[highest ranking in romance - #3] [highest ranking in teen fiction - #19] "You've built your walls so high no one can climb them. But I'm gonna try." ❧ Lauren Gates is an eighteen year old girl whose past has left her with major trust issues and has caused her to shut out socializing from her life completely. But when she moves with her aunt to a new state, everything starts to change. Logan Williams is popular, good-looking, and determined to help Lauren break out of the shell she's been hiding in for the past three years - no matter what it takes. Somewhere along the way, her feelings for Logan start to develop into something more than she expected. But can she really learn to let go and allow herself to feel this way? Or will she keep holding on to the past?

She didn't mean to love the man who she knew that will never love her back. Shanaya Campbell is working a successful editor-in-chief. She is only 22 years old but she already received the highlight of her life. She has everything. A nice job, a wonderful family even a handsome fiancé. But everything changes when she finds out a nasty affair in her life. Shanaya couldn't take it so she runs away, very far away. She wanted to leave and forget what happened but she didn't noticed that she is driving too fast that she ended up in an accident. And that encounter made her and Caius meet. The handsome and mysterious guy that helped her out. But he needs something in return. "Nothing is free in this world, Shanaya. Nothing. Even kindness is not free anymore." Something must have brought them together. There is a reason why they met. Shanaya is supposedly controlling her feelings but she can't whenever he's around. She didn't noticed but she is falling for him faster and that should not happen. Because it is obvious, that he will never love her back.

His fingers strayed to my arm, moving slowly up as he caressed me. Leaving my skin burning hot in their path. My breathing hitched as I gazed into his eyes, more black than green this time, swirling with lust. His face was so close to mine, I felt his warm breath against my cheeks. His lips slightly parted. "I want what I want," He said. I wasn't sure if it was directed to me or it was more self contemplative. But then his lips inched closer to me and I felt the tickle of them brush again mine. I knew I was in trouble. ________________________________________ We're all trying to figure out life, facing the obstacles it throws at us. Wynter Scott was doing just that. All set out for her already was her future and she was content with it. Or so she thought. Aspen Lake on the other hand is at rock bottom. He doesn't know how much more he could take. But when he meets Winter he feels something for the first time: Hope. She deserves so much better but being the selfish prick he is he doesn't think he could let her go.

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.