"When you love something you must savor it through every stage from it's beautiful disaster to it's wonderful bliss." Elle Henry This book is a reflection of my love of writing through two of my favorite forms: poetry and short story. I selected the poems that truly captured the very best of me.

Sixteen-year-old Ansley Stevenson is trying to understand teenage love and all the emotional trappings it brings. Victim of a kidnapping as a child she suffers from social anxiety along with a panic disorder. People scare her into a panic; her goal is to live a normal life outside of therapy and medication. She has never been the girl boy's notice or find attractive as most people view her as a freak due to her past. This changes the moment she locks eyes with Simon Collins, the cousin of her best friend, Maxwell. He turns her world inside out by giving her the courage to stand on her own two...