After having her heart broken by the only man she's ever loved everything seemed to go downhill for Emerson Grace. It has taken eight years but Emmy is finally starting to pick up the pieces of her damaged life. But the man who destroyed it has returned bringing with him the pain of the past. Can she let go of the pain Luke caused and accept him back into her life or will the memories be too much for her to overcome? Running from Emmy was the only way Lucas Allen knew he could protect her from the demons he carried with him. After spending one perfect night together Luke takes off, certain...

Alone. That's the way I live my life. There is no other way. If I let people in, the nightmares will consume me. Loneliness is all I've ever known. Until Jordan came into my life. Now I have a choice to make. Embrace the nightmares within my own mind, or risk losing the only man I've ever loved. Can I let go of the fear I've kept bottled up my whole life in order to save him? I'm just not sure.

People make mistakes when they're young, but how they choose to come back from those mistakes is what matters in the end. Savannah Morgan found true love at a very early age, but one rash decision - one that she would regret for the rest of her life - was all it took to end her relationship with the love of her life. For seven years, Jeremy Matthews has accepted being "just friends" with the only woman he's ever loved. Finally deciding that enough is enough, Jeremy relentlessly pursues Savannah until he forces her to see just how right they are for each other. When Savannah's past mistake is...

Men cause nothing but pain. I live my life by these five words. For me, they have always proven to be true. Men have only brought hurt and suffering my entire life, leaving nothing but devastation in their wake. I fear them. I hate them. Until him. Gabriel forced his way into my life, ripping down the walls I've built around myself. He wants me, and he'll stop at nothing to have me. I should be terrified of what he makes me feel. So why do I crave him anyway? I see the red flags and warning signs, but I just can't help myself. I'm his obsession. I thought he was my salvation. But now I know...

The past always comes back to haunt you. Well my past is worse than most, and it hasn't come back solely to haunt me. It's returned to annihilate me and everyone I love. Now I know our pasts are tied together. I should have stayed away. I should have continued to run. But I couldn't. Gabriel is my addiction. No matter how hard I fight it, I just can't let him go. My love for him is all consuming. I want him with everything I am. He gave me light when I've lived in a world of nothing but darkness. But the other shoe has finally dropped. Our pasts have returned. And they've set out to destroy...

Living in the small town of Cloverleaf, watching her friends settle down one by one, all Lizzy wants is her own happily ever after. But with each failed date she starts to believe that finding the one man who will look at her like she's his reason for living is practically impossible. Trevor has had feelings for Lizzy since stepping foot into Cloverleaf, but despite their intense chemistry when they first met, the feisty little redhead friend-zoned him before he ever had a chance to make his move. After watching her date every loser in town he's finally decided enough is enough. Thanks to a...

The use of the phrase life is hard has become so diluted, so overstated through the years that when someone hears it the words go in one ear and out the other. The impact is no longer there. The meaning, the importance of that phrase no longer holds any water with those it's spoken to. Freya Linden's life became hard at the age of seventeen, the summer before her senior year of high school. The bright colors of her life faded into black and white, a colorless shell full of loneliness. Until she met him. Parker Owens breathed life back into her world. With him she began to heal. But happiness...

Pepper O'Malley isn't one to be toyed with. Fool her once, shame on you. Fool her twice, and they'll have trouble finding your body. She used to dream of white picket fences and happily-ever-afters, but now she lives in the real world. As the saying goes, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," especially when that woman is a redheaded spitfire. Griffin Locklaine always viewed commitment as a four letter word. He was clear about what he wanted from the start and made no apologies for it. He didn't care if he came off cold as ice. He lived for his job, his family, and his friends. He had no...