Takashi and Toryn met each other when they were five. Became best friends at ten. Were inseparable by time they were fifteen. Built an indestructible bond at twenty. And now at the age of twenty five, after twenty years of friendship, due to the slowly deteriorating memory Toryn has had since she was a baby, she will one day forget everything. Including the one thing Takashi told her the first time they met. "Don't forget about me." -Takashi Maxwell Cover by: @lucida-

A devastating loss. A faded photo. A fateful meeting. Two years ago, Savannah lost her adoptive mother in a tragic accident, leaving a gaping hole in her life and a single clue to finding her birth mother. She longs for answers that may never be found, but a journey to Chicago presents an opportunity to pursue her dream. What she finds will forever change her world. When Savannah, a teenage girl from Portland, ends up in Aiden's emergency room, he experiences déjà vu, picturing the woman he once loved and the child he never knew. The meeting stirs memories of his own troubled childhood... memories of devastating loss and deep secrets he's kept hidden even from his closest friends. One chance encounter... One unexpected moment... The second chance that changes everything... The Hamilton Series Book I

Book 2, The Hamilton Series, Sequel to Reunited. ~ Note, this book is an excerpt ~ full novel HAS NOW BEEN PUBLISHED to iBooks, Kobo, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble worldwide. A wedding... Two exes... What could go wrong? All promises come at a cost, and Aiden has made many he cannot break. Especially the one made to a man on his deathbed. Take care of our Savannah. Now he must learn to parent a teenage daughter he barely knows... without the benefit of the woman he loves. Once he navigates the two weekends at his best friend's wedding, he intends to embrace the future. Without Emily. Emily may have regrets, but she also has a career and life in Chicago and refuses to pursue a man to another state, no matter how perfect he seems. After watching the implosion of relationships around her, she's learned the art of self-preservation. If she could avoid Aiden, life would be so much easier, but first she has to get through her bridesmaid's duties in her friend's wedding. One where her ex-boyfriend is the best man and his ex-wife is the maid of honor. Both vow to be on their best behavior to avoid ruining their friends' extravagant dream wedding. But saying that final might be harder than they imagined. What would you sacrifice for love?

Evelyn Pearce has it all. The looks, the friends, the popularity, the personality. She never chose to be popular, it just happened. To her, she just has many friends. And if you're thinking of the normal popular Queen B then you're wrong. Evelyn is one of the nicest most kindhearted people at North East High School. So why would she deserve to be used, abused, and stolen of her innocence? It wasn't up to her, but up to a ruthless man who left her with a little something to remember him by. And what happens when she can't identify him? Put a face to the crime? Why does she only remember one thing? The piercing sapphire blue eyes that watched her as he tortured her. Just as it seems her world will fall apart, like she has nothing to live for. Her best friend Jacob gives her hope. A reason to live. Love. Will her life fall to pieces or will Jacob help her reconstruct it? [This is an old story. My FIRST, actually, and written four years ago. So please don't read it if you're expecting an impeccable, professional read. Thank you.] Copyright 2014 © All Rights Reserved

Lucy, a 17-year old slave girl, was born on the plantation, works on the plantation, and will most likely die on the plantation. She knows little of the world past the plantation, but that doesn't keep her from wondering about it. With the rare abilities to read and write, she knows there's a better life out there for her; it's just a matter of where. Deciding to find her better life, she runs away to the north, hoping to make a living for herself. But, on her way to freedom, Lucy encounters Koi, the 21-year old son of an Indian tribe's chief. He welcomes her into his tribe, showing her the ways of the world and the heart. At Koi's side, Lucy ventures beyond the cotton fields.

After his wife's death, Ronan dedicates his life to their daughter. Laura hates men and feels none of them can be trusted after her boyfriend walks out of her life with a cavalier 'it's been fun sweetheart.' Can two wounded hearts be made whole again or is the pain in their past too much for them to overcome?

Outlaw and all around bad guy Marston finds a dying man along the railroad tracks. His only plan is to take the mans nearby horse, his gun and whatever money he might have in his pockets but the dying mans words gnaw at him 'Give my love to Rose' the man had said and 'Tell my boy I'm proud of him'. Without knowing why Marston feels the need to honor the dying mans wishes. The mans quest leads him to Harper Louisianna and when he finds Rose she is not what he expected and neither is the boy.... Marston has spent his whole life hurting people and not caring. Willl these people make him want to change and what will Rose say when she learns what kind of man he really is?

Supermodel Mila Belvedere never expected her predictable life of fame, photo shoots, and flashing lights to take such drastic turns. Never would she have guessed that her mother would fall so terribly ill, that her mother's couture line and all its fortune would dangle helplessly above her hands. Now Mila has caught the attention of people willing to do anything to get their hands on her fortune- and her. Sensing the danger, Mila tells her mother whose reaction horribly surprises her. She is adamant on changing her mother's exaggerative decision. A bodyguard? And why does it have to be the dark, alluring, and dangerously handsome Agent Francisco Medina? The line between professional and personal is always just a step away from being crossed... And when they meet, it proves to be the hardest thing they have to fight. As Agent Medina protects his client from those wanting her harmed, she slowly disarms him and he comes to heal her in more ways than one. But they can't forget the reason they're together. He needs to stop the threat. And for New York's best bodyguard... this is the most personal it can get. Copyright 2014 © All Rights Reserved

Aurelia, a Noble Roman woman, had heard of the savage British tribes, their mystic Celtic ways, and the battles the Roman army was fighting against them on their shores. The battles her soon-to-be Husband, Quintus Acquilla, was fighting in the name of the Eagle. But she could not have predicted that, when she crossed the ocean to be with him and fulfil the marriage contract between their families, she would be captured by a Barbarian War Lord and made to be his War Prize...

Wyoming Territory 1884 Leah lived a sheltered and comfortable life. It changes the night she goes against her family's wishes and runs away to marry her beau. Attacked by a band of outlaws, her beau apparently murdered, Leah is thrust into the fear of the unknown with men who seem pure evil. Confusion accompanies the explainable passion she feels toward the tall Indian who is holding her prisoner and yet keeping her safe inside this camp of outlaws? Chase Caldwell was raised a man who took what he wanted to survive without guilt. He had never thought anything could change that until Leah came tumbling into his life and made him question the way he was living. A love unlike any other but it seems impossible. Will peace ever find these young lovers or will Leah's family or Chase's outlaw past and Indian blood keep them forever apart?