Melissa Toppen

Alec Murray. He was the one. From the first moment I saw him, I knew. I had never been more certain of anything in my sixteen years on this earth. But Alec didn't notice me. At least not in the way that I wanted him to. He noticed my best friend instead. I stood by and watched their relationship blossom. An outsider looking in, wishing things were different. Torn between my loyalty to my best friend and the boy who had unknowingly stolen my heart. Weighted by feelings I could never express out loud, I wrote them all down. Every thought. Every feeling. I poured them all into a letter. A letter he was never meant to read. Only that's exactly what he did. He read it. Every single word. But by then it was too late. Even if he was no longer dating my best friend. Even if I was more in love with him than ever. He was leaving. I was leaving. And there was nothing either of us could do to change it. Alec Murray was my almost fairytale. The happy ending I swore I'd never get. But our story is far from over...

I used to believe in fairy tales. But then I grew up and I realized that life isn't like the books I once loved so much. There are no princes riding in on their white horses. No magic wands or fairy god mothers. And no happily ever afters. Ryland Thorpe taught me the hard way that good doesn't always win and sometimes the people we trust the most are the ones that can hurt us the deepest. At fifteen, my world began and ended with him. He was my older brother's best friend. He was my protector. He was the boy I had loved since I was old enough to understand what loving someone meant. And he was a liar... It's been five years since I've seen him. Five long years and the memory of him still haunts me like it was yesterday. Only he's not just a memory anymore. Prison has hardened him, changed him, altered him in ways I never expected. But beneath it all I can still see a glimmer of the boy I used to love. When lies are exposed and secrets are revealed, I find myself questioning everything I thought I knew. They say the first cut is the deepest. They were wrong...

Senior year was not going how I planned.It was supposed to be an amazing year-the perfect year.And it started out that way... until my mom remarried, and I found myself in a new town, at a new school, and living with quite possibly the most conniving person I had ever met.But my horrible stepbrother wasn't even the worst part.It was his best friend. Zayden Michaels.Gorgeous. Unpredictable. Treacherous.The kind of guy who sends most sane people running in the opposite direction.He hated me from the first moment he saw me.He made it his mission to make sure I knew it too.I became the target-the bullied.Until suddenly I wasn't anymore.But in a world of rumors, games, and deceit, you never really know who you can trust.Sometimes the best deceptions are the ones you never see coming.

Roses are red. Violets are blue. Forget everything good you've been told about love, because none of it's true. You don't agree? Spend a day in my shoes and you'd curse love too. My name's Blue. Yes, you read that right. Blue Daniels. And I hate love. I despise every single thing about it. In my thirty-two years on this earth it has brought me nothing but heartbreak and disappointment. Love is a void. Something we're taught we need if we want to live a happy and fulfilled life. Well I disagree. Some say I'm a cynic. Other's call me the smartest woman they've ever met. But no matter what anyone says, I know what I need. And love is not it. Enter Harris Avery. A man who thinks he can have anyone he wants, including me. A man who reminds me daily why I swore off love in the first place. He walks around the office like he owns the place, throwing that sexy smirk of his at every female he passes. He thinks no one is immune to his charm. But poor Mr. Avery has never met a girl like me before. I'm more likely to throw myself off a bridge than at his feet. There's just one problem... He's decided to make it his mission to prove me wrong. To that I say, let the games begin...

Ten hours... That's how much time we spent together. How much time I got with the man whose bright eyes and sultry smile almost made me forget that I was sick. Six hundred minutes... That's how long it took me to fall in love. Thirty-six thousand seconds... And then it was over. And all I wanted was more. More seconds. More minutes. More hours. More him. Ten hours... Such a small, insignificant amount of time. Yet those ten hours changed everything.

You never get over your first love. It's something I've heard countless times. Like someone has to point out that your pain will never go away. That your shattered heart will never mend.Because that's exactly what my heart did the day I watched Asher Evans board that train- it shattered, splintering into a million tiny fragments that I didn't think I'd ever be able to piece back together. He was the boy I had loved since I understood what loving someone meant. The one who knew me inside and out. The one who swore he'd never let me go. It's been six years since that day and even now the memory haunts me like it was yesterday.I've done my best to move on, to rebuild, and for the most part I've done pretty well. But all of that comes crashing down when Asher strolls back into town like he never left. I don't want to want him. I certainly don't want to need him. But that doesn't stop me from doing it anyway. Only things are different now. I'm different. I'm not the girl he left behind all those years ago. I may have been foolish enough to give him my heart once but I won't make that mistake a second time. Or at least that's what I tell myself until I'm standing face to face with the one man who has the power to break me all over again.Love Me Like You Won't Let Go is a STANDALONE second chance romance.

They say everything happens for a reason- that there's always a light at the end of the tunnel. For the longest time I didn't think that was true. I had stumbled around in the dark for so many years that I didn't think I would ever find my way out. But when I finally did, it came in the most unexpected way. Miles Hollins had been my brother's best friend for as long as I could remember. We didn't like each other much growing up. Or rather, we couldn't stand each other. But after ten years of being gone, a lot had changed. He wasn't the same boy I remembered. I wasn't the same girl either. So much had happened. I moved away and got married. Miles joined the military. We both returned home broken in our own way. I struggled to find my place in my new life. Miles struggled just to get through the day. But together we slowly began to heal. I quieted his demons and he gave me a sense of belonging. For a while that was enough. But this is real life, and in real life nothing stays perfect forever. In real life not every story ends with a happily ever after. Sometimes the scars we carry are just too deep. I promised him I would fight. He promised me I would lose. I'll do everything in my power to prove him wrong. Because it's when you find the one thing you can't live without, that you truly find yourself. All That We Are is a standalone contemporary romance.

I met Thad Mitchell for the first time when I was just a child. I didn't remember much about him- except that he pushed me off a swing set when I was four years old and broke my arm. Not the best thing to remember about a person but there it is. He moved away a couple years later and soon became a distant memory. That is until I walked into my parent's house after being gone for four years to find him sitting at the kitchen table with my family like he'd been there all along. The second his blue eyes found mine it was instant- the attraction, the spark, the zing as some people call it. In that moment my entire world shifted. Every second, every minute that followed became a whirlwind. Thad didn't just turn my life upside down; he ripped through it-- an unstoppable force of nature that wouldn't be satisfied until there wasn't a single facet of my life left unturned. And yet somehow at the end of it all he was still the only thing I wanted. Haunted by a past he can't escape- the only question that remains is can I find a way to calm the storm that rages inside of him or will I end up just another causality in his unrelenting path of destruction? Force of Nature is a complete standalone.

Hudson and Lennon's story continues in the gripping conclusion to the two part Tequila Duet. It was destiny-- the night I met Hudson Demasi. I remember how effortlessly he stole my heart- his dark eyes and quick smile forever etched into my mind. We spent one incredible night together under a haze of tequila- a perfect night. And when I woke the next day, he was gone...I never expected to see him again-- especially not five years later standing on a stage in front of thousands of screaming fans as none other than hot, new, country artist Hudson James. The moment our eyes meet through the fog and lights it's instant- and when that sexy smirk crosses his face, just like the first time I saw it, I know I'm a goner. He's determined not to let me slip through his fingers a second time. I'm determined to let him try. Because even though I know I should walk away- the urge to feel the burn is just too strong. Tequila Burn is the second book in the two part Tequila Duet. You must read Tequila Haze first.