Cherry blossom lipstick: check

Smokey eyes: check

Skinny jeans: check

Dead kid in the mirror: check

 

For sixteen year old Mattie Hathaway, this is her normal everyday routine. She’s been able to see ghosts since her mother tried to murder her when she was five years old. No way does she want anyone to know she can talk to spooks. Being a foster kid is hard enough without being labeled a freak too.

Wendi Wise is a troubled young woman who snorts her breakfast through a straw and spends more time in rehab than in the real world…

 

Her life is seemingly out of control.

 

But now she has a plan.

 

That plan involves a sharp set of butcher knives.

 

She's going back to where all of her troubles began…

Abduction is a romantic expression of passion…

 

The moment I meet Amber, I know I have to have her.

 

The only problem: this gorgeous law student is already engaged—to a guy she suspects is cheating on her. Toss in the fact that if she finds out the truth about my criminal family, who knows how she'll react.

 

Despite the obstacles, we keep finding our way back to each other—and I don't know how much longer I can keep up my defenses against her...

Some stories should never be told. Others have to be—it’s the only way.

 

Since moving back to my hometown of Hastings, Texas, I’ve been called a whore, tramp, and homewrecker. And maybe I’m all of those things and more.

 

But those people don’t know me. They don’t see me. They only see my mistakes.

Colton Wild isn’t just the famous football player everyone sees on their television screen.

 

I met Colton one summer vacation when we lined up on opposite sides of a flag football field. He was the cocky kid with clear blue eyes and a constant smirk.

 

When he picked me up over his shoulder and ran with me the length of the field, I wanted to hate him.

 

But somehow we were the last two left around the campfire that night. We talked for hours under the stars. And when he kissed me, I didn’t want him to stop.

The moment I meet the admittedly cute trespasser ready to attack me in my sister’s home just weeks after a tragic accident took her from us, I know the woman’s going to be trouble.

 

She’s sexy as hell, distractingly curvy—and obviously keeping things from me and my family. Worse than that, she’s definitely afraid of something, and it’s driving me crazy she won’t tell me what.

Gage Hamilton. Smoldering and single. Entirely uninterested in anything resembling romance. His hot new neighbor is definitely not part of his plans.

 

Marley Adams is way too distracting for Gage’s own good. Control is the name of the game for an ex-military operative like Gage. Yet, he finds control hard to come by with Marley. In fact, he’d like nothing more than to get his hands on every inch of her. Just once and that might be enough.

Jo and Kirsten think that they are just looking for a bit of adventure, but when they stumble across a small desert town full of unruly outlaws it looks as if they have found somewhere that at least one of them wants to call home.

 

The Forsaken Riders are like nothing Jo has ever seen. Red hot, beastly bikers with a hard edge that is screaming to be softened by the right woman. And Tanner is the one that wants her. She catches his eye in an instant and he is determined to make her his. With a broken down car and a stay in Slate Springs lengthening into something more, will the girls decide to stay, or will they leave the outlaw life behind them and try to repair their own damaged friendship?