Was macht dein Herz? Es schlägt nochBevor ich mich auf die Wette einließ, dass ich jedes Mädchen - selbst Shay Gable - dazu bringen würde, sich in mich zu verlieben, war ich mir sicher, dass ich nichts von den Dingen, die Shay mir geben könnte, jemals wollte. Doch schon bald konnte ich an nichts anderes mehr denken: Glück. Das Gefühl, zu Hause zu sein. Einen sicheren Ort zu haben, um mich fallen zu lassen. Hoffnung. Liebe. Ihre Seele. Und ihr Licht. Doch was konnte ich ihr im Gegenzug geben? Meine Narben. Meine Angst. Meine Schwere. Meinen Schmerz. Meine Dunkelheit. Das war nicht fair....

Ich vermisse deinen Herzschlag. Ich vermisse dich. Ich vermisse uns. Ich bin fest davon überzeugt, dass man seine erste große Liebe nie vergessen wird. Man gestattet ihr, in einer kleinen Ecke seines Herzens weiterzuleben. Und deshalb weiß ich, dass ich nach Landon nie wieder in der Lage sein werde, einen anderen Menschen von ganzem Herzen zu lieben. Meine Seele ist für immer verwundet. Mein Herz gefror zu Eis, als er mich verlassen hat. Es würde ein Wunder brauchen, um es wieder auftauen zu lassen. Und ohne Landon glaube ich nicht länger an Wunder. "Dieses Buch ist nicht einfach nur...

I MISS YOUR HEARTBEATS. I MISS YOU. I MISS USOnce upon a time, I fell in love with a boy. A beautiful, broken boy who had his own world of struggles. People warned me against our love, but I didn't listen. We looked weak. Young, foolish. Dangerously in love. We didn't care. In order to keep our hearts protected from the opinions of others, we became each other's secret. We shared stolen moments. Tender touches. Secretive embraces. It was our twisted love story, and it worked for us up until our lives changed forever. The boy I loved became Hollywood's newest golden boy. His career blossomed...

HOW'S YOUR HEART TODAY? STILL BEATINGShay Gable hated my guts, and I hated hers, too. We went out of our way to avoid one another at all times. When she came my direction, I went the other. When we locked eyes, she'd turn and walk away. All of that changed the day I was presented with a challenge. It started out as a stupid bet: make Shay fall in love with me before I fell in love with her first. That was an easy bet for me to win. I didn't love, I hardly liked. Yet slowly the game started to shift. Shay made me crave things I never knew I wanted. Love. Happiness. Her. The closer we grew, the...

HE LEFT HIS MARK ON ME. AND ALL I HOPED WAS THAT SOMEHOW, I'D LEAVE A MARK ON HIS SOUL, TOOGreyson East left his mark on me. As the young girl who first fell for him, I didn't know much about life. I did know about his smiles, though, and his laughs, and the strange way my stomach flipped when he was near. Life was perfect ... until it wasn't, and when we were forced to go our separate ways, I held on to our memories, let go of my first crush, and wished for the day I'd find him again. When my wish came true, it was nothing like I imagined. I couldn't have known when I took the nanny position...