Lindy Zart

"Team building takes on a whole new meaning--when work is the last thing on your mind . . . The Illinois wilderness should be a relaxing change of pace for advertising superstar Ben Stitzer. But he has one goal during this company retreat: proving to his boss how far he'll go to succeed. Even if it means having to team up with the uber competitive, exasperatingly attractive, woman who has tried to undermine him at every turn . . . Being in the great outdoors is Avery Scottam's biggest nightmare. And hard as she tries, she can't even hide her fear from Ben. When one of her especially huge freak-outs gets them lost, they'll have to rely on each other to survive wild animals, sketchy campers, and their mutual distrust. Yet somewhere between a malevolent crow and a surprising confession, they just might end up something more than friends . . . Will returning to civilization make them forget how truly wild they can be together? "

If you can make it out of Enid High School alive, you can make it through anything. Alexis is the new girl at school, and she's ruthlessly bullied. Hopeless, and drowning in her present reality, she takes pills-lots of pills. She's sent to a mental health facility, where she meets a boy. Only the boy can't save her, and no one can save her from herself. Nick has secrets. He wants to open up to Alexis, but there's the dead boy who haunts him. In his dreams. While he's awake. He wants to be brave, but he can't tell her about his past, and he can't leave the facility. Melanie rules over the school, until a nobody named Lexie tries to disrupt her reign. She won't allow that. She also can't stop it. She plummets into notoriety, but she's determined to take them all with her. The girl, the boy, and their secrets.

On the day Taryn Smith turns eighteen, her life changes-and not just because she can now legally vote. A black-eyed man with a chilly aura accosts her, and a stilted breath later, she's abducted by a man who claims he's a Manang; a half-man, half-angel being who lives in a world called Urian. Side note: he may or may not be insane. Sent to a mansion in the middle of a grassy field surrounded by forest, and partnered with a black-haired, blue-eyed man with a surly nature who makes her heart spin, Taryn trains. For what, she doesn't know. She's told she's someone special; a Charmed, and the key to winning in a battle of worlds about to collide. Only problem is, she can be a weapon of good, or a weapon of bad.

Hired by a stranger to write his life story, Beth Lambert arrives at a seemingly abandoned house in the hills near her hometown. She knows the rumors, she knows it is dangerous and unwise. But she needs the money. And she needs to prove that it isn't a mistake to think she can make a career out of a dream. Inside the house of emptiness and coldness, she finds a man with curt words and haunted eyes. He is eccentric, odd. Brutish, even. He scares her, and he intrigues her. When she learns who he is, she wants to run. But there is the money, and there is the dream, and eventually, there is simply Harrison Caldwell. The haunted man with the black, ugly truth.

You won't like me.I am not the nice girl.I am not your friend.I don't care about you, but most of all, I don't care about me.Go ahead, hate me.We all have secrets.I have them as well-dark, terrible secrets.The only time I can breathe is when I forget.I need to be numb.You don't want to know how.But as long as I can breathe, the past cannot smother me.

You breathe in, you breathe out, and everything you know is gone. Sara Walker knows firsthand what it feels like to have your reality ripped away, scrambled, and shoved back at you in an undone puzzle where pieces are missing and nothing fits. She's lost so much and is struggling to live and to find the strength to forgive herself for being human. With the help of Lincoln, her husband's brother, Sara realizes it's not about finding who she used to be, but about accepting who she is now. You breathe in, you breathe out, and everything you know isn't gone, but reborn.

A typical day for Bianca Fisher involves wigs, handcuffs, and sexy dress-up attire-and that's just her day job as a private investigator hired to uncover cheating spouses. Add in her cat Cookie and Bloody Marys, and it becomes a perfect day. Until she meets Drew. Nothing is normal after that.Drew Montgomery relocated to Midwest USA to get away from his past and have a peaceful, unadventurous existence. Then Bianca shows up at his bar, mistakes a dummy for a real person, and somehow insults and captivates Drew at the same time. He tells himself to stay clear of her and her jaded view of men, but his feet won't listen, and neither does his heart.

Graham Malone is my roommate, my personal eye candy, the reason I get up in the morning smiling (that could be from the illicit dreams I have about him too, I suppose. Let's move on.). He's also beautiful to look at, but his heart is where his true beauty lies. Take away the exterior and the interior still shines. I love him. I mean, I'm pretty sure I do, having never been in love before. Anyway, it seems legit. And now his brother Blake is here, and, well, he's the complete opposite of Graham. Sarcastic, brooding, and totally available. But he's leaving soon, and Graham's the one I want. I shouldn't have to remind myself of this, right? I wouldn't have to if Blake would quit looking at me like I'm something yummy and he's starving.Here's a toast to roomies; the ones you should never fall in love with. Or something.

Grayson Lee is back. Lily Jacobs learned doing the right thing isn't always best. Every day she lives the consequences of her greatest sacrifice. Years have gone by since Grayson left; enough time has passed for their young love to fade. Only it hasn't, not for Lily. She loves him still. She loves him enough not to let him go this time.

There are three absolute truths in Grayson Lee's life: 1. His existence was a mistake. 2. No one is good enough for his best friend, Lily Jacobs, especially not him. 3. He loves her anyway.

This is Lola's story. She has a secret no one can know. Once a safe haven, her home has turned into a prison, and she fears if she doesn't somehow escape, she will lose herself completely. She finds her escape in Jack; a troubled young man with a cynical smile and eyes that see all Lola tries to hide. But even Jack can't save her from what awaits her at home.