H M Shander

When all seems lost, do you give up forever or fight with all you have?After a car crash tore them apart, Nate makes a heart-breaking decision to walk away from his dream to win back Aurora's heart. When she learns of his intentions, she hatches a plan to stop his career-ending announcement. With only a few short weeks to get her shit together, Aurora must find the will to believe in herself and push beyond her comfort zones. Needing serious support, she reaches out to the only other person she trusts with her life-Nate's younger brother, Lucas.Through therapy and relapses, Aurora and Lucas become best friends. However, highly charged emotions bubble to the surface threatening both the friendship and everything she's battled in effort to save Nate.Will her plan work, or will it cause her to self-destruct?That Summer is the expanded portion of Duly Noted readers craved. A story of love and courage, and the blossoming of a beautiful friendship between two lost souls. It is a standalone novel, but it's highly recommended to read Duly Noted first.

On the cusp of adulthood, Aurora met tragedy and darkness in a horrifying car crash. Death snatched her mom and sister away, destroying her family in a heartbeat. In its wake, it left her alive, but barely living; her only means of surviving includes copious amounts of Percocet and Xanax. Terrified of stepping beyond her backyard, the broken-hearted and physically damaged nineteen-year-old doesn't need anyone, anyway. Until she meets him.Shy and smoking hot, Nate is hooked by Aurora's sarcastic wit and curious about her fear. A man on a mission, he wants to help her overcome the issues chaining her to a mediocre life. He needs to, if he's ever going to have her as part of his world - a passion he keeps hidden from her. If he succeeds with the impossible goal, he'll cure more than just her PTSD, he'll heal her heart.But when her fears collide with his passion, it drives Aurora away.Can she face her fears head on? Or is the damage irreparable?Duly Noted is a New Adult romance dealing with PTSD and drug addiction.