Addy Mae is a 17 year old girl who is not very popular in school. She's very shy and doesn't have many friends. She was in a car accident with her mother and brother and she was the only one who survived. Her father blames her for the accident and takes all his anger out on her. He has had a drinking problem ever since they died and that just fuels his anger towards Addy. He beats her almost every night, some nights he's too drunk to even remember she's home. Those nights are the best nights for Addy. Adrian Grey is the so called "bad boy" in school. He is the same age as Addy but he is 10 times more popular than she is. Him and Addy share most classes but have never talked. He plays on the schools hockey team, The Badgers. They are in the top 3 best high school hockey teams in the US. All the girls in school are basically in love with him. He lives alone for most part because his dad is always away for business and his mom died of cancer when he was 7. He has never opened up to anyone and doesn't plan to. But one day he saves a wonderful girl from being kidnapped while she is walking to school. Are they going to fall in love? Will he finally open up about his feeling? Will he find out about Addys father? Will she be saved from her father? Read to find out.

The passionate story of Tessa and Hardin continues as family secrets, deep betrayals, and career opportunities threaten to tear them apart.

This is the sequel (continuation) of After. Hardin and Tessa's relationship will be tested in ways she never expected, but he knew of all along.

Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction? ****** Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything. [[word count: 200,000-250,000 words]]