A woman who spent years running from her past collides with the man who never forgot any of it. This is a romance about trauma, faith in the midst of violence and corruption, and the redeeming power of love. About people caught between the lives they inherited and the ones they're fighting to choose. Can we break the cycles we were raised in, or are we forever shaped by the habits forced upon us? 𓆩❤︎𓆪 "You make me go crazy sometimes," he whispered, mint and heat brushing my face. "Am I really that bad?" I asked softly. "No," he rasped, low and honest. "I am." 𓆩❤︎𓆪 !!FULL BOOK SYNOPSIS AND TAGS INSIDE!!

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.

When protection becomes passion, He will protect her heart risking his own. Life has not always been fair to Odette. Yes, she's rich and famous and everyone is jealous of her and would kill to be her. But not all is at it seems, because behind closed doors you wouldn't even dream to be her. From distant parents who treat her like a prize to a missing sister no one talks about, to forced diet, to losing her identity trying to be someone she's not. Her life is not even hers anymore which leads to a lot of misunderstanding with those around her. Leon is a man on a mission. He wants to escape the unfair social hierarchy he grew up with. In a city where the rich, live in their fancy estate by the mountains overlooking the poor down below. Now all he wants is to escape. But escape needs money which is why he has accepted a job from the very class of people he hates.

The last thing Liam Mcyntire expected to find in his barn one cold February morning, was a half-starved , frozen-solid woman. She's covered in bruises and full of mistrust and suspicions. He'd been perfectly content in his bachelor life of trapping critters, selling furs and living in solitude but this mysterious woman might just change all that. Emma Hawke was running. Running from her father, from the damage the man had done. Running from a life she didn't want--a life no different from the one that had killed her mother. She's never been off the mountain. She trusts nothing and no one--not even the man who saved her life by bringing her out of the cold. If Liam's going to win her heart, he's going to have to learn patience and how to truly care for someone more than he does himself. He'll have to love her softly. Can Emma overcome her past? Can she learn to trust--possibly even love--despite the fear that she holds of men and of marriage? Or will her past track her down and destroy any hope she has for a future?

an·dro·pho·bia | \ ˌan-drə-ˈfō-bē-ə noun : an abnormal dread of men : repugnance to the male sex Thea is the definition of sweetness. Whether it be stopping to talk to a homeless person in the streets or volunteering overtime at her local charity shop, she feels the need to give and not take. Although that comes with disadvantages of its own, the effects of a strange phobia of hers only make her life more difficult: her growing fear of men. And when she meets the most terrifying of them all, she is forced to ultimately confront her fear. In the form of a murderous member of the mafia by the name of Synn, that same uncontrollable terror that she experiences in the presence of a man only sparks an interest in him. But unbeknownst to Synn, a man who revels at the tremor of his enemies, he cannot figure out why her wide, teary eyes do not give him the same pleasure. Why does that same terror-stricken look on Thea's face only make his heart clench with pain instead of content? #1 in Hot #1 in Fear #1 in Scared #1 in Sweet #1 in Kind #3 in Cute #5 in Love Cover done by @kimtherespeopledying