Riley Brenan should've had the life she dreamed of when she was young. A good job, a lovely house and a beautiful wife. But life had other plans. When faced with making a life changing decision to protect someone she loves, Riley is forced to abandon everything she has ever known and cherished. Four years later, Riley returns to her hometown carrying deep wounds that refuse to heal, only to find that nothing is the way she left it. Her little brother won't speak to her, her parents are on the edge of divorce, her friends are married and pursuing careers, and her old girlfriend has moved on with her life. Riley tries to make a life for herself in a town she doesn't recognize anymore. Now, every day has become a fight to get everything she has lost back, while stopping the memories of her horrible past from haunting her and taking away what little she has left.

After having her life shattered, Faye Burton moves to New York to pursue her long life dream of having her own solo exhibition, while trying to find out who she is outside the people who have always surrounded her. As she makes a new life for herself in a completely different city with completely new people, she is forced to look at everything she is, including the things she wishes she weren't. Faye will need to figure out who she is, who she wants to be and how her life will look like from now on... especially when it comes to her, who shall not be named.

"I was ordered to kill you." 21 year old Mavis Griffon is a stripper for the Inferno night club when one night, a woman in a silver dress walks in. Calm, deadly, and a knockout blonde. There is something alluring about her, something intoxicating in the way she pulls out her gun and aims it at Mavis with words that will change her life forever. "I was ordered to kill you." Her eyes search mine, as though she is waiting for me to scream, to run, to fight. But I only let a smirk grace my lips, and I hide my trembling hands as I say, "Then what are you waiting for?"

Book 1 of the Adalyne series. The story revolves around a high school teacher Jazmin Valencia and is told in her point of view. She is confident, devoid of emotion and detached from the world, but she prefers to be this way; it's how she survives after having her heart broken. She takes notice of a particular student one day and begins to pour her energy into trying to help the young girl, but in doing so, Jazmin risks the very heart that she has spent so long protecting. Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any names, businesses, places and events are either used in a fictitious manner or created by me for the sole purpose of entertainment. Any resemblance to actual businesses or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

It's hard to be a mother. Especially a single mother. It's been almost ten years now that Alex is struggling to raise her kids alone and be true to her word. In her now 36 years of life things were never easy. Now she has to raise her two teenage daughters and keep them safe from the world. Will she be able to protect them? Is she able to keep her promise to her wife Summer? What will happen when a new woman catches her eye?

It's been two years. Two whole years since Alex left her family and no one has ever heard of her again. And as it looks like no one ever will. Will Summer and Silvia be able to raise the kids without fighting? Will they become closer that ever? ☆ This is book two of Dane family. You should read the first book before this one. ☆