I know it seems like I’ve got the world at my feet, but don’t always believe what you see. Yes, I’ve won a scholarship to Australia to study koalas, and yes, the hottest stranger I’ve ever met kisses me almost the second I arrive. And sure, that stranger just happens to be in the dorm room down the hall from me and every time he looks at me I know exactly what he’s thinking and it sends an excited thrill through me. But Raphael doesn’t know what I know: that my future is pretty much written and romance isn’t a part of it, no matter how much I wish it was.
Lilah Stone has never followed football. She grew up in one of the country’s biggest college football towns, but she’s a painter. She doesn’t go all weak-kneed for some jock. Especially not after the sex scandal that tore apart the team and destroyed her world. So when she takes a summer adjunct job at Mountain State University, the last guy she wants to see in class is an arrogant, cocky football player. Then Riley Brulotte walks in. He’s everything she’s sworn to hate … and sexy as hell. He’s all wrong for Lilah. So why does he feel so right?
Corabelle doesn’t feel like any of the other college girls. On what should have been one of the happiest nights of her life, she and her boyfriend Gavin watched a nurse disconnect the ventilator from their seven-day-old baby. During the funeral two days later, Gavin walked out and never returned. Since then, her life has been a spiral of disasters. When Gavin shows up in her astronomy class four years later, he is hell-bent on getting her back, insisting she forgive him. Corabelle knows she can’t resist the touch that fills the empty ache that has haunted her since he left. But if he learns what she has done, if he follows the trail back through her past, her secrets will destroy their love completely.
Friends don’t let friends have boring birthdays. And Isabela’s friends have gone above and beyond this year. While she’s been focusing on her career and refusing every distraction, her besties planned an epic surprise. Now Isabella finds herself staring at the birthday present she never counted on. The one her well-meaning friends bought her at a charity auction. It’s a present she knows will only cause problems, but who can resist tall, dark and handsome?
A lifelong friendship that became a rivalry. Three gorgeous specters of my past, hellbent on winning me back. Who knew coming home could be so deliciously complicated?
When the funeral of a childhood friend brings Kayla back to North Glade, she’s forced to face the very reasons she left. And when three sizzling exes reveal they still harbor feelings for her? The men come up with a very unique way of determining who gets their shot.
There’s Warren… her first in every way. Whiskey brown eyes. A lady-killing smile and a roguishly handsome face, set upon shoulders to die for.
Then there’s Luke, tall, blonde and perfect. Warren’s best friend… at least up until he and Kayla shared that smoldering hot summer together, just after their breakup.
Finally there’s Adrian, the brooding tattooed god. Thick black hair with mountains of muscle; a friend with benefits so raw and savage Kayla could never hope to resist – nor would she ever want to.
Choosing between them becomes an impossibility… until a very unorthodox solution presents itself. One that leaves Kayla breathless and filled with butterflies, while fulfilling every last one of her far-flung fantasies.
But North Glade still harbors its own share of mysteries, as outside forces begin aligning against their tight-knit little group. Will Kayla stay long enough for one of her suitors to win her heart? Or will a more unconventional arrangement present itself… one where she gets to eat her cake and have it too?
My entire life is a lie, propelled by one wrong decision that altered my fate.
If fans knew the truth, they’d run away screaming. But all they see is Ryder Stone, moody guitarist and lead singer of Torment, and a potential notch on their bedpost.
Only two people know who I really am. My manager has a vested interest in keeping my secret, and the girl I was forced to leave behind doesn’t even know the true extent of my shame.
Losing Zeta is both my biggest regret and my proudest moment. But she was the glue keeping me together, and I’m struggling to survive without her. Especially when demons from my past continue to haunt me and the threat of disclosure is ever present.
When she reappears in my life, this time, I’m too weak to push her away.
Her love has the power to save me.
Mine has the power to destroy her.
Rainier lives a charmed life. She has a good husband, three wonderful children, a house overlooking Puget Sound and a teaching position at the University of Washington. However, many days she feels lost and alone. She longs to learn how to feel alive again without thinking about how to live. Like she did before her adoptive parents passed away and her husband became another fixture around the house.
In her search for happiness she replays the reels of her past trying to discover what made her once blissfully content. Her strongest memories always bring her back to college at the University of California, Berkeley. Topping her list of events is the day the Western Tiger Swallowtail successfully flew through the snow flurries. By her side were her boyfriend Josh, and Eric, their good friend. They witnessed the unheard of sighting together. Could something so beautiful have torn them apart?
Rainier is deeply moved that day for several reasons, but she never imagined the impact it would have on all three of their stories.
Wayne and Nancy grow up on opposite sides of the country, each certain they must have love richer than what others will settle for. Something stronger, something higher, something worth searching for.
During the turbulent nineteen-sixties, they meet while he is attending blue-collar Drexel, and she is at neighboring, Ivy League Penn. Although irresistibly drawn to each other, they must overcome obstacles posed by the class and social differences separating them, as well as opposition from both families, and later, a twist of fate that will be the cruelest test of all.
Can they reach the emotional altitude they seek? Can they overcome time’s downward pulling inertia?