Jay Mclean

Two simple words hold the truth of our love: wait and hope. OliviaRhys Garrett-recent high school graduate, ex-captain of the basketball team, and my brother's rival both on and off the court.Oh, and he's also the guy I just hit with my truck.Awesome. To be fair, he had it coming.Why else was he dressed in all black, in the middle of the night, if not to hide out amongst the darkness? RhysI wasn't looking where I was going or what was around me. I didn't even see the headlights. Just felt the impact. And I thought, as strange as it was, that getting hit by a car may be the best thing that could've happened to me.Until I opened my eyes......and she told me her name.***Some might call it fate, destiny, kismet...A collision of souls.One night.One chance encounter.The problem?One night wasn't enough.But the more time we spent together, the more truths came to light.And soon, we'd discover that what we once thought was meant to be......is not made to last.

Some villains are made.Some villains are born. And some villains aren't villains at all. Nate DeLuca was born into a life he didn't want.Forced to walk a path that was already chosen for him. Grandson to a mob boss, he's forever torn between his duty, his honor, his legacy, and the truth. But the truth is never simple, and it's not at all what it seems. In a world full of secrets, heartache, and betrayals, Nate only has one thing on his mind: redemption. But with redemption comes destruction. And that destruction might cost him his heart.***Three Lives. Two Loves.One ticking time bomb...Tick tock.

We live in a world of darkness and shadows, where monsters hide and aim to ruin.And they did.They ruined us and turned our dreams into nightmares.But now we're back.And we're fighting.Not just for us, or for each other, but for our light

Please note that this is the second book in the series and should not be read prior to reading More Than This. "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."For every choice you make there are rewards, or there are consequences.It was my choice to walk away the first time. And my choice to chase her the second.But sometimes you don't get a choice, and all you get are the consequences. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."Unless that someone is Logan Matthews.Because loving him didn't give me the strength to walk away.It didn't give me the courage to fight for him.And when it was over, all it gave me was a broken heart.

As a kid, Logan Preston was a brat.Through his teens, he became the bad boy.Now, at nineteen, no one knows what the hell to expect.High school dropout, Logan Preston is a good-for-nothing stoner.A black sheep.A disappointment.The worst Preston Punk of the lot.At least that's how everyone in his small town makes him feel.But Logan Preston has secrets.Secrets so dark and so deep below the surface that the only way he can fight them is to stay high, high, high.He wears cockiness as a mask.Arrogance as his armor.Until one girl, one night, asks one life-changing question: What's beneath the bravado, Logan Preston

As a kid, Logan Preston was a brat.Through his teens, he became the bad boy.Now, at nineteen, no one knows what the hell to expect.High school dropout, Logan Preston is a good-for-nothing stoner.A black sheep.A disappointment.The worst Preston Punk of the lot.At least that's how everyone in his small town makes him feel.But Logan Preston has secrets.Secrets so dark and so deep below the surface that the only way he can fight them is to stay high, high, high.He wears cockiness as a mask.Arrogance as his armor.Until one girl, one night, asks one life-changing question: What's beneath the bravado, Logan Preston?

It's the same old story, really. Good versus evil. Heroes versus villains. Light versus dark. For two years, college freshman Noah Morgan lived his life somewhere in the middle, fighting darkness and light, always searching for answers to a single question: Why, Noah, why? The same three words keep him up at night, struggling for air while gripping a plastic cylinder containing white pills to match the white label with his name printed in ink as deep and dark as his memories-memories that turned him into a recluse. A shut-in. An introvert. Luckily for him, that's not how the girl next door sees him.

In a sprint, every millisecond counts.When you're waiting for love, those milliseconds can feel like eons.High school senior Lucas Preston has it all: star of the track team, a scholarship waiting for him, an apartment to himself and a revolving door of girlfriends.He also has an older sister, five younger brothers and a father who relies on him to make sure those brothers don't kill each other.His saving grace? Lois "Laney" Sanders, a girl he started to fall in like with when he was just eleven.A girl who became his best friend, his confidant, his courage.It took only sixteen clicks and eight seconds for Lucas to realize that his like for Laney had turned into love. Eight life-changing seconds.It's also the exact length of time it took to lose her.

One life-changing summer. One boy.The boy.The boy who offered me safe touches and heart-stopping smiles - smiles he shared with his son.We filled our days with porch-step kisses, filled our ears with laughter, filled our hearts with love. Deep, soul-aching, desperate love.But love is misleading.It's an invisible, fleeting moment.Somewhere between false adoration and pure hatred comes an emotion, a vulnerable need, a single desire.It lives within the ones who miss it, who crave it, who know better than to expect it.Love is relentless.Even when that love turns to hate, turns to loathing, turns to pain. Love should heal you. But it can also break you. Believe me, I know...Because I'm Becca Owens - a broken girl......And he's Josh Warden - the boy who broke me.

It's said that your life flashes before your eyes when you die.It must only happen to those whose lives are worthy.Clearly, Bailey's life is not. Unwanted from the day she was born, and then discarded, Bailey's only plan in life is to make it through to the next day. But one hopeless night, one wrong decision, and one pull of the trigger changes everything. Not just for her, but for Nate DeLuca too. Born into a world of crime, he had his entire life planned out for him. He wasn't supposed to find her that night.He wasn't meant to capture her, either.And he sure as hell wasn't meant to save her. Sometimes villains are born. And sometimes... heroes are made.

There's no emotion greater than fear.No ache greater than grief.No sound greater than silence.***I'm grateful he showed up on my doorstep, pissed off and angry at the world.If he hadn't, I wouldn't be here.And I don't just mean here on this journey with him.I mean here, in this world.*I wonder what events in all our lives-hers included-are The Turning Points?The points where we all determine that the fear of our pasts and the uncertainty of our futures are greater than our need for happiness.Here.Now.While time and everything around us stands unmoving... who's to say we can't have it all?***We wanted it all.We wanted it with each other.We thrived on the chaos we created.And ignored the Mayhem that ensued.Because falling in love was easy.But sometimes, love isn't enough.