J. P. Grider

Haven: A diligent hand carved this hole in my face. It stole my confidence, my identity, and ended my short-lived career as a broadcast journalist. I am now unemployed. Alone. Ugly. And expected to get over it and move on. Go on living life as usual--as if the world doesn't judge the grotesquely unattractive. Quest: It's been three years since I was kicked out of the Army for nearly killing the opposition's militia commander with my bare hands. I am now unemployed. Alone. Angry. And expected to forget the nightmares that hold me hostage and move on. Go on living life as usual--as if the world doesn't judge a dishonorably discharged ex-soldier. You'll love this reverse Beauty and the Beast tale, because isn't it about time the pretty boy falls in love with the ugly girl? Get it now...

Haven: A diligent hand carved this hole in my face. It stole my confidence, my identity, and ended my short-lived career as a broadcast journalist. I am now unemployed. Alone. Ugly. And expected to get over it and move on. Go on living life as usual--as if the world doesn't judge the grotesquely unattractive. Quest: It's been three years since I was kicked out of the Army for nearly killing the opposition's militia commander with my bare hands. I am now unemployed. Alone. Angry. And expected to forget the nightmares that hold me hostage and move on. Go on living life as usual--as if the world doesn't judge a dishonorably discharged ex-soldier. You'll love this reverse Beauty and the Beast tale, because isn't it about time the pretty boy falls in love with the ugly girl? Get it now...

Life for rocker Tagg Holland isn't a bed of roses, but things look up when his mother hires him a personal trainer. One fatal night changes rock-idol, Tagg Holland's life forever...until his Oscar-winning mother hires him a personal trainer...in the form of a cute little brunette. When Mara Giordano comes knocking on his door, Tagg Holland sees a light at the end of his decade-long tunnel of despair. Suddenly, the call to fall in love and to reemerge as the Nation's most beloved rocker, urges him to put the wheels in motion and try romance as well as head back to the stage. With his mother's support and a new relationship budding, Tagg believes he will finally overcome his tragedy and grow from it...until another near-fatal accident threatens Tagg's resolve and sends him plummeting once again. With his emotional stability teetering on the edge of another breakdown, Tagg Holland may not have the strength to overcome a second casualty. Will the love he'd found in the last few months be strong enough to see him through?

Praise for Love Me Anyway ...it embraces teen angst and drama with gusto - Vox Libris TOP 1000 REVIEWER...The ending is beautiful and will bring you to tears. - Ashley Bane...If John Hughes directed a movie based on a Judy Bloom book... - A. Lynn Powers When your heart can't speak the words, a mix-tape can. Tia Mercury is a freshman in high school and has her first serious crush...on a senior who won't touch her. At least not until she turns eighteen. Clinton Daniels is not your everyday teenage boy, and because his tougher-than-nails father won't let him forget it, Clinton becomes a loner. And learns to distrust everyone. Until he meets Tia. She's sweet, she's funny, and she knows nothing about good music. It's the nineteen-eighties for goodness sake...time to turn off that AM radio crap. So, while Tia drools over Clinton, he's busy making her mix-tapes. She's falling in love. He's ignoring his heart. See, Clinton has a secret. But sharing it could cost him their friendship, and he's not willing to risk losing the only person he's ever loved. Love Me Anyway is a serious story that spans a decade. A young adult, coming of age tale about unconditional love and what two people are willing to look past to prove that love. A mix between Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park and Becky Albertalli's Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Love Me Anyway will capture your heart and captivate your soul.(This book was originally published as NAKED AND FAR FROM HOME. If you've already read NAKED, then do not purchase this again. The only change is the title. Thank you)

Tia Mercury was a freshman in high school and had her first serious crush - on a senior who wouldn't touch her. At least not until she turned eighteen.Clinton Daniels was not your everyday teenage boy, and because his tougher-than-nails father wouldn't let him forget it, Clinton became a loner. And learned to distrust everyone.Until he met Tia. She was sweet, she was funny, and she knew nothing about good music. It was the nineteen-eighties for goodness sake - time to turn off that AM radio crap.So, while Tia drooled over Clinton, he was busy making her mix-tapes. She was falling in love. He was ignoring his heart.See, Clinton had a secret. But sharing it could cost him their friendship, and he was not willing to risk losing the only person he ever loved.Love Me Anyway is a serious story that spans a decade. A tale about unconditional love and what two people are willing to look past to prove that love.

Praise for Sacrifices: Fall in love with Ethan, Storm and Honor. - Secretly Adorkable Readers Such a fast moving, non-stop heart pounding story of a girl who can save people from pain but then suffers the consequences of her actions. - imsimplydebbie Top Notch Teenage Fantasy Fiction - Alice M. Marks What would you sacrifice for the one you love? Sacrifice - the act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy. We all make sacrifices. It's a part of life. But when someone decides another's life is more important than their own, then we're talking about sacrifices impossible to make. Yet they are made nonetheless. It is in our blood and in our nature-to heal, to save, to bring life back from the dead. But for some of us, it isn't worth the pain we endure, and instead of sacrificing our suffering for theirs, we run. But when a two-hundred-year-old vengeance, and a government determined to use us as test subjects, finally catch up, we find ourselves out of time with no place left to go. And I am left lying in a hospital bed waiting for a new heart, leaving Ethan and Storm to figure out a plan to save us from our fates. But first, we have to get Ethan and Storm to agree on a plan. And then, we have to get them to stop loving me. Because if they don't...one of them will make the ultimate sacrifice, and I'd rather die than allow that to happen. My name is Honor Stevens. And I am an empath. Thrust into her new world of healing, will Honor embrace her new gift...or die trying? A young adult supernatural romance you can feel deep into your bones. (THIS IS A REWORKED, REVAMPED, REWRITTEN MAKEOVER OF THE HONOR TRILOGY, WHICH INCLUDED A TOUCH OF HONOR, A MAN OF HONOR, AND A HEART OF HONOR)

Sacrifice - the act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy. We all make sacrifices. It's a part of life. But when someone decides another's life is more important than their own, then we're talking about sacrifices impossible to make. Yet they are made nonetheless. It is in our blood and in our nature--to heal, to save, to bring life back from the dead. But for some of us, it isn't worth the pain we endure, and instead of sacrificing our suffering for theirs, we run. But when a two-hundred-year-old vengeance, and a government determined to use us as test subjects, finally catch up, we find ourselves out of time with no place left to go. And I am left lying in a hospital bed waiting for a new heart, leaving Ethan and Storm to figure out a plan to save us from our fates. But first, we have to get Ethan and Storm to agree on a plan. And then, we have to get them to stop loving me. Because if they don't...one of them will make the ultimate sacrifice, and I'd rather die than allow that to happen. My name is Honor Stevens. And I am an empath.

Cali Parker is poor. She has a lot on her plate - her father is dying, she's working to help pay the rent, and she's two-years behind in college. Griffin Brooks is rich. He has not a care in the world - he's acing his engineering courses, his hobby is restoring his fifty-thousand dollar classic car, and he has a different girl on his arm every week. When Cali sees Griffin on her first day of class, she's immediately smitten and thinks she's found the perfect guy. When Griffin sees Cali at the bank, he immediately forgets the blonde he was with that morning. Then they meet, and their worlds collide. Cali doesn't belong in Griffin's world, and he doesn't understand hers. But just when Griffin convinces Cali that their two different worlds can blend, a secret is revealed that tears them apart. Is their love strong enough to bring them back together, or will their worlds drift further apart? Get in now and find out...

Honor hurts...all the time. The doctors say she's fine - it's all in her head. But Honor feels pain. What she doesn't know is...it's not her pain- it's everyone else's. Seventeen year-old Honor Stevens is not an ordinary teenager. She can feel other people's pain. What she doesn't know is what Ethan Sutherland comes to town to tell her - she can save these people. But at what cost? For every life Honor saves, she knocks years off her own. When Ethan comes looking for her, he isn't counting on falling in love. Now that he has, he wishes he hadn't told her about her abilities. Though he tries his best to talk her out of saving every soul, Ethan loses the battle - Honor's too nice for her own good. Then there's the matter of Ethan's estranged, morally corrupt half-brother, Storm - he loves Honor too. And because Honor is intrinsically empathic, she's aware of Storm's softer side and begins falling for him as well. Who will Honor choose?