**NOW PUBLISHED IN EBOOK! This is a companion novella (not a sequel) to my book The Kissing Booth, but if you don't mind some spoilers, feel free to read on regardless!** It's summer, and for Elle and her best friend Lee, that means one thing: The beach house. They've spent every summer of their lives there, but things are different this year. For one thing, Elle is dating Lee's older brother Noah, who's also going to be there with them. Summer at the beach house has never been more fun - and never has it been more upside-down and inside-out. From kissing to sunbathing to volleyball, summer this year is going to be one hell of a ride.

Angry Italian men, an expensive scarf and a nosebleed, somehow leads two people into an extended trip to where their feet touch the ground. A story that brigs together happiness, anger, bravery and pain. "How long can you really stand a person, 50/50 in your mind?" ~Divapurple~ (Author of "When it Hails") ~R.L Moon~ (Author of "Caffeine")

Laura Marano - abused, tortured and tormented - is completely focused on her future, and ignoring her past and the present. Each and every day that passes, means one more day that she can get out of that hellhole. But as the story unravels, we see how truly broken and vulnerable she has become. Ross just wants to be her knight in shining armour; he wants to protect her from all the bad happening in the world. But Laura doesn't want him to. He saw her than night - that night when everything came crumbling down, and left a new nightmare planted in Laura's head, leaving a permanent scar. He, just wants to be there for her. This isn't your normal romance book. This book explores the ideas of honesty, friendship, lies and abuse. And somehow, we get love tied up in all of this. This book will have a couple of parts, in which I will slowly unravel the true after effects of an abused life.

One night changed my life forever. Jake Carson has been my best friend since I can remember. He was my first crush before everything came crashing down, and now he wants more, but it's more than I can give him. Things are different now. I wish I could tell him why, but I can't. I haven’t told anyone. I never knew how much I really needed him until the day he left for college, and I was completely alone. Then one day, Ross Lynch rides into town with his dark, captivating eyes and cocky grin. He doesn't care who I used to be, he's simply breathing life into what’s left. People warn me to stay away from him, but he helps me forget the pain that has held me hostage for so long; something I thought was impossible before he walked into my life. I’ve been hurt. I’ve been saved. And I’ve found hope. I thought my story was written that night, but now I know it was only a new beginning. Until one secret turns my world upside down… Again.