The story of when Lola met Joseph.

They always tell you the cute origin story, the one filled with romantic gestures and handsome but jaded boys going against all odds to get the girl because she's the one for him. They never tell you what happens after. How even though you're one hundred percent in it, he never truly is. How, while you're blissfully planning up, he's planning his way out and how, no matter how many times he tells you it can never be more, he's "too" messed up for that, that you will always dismiss it because you much rather hear him say "I love you." Man, was he good at saying I love you. I was the wide eyed innocent who believed his every word. Man, was I good at burying my head in the sand. And a year later, after the idiotic bad boy skipped out of my life, all I can say is, "Fu-" Book 1 of the Bad Hearts Series [completed] Book 2: Due To The Bad Girl [completed] Book 3: The Bad Boy vs The Bad Girl [completed] Book 4: The Not So Bad Boy [completed] Book 5: Undercover Bad Girl [completed] Book 6: The Broken Hearted Bad Boy [completed]

Nina felt a pair of eyes watching her. Warm, gilded brown, like the whiskey in her glass. That was how she met Roman Conway for the first time. Three years later, she meets him again, and she is pulled back into a past that cracks the surface of the seemingly perfect life she curated. ***** As Nina Jordan admires New York City from a rooftop, she seems content. She is surrounded by her closest friends, and Cameron - the man she is marrying. But when Nina goes to get a drink at the bar, she bumps into Roman Conway. To Roman, Nina looks different. Her signature curls have been pulled straight, and cut into a blunt bob, and there is a dark melancholy about her. The biggest change he is struck by is that she no longer looks at him the way she used to. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Cover designed by April Alforque