Bella Cullen had it all. She was married to the love of her life, had amazing friends and family that loved her, but all of that changes in a flash when she and her husband, Edward, are in an accident.

I.M. Swan, a best-selling author, is on top of the literary world. After coming off her book tour for her latest book, she has begun her research for the next, a book on the Chicago Mafia. Spending hours in the library and courthouse, she is surprised to find out a most curious piece of information about the Don of the largest crime family. He is not the rightful heir to the family. Aro Volturi planned and executed the complete destruction of the Cullen family. Wiping away any documentation or body of any evidence of the family from the face of the earth, or he thought so. Edward Cullen was smuggled away with the aid of his faithful nanny, who kept him safe until it was time for him to take revenge for his family's death. Training and building a new, stronger family to take back what is rightfully his and executing the man who took his family from him. One evening, as Edward is following one of Aro's hitmen, he witnesses him as a young woman in the alley. Coming to her aid, he is mesmerized by her beauty and when he gets to know her, he is in awe of her intellect. Will Bella be able to survive with Edward's help or will Aro get to her and silence her forever?

Edward Masen, twenty-eight, is the most popular escort working for Esme Platt at Buying Love, Inc. He's the best at what he does and no woman goes unsatisfied. He's smooth, sexy, dangerous and in control. In many ways. In all things. However, his employer holds him to this job due to the debt he needs to repay. He's a slave to the job in more ways than one. He lives in the best apartments, dresses in designer clothing and drives the best cars. All of it, though, can disappear in a moment's notice all because of Esme knows Edward's darkest secret. Isabella Swan, twenty-six, is an heiress to the Swan hotel fortune. Her father, Charlie Swan, owns a string of high-end hotels and resorts all over the world. Bella, as her friends call her, is going through a nasty divorce from her husband, Riley. He cheated on Bella with the limo driver, the gardener, the pool boy and Bella's assistant, Maggie. Bella is bitter and angry, hating all men and most of all, her abhorrent soon-to-be ex-husband. Charlie is having a grand opening for his newest hotel in Seattle, Swan Towers. Bella is expected to be there with a date for this lavish opening party. Rose, Bella's best friend, suggested that she use a male escort, handing her Esme Platt's card for Buying Love, Inc. Bella calls and asks for the best. Edward arrives, dressed in his designer tuxedo, all suave and debonair, but detached and cold. However, the attraction between the two is palpable. Will they succumb to their attraction? Will Edward pull Bella down the dark path in his need for control? Or will Bella be his light? Or is this all a ploy for just buying love?

Bella and Edward Masen had their fresh start and are beginning a new chapter in their lives: raising triplets, one of which doesn't speak. Follow along with their families as they learn to deal with a child with special needs. However, a blast from the past lurks in the corner. Who and why are they choosing to come back into the Masen's lives? Part Two in the A Fresh Start Series

Edward Cullen, son to Carlisle Cullen the mafia Boss of New York and New Jersey has been off to college in Boston. Hiding under his alias Anthony Masen, he has led a normal existence except for the ever-present security guard. Going out to his favorite club, to find someone to scratch his itch, however, he finds someone unlike anyone else. Bella Swan, daughter of Pentecostal Preacher Charlie Swan, defines her father's wishes and goes to school in Boston. In his eyes, she has already shamed her family. One night her roommates talk her into putting away the books and going out with them. The moment he asked her to dance, she knew her life would forever be changed. Will they find love in the end or will blood be spilled?

Isabella Swan is the only daughter of Charlie Swan, the leader of the Swan Mafia Family. While out with her father, they are attacked by a rival family, The Wolf Pack and her father was critically injured. The family doctor was unavailable, and Bella is scrambling for a replacement. She called the person she'd least expect to help her. Dr. Edward Cullen is working as an emergency room physician when he got a phone call from the girl he'd secretly loved all throughout college, but she kept him in the friend-zone, save for one drunken night. After that, she disappeared, and he hadn't heard from her. Until this fateful night ... And he found her much changed, hardened, scarred and angry. Charlie Swan's life hangs in the balance, and the only person who can save him is Bella's former friend and one-time lover. Will Edward be able to save Charlie and stay away from the girl, who is now a woman and far more beautiful, despite the scarred and hardened exterior?

Dr. Edward Masen lived a lonely, miserable existence as an emergency room attending at Harborview Medical Center. He ate, breathed and lived for his job. He refused to even think about women. To him, they were only distractions and he didn't trust anyone, except his mother. Dr. Isabella Swan just moved to Seattle, after completing her residency in Chicago. She was hired as a pediatrician at Harborview, becoming a pediatric emergency room fellow. She was not looking for a relationship, only focusing on her job. It was hate at first sight for both. Or was it? But, their attraction could not be denied. Unfortunately, a natural disaster rattles their lives ... the world was turned upside down when escalating earthquakes plagued the Seattle area. Will they able to survive the danger of being on Shaky Ground?

Isabella Swan moved away from the world she's known, trying to move on from the loss of her parents and raising her baby sister, Katie. She's always seen the best in the world, but she's struggling in coping with all of the changes in her life. A new start was needed and she packed up, moving from the small town of Forks to Chicago to work as an advertising junior executive at Masen Advertising Corporation. Edward Cullen, CEO of Masen Advertising Corporation, is a cold-hearted, uncaring, hateful asshole. An orphan and living in foster care until he turned fifteen, he was adopted by Carlisle and Esme Cullen. Edward struggled with forming relationships. All he wanted was a partner, a friend, a lover, a wife, a mother to his children. He lost his wife, Tanya, when she was found screwing his partner, Jacob Black, on his desk. She also shattered his heart, ending several pregnancies, even though Edward had pleaded to start a family. What happens when Edward bumps into Bella in the hallways of Masen Advertising Corporation? Will she be the chink in his armor, shattering his carefully constructed walls? Or will he bring her into the darkness, shattering her optimistic view of the world? It's uncertain, but she's Falling for a Dark Soul.

In the blink of an eye, your world can change. You can experience the greatest happiness ... or succumb to the world's worst pain, losing someone that had no reason to die ... Edward Cullen, a decorated fireman, after losing a woman in a deadly apartment fire, left his life and family in Seattle, trying to escape the ghost of the beautiful woman, the concert mistress of Seattle Symphony. He stayed away from Seattle, living in Boston, working as an arson investigator until his mother called him, informing him that she had cancer. Without a second thought, Edward moved home to help his family. Dr. Isabella Swan, a renowned oncologist, specializing in women's cancers, went through the paces of life. Her mother, an ovarian cancer survivor, was her impetus to become a doctor. However, she was closed-off and had been for many years ... since the death of her twin sister, Angela, in an apartment fire. Bella focused on her job, working to forget the empty pain of losing her soul mate. Even eight years after her death, Bella was profoundly broken because of it. She never let anyone in ... Until ... a handsome, sexy man and a son of one of her patients ... Edward Cullen ... Everything in her mind told her it was wrong, but in the blink of an eye, your world can change. You can experience the greatest happiness. Your life can come back to life, especially when you find your new soul mate ... the Fire of your Soul. COLLABORATION WITH HEARTFORTWILIGHT

Edward is a choral director, reeling from his recent divorce from his wife, Jessica. His world is filled with his daughter, Emma, his music and his job. Bella is an English teacher, running from her past and wary of love. ExB, AH, AU