Hooking up with her best friend's brother is Sam's childhood crush come true, but to have a future together, she'll have to overcome her past. ***** Sam Larson has always known Mason Wells is off-limits. He's her best friend's brother, and their family took her in when she needed somewhere to go as a teen. She thought she'd let her crush go, but seeing him at his sister's wedding brings all those old feelings back. And then some. Hooking up is one thing, but to have a real relationship, Sam will have to wrestle with the past she fears if she's going to have the future she longs for. [[Word count: 60,000-70,000]] Cover designed by @OutofMyLimit17 Content Warning: This book contains references to drug use, childhood neglect, and intimate partner abuse.

❝The past becomes the present and history repeats itself.❞ - When Katie comes home a few months early from traveling abroad, she has nerve-wracking news to deliver to her parents. She's pregnant. Not only that, but she is stuck in nearly the same exact scenario that her parents were in twenty years ago. While Katie grapples with the decisions she knows she needs to make, it seems to inevitably dig up old wounds for her parents.

"Who's got the touch to calm the storm inside? Who's gonna save you? Alive and Kicking Stay until your love is, Alive and Kicking." Winona was not the girl to lose her mind, but that was about to change.