He looked at me giving me that look, I knew I was in trouble. I could feel my heart pounding as he drew closer to me. I felt his large hand grab on to my hair making me squint with the pain. That's when it all began. Elise was your typical teenage girl. She loved school and music. Elise is in a abusive relationship with an older guy called Blaine. Most days is tiring trying to hide her bruises from the people that care about her except for her best friend, Aubrey. Chad is Elise's brothers best friend who she has known for years. She starts to have strange feelings and thoughts about Chad that she has never experienced before. Find out what will happen when Elise's secrets about Blaine come out! Will she be able to keep it together? Will Elise and Chad stop fighting temptations and admit their feelings for eachother? Will Blaine let her just walk away?

"So what do we do?" "We can work something out. There's just one problem... We can't let your brother find out." ❁ Available now to order! Link in bio!

When most people look back on their lives, they see that one defining event. The moment that changes everything. And my moment was him.

Mari Hansen ran away from home at 15 not being able to stand her radically religious family anymore and was desperate to be nothing like them which lead her to living on the streets subjecting herself to drugs, alcohol and prostitution going down a road straight to an early death when her pregnancy saved her life. Clean and sober since then, she would do anything to provide for her even if it's selling her body to do that. She went from the bad streets where she was beat up to an agency for high priority clients. Now 24 with a 7 year old daughter she wants out of the life she's known nearly 10 years so she can do anything else, already knowing that one day her daughter would have to know the truth. So she studies while Lalexia is at school when she gets a new client that her boss thought only she could handle. Shawn Sorci left home as soon as he could and never went back. He was off to basic right after graduation. He dedicated his life to the Army and in 9 years he had served a good portion of that overseas. He volunteered for deployments and his leadership qualities shone through as he was promoted to Sergeant First Class shortly before his latest deployment, which he didn't know could possibly be his last. Part way in they were ambushed and he was lucky to make it out with a couple gunshot wounds while some of his men never made it out. Now on medical leave while he recovers he's irritable, frustrated, angry and not wanting to admit he was suffering from PTSD. He needed to let off some steam and that's where Mari come in. He didn't want some fake experience because he really didn't care so when he tells her to speak her mind she becomes the most infuriating and sarcastic woman he's ever met, putting him in his place on many occasions much to his amusement. For once in his life he feels a fierce protectiveness for someone other than for the men he served with but she wants nothing to do with that, to her he's a client and nothing else.

Marilyn Cassel has been lost since she was abused by her last boyfriend. It seems like everything is falling apart, her mom is sick with cancer and doesn't have long to live, her dad died when she was 16 in the war and now the only person she has left is her brother who is leaving to go to war. Everyone she has ever loved is slipping through her fingers. But now she is 24 she is a grown women with a good life, and after six years with her brother serving in the military he comes home for 12 months and he brings along a friend, Anthony Jamison who just might be the one to help her put everything back together.

(Cover by: happybunnyx123) Lexi is a freak, at least that's what everyone tells her. She talks to the dead, has no friends and her own father is afraid of her. But when a new teacher arrives at school her life is shaken up more than she could ever imagine.