Kirjahaku

Life doesn't always start with once upon a time.Love doesn't always end with happily ever after. After spending five years with the love of my life, I did nothing to stop her from walking away. She had her reasons to leave. I had my reasons to stay. But a year later, the realization of loss hits me, and I'll stop at nothing to fix it. I leave everything behind to drive across the country to win her back, and I refuse to accept anything other than fulfilling old promises. But the only certainty in life is: nothing is as expected. The most valuable lessons don't often revolve around a fairytale ending-frequently, they come from hurt and healing. They come from the kind of personal growth love offers. The mending of your heart, your soul, and your life. And every once in a while, you find the greatest gifts in the packages you never expected to open.

One introverted girl.One extroverted guy.One assignment.One afternoon. Then everything changed..."You destroyed me." Novah wanted nothing more than to walk away, never see him again. She was determined to pick up the pieces of her tarnished reputation and move on. Her torture became her muse, earning her well-deserved notoriety for capturing beauty with her lens. She had come full circle. She had it all...until he returned. Nolan found himself surrounded by the grim facets of life, no longer the prominent boy from an affluent family who'd caught Novah's eye. The years had been unkind and left him in the dark, painful trenches of life. He needed her help. Fifteen years can equate to a lifetime of change, neither one the same person they once were. Despite the humiliation, the latent wounds, the missing years...they're destined to heal one another in unexpected ways. "You saved me."

How do you repair a broken heart? Sarah Campbell had always been the type of person who laughed the loudest, smiled the brightest, and the constant rock when anyone needed her. She had a good life full of friends and family, until everything came crashing down around her. Dealing with tragedy, Saturday nights became her only escape from the darkness and pain she felt inside. Not wanting anything more than to just give herself to someone-anyone-and let them take away the hurt. Until one Saturday night when Bentley Cole sat next to her at the bar. Bentley knew a thing or two about broken hearts. One look into Sarah's dull and desperate eyes, and he knew he would do anything he could to take her pain away. Changing his plans and throwing caution to the wind, Bentley made it his mission to help Sarah learn to live again, even if it meant losing himself in the process. Fate put them together.The rest would be up to their broken hearts.

Carter Hastings was only supposed to be a fling, A summer of fun, excitement, pleasure. And, it was... Everything. It's hard to walk away, to leave the one man who resuscitates me. But I did. He didn't reciprocate my feelings. He didn't love me.Not now.Not ever.

Haunted by a photographic memory, I couldn't escape the worst night of my life. The blood they shed.The pain they endured.The evil that still walked free. It was all I saw. Those memories, my childhood-the images. Silenced and scarred.But nothing lasts forever.Torment turned to blinding rage. Hate sought revenge, which pursued death. Then there was life.The moon.Rylee Anderson. I had to choose...

I fell in love with Holden York when I was six years old.Most of my youth came with spiral notebooks filled with doodles, wedding plans, and "Janelle York" looped in bubbly handwriting.However, one night in Vegas changed everything.I woke up to more than just a fantasy of my brother's best friend. Five years later, I'm standing on his doorstep confronting him about the secret he kept from me. If you think this is the story of how we rode off into the sunset together...You're so wrong.But if you think this is the story of how Holden blackmailed me into living with him...You couldn't be more right.

Ash Jenkins was the typical boy next door. Wait, who am I kidding? There was nothing typical about that boy.He was tall, ripped, and had the voice of a man twice his age. Intelligent, sexy as sin, and barely legal.Sent to live with his dad after getting in some trouble with the law, he was definitely someone I needed to stay away from.But he had his sights set on me, and he didn't try to hide it.Did it still make me a cougar if I was the prey?

"Save me and have me, fix me and I'm yours."What do you do when you catch your fianc grinding on another woman? Well, if you're me, you run off with a sexy, ink-covered tattoo artist who goes by the name Wrong. Then you marry him after a week. This isn't a story of love at first sight-love didn't come into play until after I had ruined it all. It's the reality of what is right and what is wrong when it comes to soulmates.

Item One: Divorced man seeks female roommate for companionship.Cash Nicholson isn't looking for a girlfriend, but he wants to come home to someone after a bad day at work.Item Two: Single mother needs apartment.Jade Robertson is desperate, and her best friend's couch just isn't going to cut it anymore.Item Three: No surprises.Romance.Work.Pasts.Agreements aren't promises...

If only we'd met at a different time, under different circumstances. A time when we could've jumped in his car and taken off without a care in the world other than what crappy motel we'd stop at next.But we didn't.No matter how fast he drove, we hadn't been able to outrun our pasts. And ever since our last night together, I dreamed about him. About Talon. The man with the dark, haunting eyes, the gravelly voice. The man I gave my heart to.Our love may have been rerouted...but it wasn't over.Fate gave us a second chance.