People tell you all the time you can choose who you want to be ... forge the direction of your own path, but what happens when life chooses for you? Haunted by my past, I'm living my life the only way I know how. Emotionless. Disconnected. Alone. A last minute change in assignment puts me in charge of protecting her, Julia Parker, daughter of the wealthiest businessman in Brookedale, New York. She's attractive, stubborn, and completely closed off. Worst of all? She's affecting me in ways I can't even begin to comprehend. Being around her is anything but easy. I'm losing focus. I'm questioning...

Twenty-year-old Julia Parker has the ideal life. She comes from a wealthy family, has the perfect boyfriend, and plans to spend the summer in Europe. However, nothing is ever what it seems. It has been thirteen years since her mother's unexpected death, and the pain she still feels is something she keeps hidden beneath the surface. But for the second time in her life, everything's about to change. After discovering her boyfriend having an affair with her roommate, she's forced to spend the summer at home. Only she won't be alone. Recent events have caused an increase in security, and her...

Loneliness is a desolate feeling that claws its way into the very fabric of your life, dragging you to despair. It is an isolation of your heart and soul and a rejection of everything you are, and everything you try to be, by the very people who should be showering you with love and acceptance... A life of solitude becomes the norm for Charlotte Whittaker. An emptiness fills her with a void so big that she finds herself running to escape it-running to be alone... It takes a new country and a new outlook on friendship for her to begin to build up her trust in others again. Easton James wraps...