Even before the second semester of his sophomore year at Columbia began, Trey Holland knew his life would be completely different by the end of it. He had yet to meet the pretty–yet flustered–freshman who he’d be mentoring on the school paper. He had yet to discover the despicable secrets his new best friend was hiding. All Trey knew at the time was that the relationship with his high school sweetheart was nearing its end. In those days before the spring semester began, life for Trey was simple. School was a place to learn. His fraternity was a community of like-minded brothers. Life was full of well-intentioned people. Complications were tiny bumps in the road, easily smoothed over, leaving no trace behind. In a matter of weeks, Trey is thrust into a jaded reality brought on by choices he makes and by the vile actions of those around him. It won’t take long for him to look back and see the wreckage left in the wake of wanting. AUTHOR'S NOTE: Portions of this book deal with the sensitive subject of rape and sexual abuse. While the incidents are not 'experienced' first hand, they are retold in hindsight by characters. The descriptions of the events are brief, and while they are not graphic, they may be considered disturbing to some. Views: 48
Erotica/Mystery/Crime. 51251 words long. Views: 48
HimJames had
plans for his life. Those plans were derailed by the surprise arrival
of his daughter. His life revolved around her. Then she arrived with
her beautiful brown hair that was made to wrap around his wrist, and a
butt that was to die for in a tight pair of jeans. Nevertheless, he
didn't need any more drama in his life. His ex-girlfriend was stirring
enough of that up for ten women. Yet, there was something about her
that soothed his soul.HerShiloh’s made it her life’s
mission to protect the innocent children she can from the big, bad,
scary things that lurk in the darkness. She has an inane curiosity for
life and craves knowledge. Which is why when she starts poking around
in her father’s business, she inadvertently starts something in to
motion that threatens her very existence. Her father, the one man that
was always supposed to be there for her, drops her off with a brother
she never knew she had and leaves. Making her question the father she
obviously never really knew at all. Then she meets him, and she doesn't
think her life’s so bad after all. The sexy biker turned SWAT officer
sets her nerve cells to igniting, and she relishes in every single
second of it.HimHe knew life could change in an instant. One soul crushing instant.When
he’s presented with the aspect of losing Shiloh before he’s ever even
had her, he decides it’s time to grab life by the handlebars and ride it
like he stole it. Then that threat not only touches his woman, but his
daughter. And there’s no power on God’s green earth that can protect
them from a father’s wrath. Views: 48
New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer brings readers back to the range with a reader-favorite tale of love, family and cattlemen!Blake Donavan has one nemesis--love. He's spent so many years building a wall between himself and the outside world that he doubts anyone could ever thaw the ice around his heart. But he gets the surprise of a lifetime when a little girl with his green eyes shows up on his doorstep. He's a daddy! What's a rancher to do?Little Sarah is accompanied home by Meredith Calhoun, who isn't so eager to see Blake. Although she was once a thorn in Blake's side, Meredith is now a stunningly beautiful woman. She's spent time away from home and matured, becoming a successful author. But can she melt Blake's hardened heart to create a forever family with the man of her dreams and his newfound daughter? Views: 48
It's summertime in Cottonbloom, where two lovers find themselves at a crossroads just as things start to heat up. . . Sutton Lovell grew up on the wealthy Mississippi side of Cottonbloom—and now, as mayor, she's determined to save it from the fate of so many small towns. Part of her plan to help the local economy is the Labor Day tomato festival. If only she wasn't being undermined by Sawyer Fournette, who's planning a crayfish-themed celebration on the Louisiana side of the river on the very same weekend. The pranks and sabotage are getting out of hand, and she's had it with him—no matter how much she enjoyed those stolen hours in his truck bed, so many years ago... Sawyer knows that Sutton's never forgiven him for breaking her heart—but despite his reputation as a low-class swamp rat, he'd never hurt the woman who still secretly drives him crazy with desire. Someone in Cottonbloom has it out for her, though, and Sawyer intends to watch... Views: 48
Since his beloved wife's death, Sir Robert Royden finds it unbearable to stay at home in his ancestral Manor House and instead spends his nights drinking and gambling away the family fortune in the low spots of London, leaving his beautiful young daughter Crisa to her own devices and her adored horses.One day, after a long absence, he brings to their home an American millionaire, who wants Crisa's hand in marriage in return for a large sum of money that will keep her, the family estate and her father in comfort in perpetuity. And so poor Crisa is virtually forced into marrying him and then finds herself in a 'golden cage', trapped at the huge and ugly New York mansion of the aged Silas P. Vanderhault. When her husband dies suddenly after a stroke on the Liner to New York, she is besieged by his grasping family, who have been cut out of his will as he has left everything to Crisa.She carefully prepares her plan and then manages to make her escape from them by using a false name... Views: 48
For twenty-one year-old Gemma, life has never been normal. She knows nothing about her past and has been haunted by the same monsters in her nightmares for the last few months. Unemotional to life, she feels disconnected from everyone. Until the very first day she cries. **Mature Content Warning** 17+ for language and sexual content. (A re-imagining of The Fallen Star at a New Adult Paranormal) Views: 48
The novel portrays, with dry humour, delicate irony and a touch of nostalgia, the lives and feelings of young people in the late 1950s. "Erhard von Büren pours out memories of love affairs, of family life, of student experiences or incidents from his readings... His style is spiced with waywardness and wit." – Award of the Canton Solothurn Prize for Literature. In A Long Blue Monday, the narrator, who is temporarily away from home working on a book about Sherwood Anderson, remembers his unrequited love affair with Claudia, whom he met at college during rehearsals for a play. How could he, the village lad, the son of a working-class family, aspire to gain the affection of Claudia, a sophisticated town girl, who lives with her wealthy family in a spacious house by the river? Worlds seem to separate the two. But he is convinced that where there's a will there's a way. As a young boy, he had tried, by being a model pupil and a model son, to... Views: 48
"Welcome to midnight, my fellow Niteowls...†?No one would ever suspect that responsible, ugly-sweater-wearing Ingrid North is the incognito radio deejay known only as Niteowl. Finally a high school grad, she can't wait to get out of her tiny hometown of Steadfast, Nebraska (population three hundred and forty-seven) to chase her dreams. Thankfully, her three best friends-Billie, LD, and Micah (who she is definitely, absolutely, not in love with)-are more concerned with spending one last epic summer together than finding out where Ingrid slinks off to every weekend. But for that one glorious hour every Saturday night, Iggy shucks her own skin to become Niteowl-a infamous and daring deejay with the answers to everyone's love life but her own. There is one caller in particular-Dark and Brooding-whose raspy laugh and snarky humor is just sexy enough to take her mind off the fact that Micah is rapidly falling for a Mean-Girls-worthy nightmare. But when Ingrid... Views: 48
A heart-wrenching novel about best friends on a collision course with the real world from Amy Zhang, the critically acclaimed Indies Introduce and Indie Next author of Falling into Place.Janie and Micah, Micah and Janie. That's how it's been ever since elementary school, when Janie Vivien moved next door. Janie says Micah is everything she is not. Where Micah is shy, Janie is outgoing. Where Micah loves music, Janie loves art. It's the perfect friendship—as long as no one finds out about it. But then Janie goes missing and everything Micah thought he knew about his best friend is colored with doubt.Using a nonlinear writing style and dual narrators, Amy Zhang masterfully reveals the circumstances surrounding Janie's disappearance in an astonishing second novel that will appeal to fans of Lauren Oliver and Jay Asher. Views: 48
And they lived happily ever after … That’s where the typical romance ends. For Bo and Ember Cavanaugh, however, the “I do’s” are just the beginning. On the heels of a wildly successful tour with The Six, Bo and Ember are offered the musical opportunity of a lifetime. A bi-costal move back to the Cavanaugh Estate holds promises, old friends, and feelings they thought were long since buried. In the middle of the whirlwind that is their professional life, Bo and Ember try to establish a solid and loving home. Life, though, doesn’t stay in the promises of “happily ever after.” In the final installment of the November Blue series, excitement, temptation, loss, and the struggle over what love means forces the couple to strip it all away and focus on what it means to be soul mates, what it means to be married, and what it means to be … Bo & Ember** Views: 48
