edward Cullen and Bella Swan have an instant attraction from the first night he walks into her pub. The mob boss and the enforcer's daughter have more in common than they know. Danger is the name of the game, but they must be willing to sacrifice their love for their safety. Will their secrets stay hidden, or will they spill along with their blood?    

Edward witnesses his father’s murder and is seen leaving. Bella is tired of being on the receiving end of her husbands’ fists and words. If they want to stay alive, they’ll have to run for their lives…no matter the cost. Inspired by the Three Days Grace song. M for Language and Adult Situations. 

Carlisle Cullen is ruthless Don of the Cullen Crime Family, but his wife Esme doesn't want this life for their son Edward.  Running away and starting a new life and new identity, will they have a happy, safe life or will Carlisle find them?  E&B HEA

Two months ago Bella disappeared without a trace.  A heartbroken Jasper plans to spend Christmas wallowing in his grief, but fate and Santa have different plans in store for him.

Princess isabella has been hidden away for her own safety since she was a child, but once she returns to the world she once knew, all bets are off. The fairytale ending is just the beginning of her tale.

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.

Isabella Swan is one of 8 children belonging to Millionare Charlie Swan and Brazilian super model, hotel heiress, and billionaire investor Renee Silva. Living in Rio, Brazil these kids are not accustom to the word no, they party, have sex, fight, and get what ever they want. When her and 3 of her sisters are sent over to live in America with their father, they find out that their father has been keeping a huge secret from them. The girls are told to accept it and deal with it... well they have a certain way of dealing with things, and it's not pretty. 

Warning: violence, blood, graphic sex scenes, under age sex, and lots and lots of cussing. 

Ps. These kids are super spoiled.

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The love for her sister knows no bounds. Will Edward be able to handle Bella’s love for her sister since she comes as a package deal?

In a world where magic has ceased to exist for hundreds of years, a sole male possesses an unknown power. It slumbers deep within him, churning and pleaded to come out.

But, he does not know what it is.

He's an everyday, ordinary man, with a mediocre job and tiny apartment and an obnoxious downstairs neighbor. Edward Cullen does not know what is in store for him when something inside him awakens and makes him the most powerful man in the world.

Goodbye, mediocrity ...

She is like him, ordinary, mediocre and stuck in a loveless marriage to a monster where she endures his anger and rage. But, within her soul, is another type of energy. It keeps her alive and pushes her forward, but she wishes it would just go away. Isabella Black just wants to end the nightmare of her life and start new.

Walking into a lawyer's office, she meets Edward Cullen and something between the two of them sparks. Not as a client and attorney.

Something deeper ...

 Could it be the magic within?

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A Scottish Christmas Tale. Four broken souls reunited at Christmas. Will they be able to overcome the ghosts of their past, future and present? - Reverse Harem -

While doing fifteen years for Drug and Gun trafficking a drug lord content with his existence gets a letter from a plain jain book worm not so content with hers. They start as pen pals while he does time, but when Fast Eddie Cullen is released on a technicality. He has two goals, return his empire to what it was, and have Bella by his side. A/H Cannon Lemons Language

She's lost her muse. He's missing inspiration. When Bella and Edward meet, will they be able to heal the tattered pieces of their hearts? Or will they forever be alone?

Edward Cullen is the heir-apparent to the most infamous crime families in Chicago. He was notorious for his time with his enemies, his many dates and his ruthless skill in the board room, the front for the illicit dealings of the Cullen Crime Consortium. However, to take over the family, his father reminded him about the stipulation that Edward needed to be married. Edward hated that stipulation, but he agreed to it and he had less than a year to make it a reality.

Isabella Swan is a struggling graduate student, working as a waitress in a local diner, The Swan Dive. On a chance meeting, Edward finds Bella to be enchanting and the perfect woman to marry. He makes an indecent proposal, suggesting marriage and paying for Bella’s tuition, and then some. Will Bella accept his proposal, with the possibility of having her dreams come true, but married to a sexy, enigmatic rich businessman? Or will she figure out the truth, that her future-husband is Married to the Mob?

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Bella is a twenty two year old mother of three and a widow. Her husband Emmett gunned down in a shootout with the DEA during an undercover raid. She vows to take her children away from the life, to let them grow up normal but then she meets the new Underboss Edward Cullen who falls for her and her children but refuses to play second to Emmet's ghost. Can she let go of her past?

He is the 'toast of Hollywood' and she is his queen, but their lives are not a fairytale. With children, real life and someone who is trying to break them apart, Edward and Bella will need to fight for their Happily Ever After.  From the red carpet, to the bedroom to the playroom, can their love survive? *HEA* OOC, AH, CANON COUPLES.

*WARNING: THIS STORY IS STRICTLY NC -17* FOR LANGUAGE AND EXPLICIT SCENES - BDSM.

Bella, an uptight, cold executive, is on her way home for Christmas. The first Christmas she’s been home since she started working for the Fortune 500 company that hired her from college, almost ten years ago. The only reason why she’s going home is to meet her brother’s new wife and her parents threatened to cut her out of the will if she didn’t make time to see her family. However, it’s snowing, a blizzard and Bella’s car wasn’t really designed for the cold. Or snow. Or anything other than sunny, perfect weather.

Edward Cullen is alone on Christmas Eve, working, as usual. His family was long gone and all he had left was his family business, Cullen Towing Service and Garage, though that wasn’t going well for him. Business was slow. His bills were piling up and he was afraid he was going to lose his livelihood if something didn’t turn around. Over the radio, he heard about a stranded driver, stuck on the back road. Edward pulled on his winter coat, gloves and started his truck, driving to the location.

A small sports car was stuck in a ditch, almost completely covered with snow. A beautiful woman, wearing heels and a fur coat was shivering outside her car. Edward immediately recognized her as the girl he once knew and had secretly crushed on for years. Her brother, Jasper, pretty told him to fuck off and said that she was too good for him, a grease-monkey, a blue-collar boy.

Can this uptown girl fall for a guy with grease on his hands?

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5 futuretakes from 5 of my complete stories, centered around Edward and his kids.

Edward and Isabella Cullen run MC Enterprises and the Cullen mafia, making them Seattle's most important power couple. But what will become of them all when she's sick of the business?

If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? I had to do it to save him.

Doctor Edward Cullen has never really enjoyed Christmas holidays.  His entire life is wrapped around his job and nothing else.  Walking out of hospital one snowy December night, he is drawn to the large decorated tree with tags with a number and gifts that are required.  What happens when he allows his heart to open back up and give this family a Christmas to remember?  Or will he get a surprise gift that will tear down all the walls around his heart?

When you're the son of an ex-boyband member, certain benefits come with the title: A privileged upbringing, money, fame... Some are wanted, some cause more trouble, especially when people wants to be with you to become famous by association. What if you find the one person who wants you for being you? What if, unknowingly, she has more in common with you that you know about?

 Bella is a good, Christian girl with a dark secret. She wants the pierced, tattooed, and foul-mouthed tattoo artist who lives across the hall from her. Will she ever get him to notice her without compromising her beliefs?

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It's late October. It's time for Eddie 'The Vampire' to own the airwaves at night like he has done for the last forty-three years with 'The Hairy Claw'. Rosalie is a new hire to the radio show who is set to find the truth about Eddie. What will she find?

Single mother and baker Bella, literally runs into Edward the new town doctor. Is love at first sight real, or is that only in fairy tales?

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Rosalie runs away from her family after she finds out the truth about her kidnapping. Now with a 4-year-old daughter and her godfather's family, she will need their help when she finds a badly hurt, unconscious Emmett in her backyard and finds out he is in the mob.

Emmett, next in line to take over as the head of the family, is betrayed by his second team. When he wakes up and remembers what happened to him, he wouldn't have thought that the angel that saved him and her daughter would be the ones to help in finding out who put a hit on him.

With enemies coming from all directions, will they help each other or will they crumble under the onslaught of trouble coming their way?