Ally thought saying yes to Josh would make things simple. Instead, everything gets dangerous fast. -- Ally comes home from vacation torn between two boys: Chris, the one she's secretly wanted for over a year... and Josh, her childhood best friend who asked her out first. Wanting to stop the back-and-forth and finally choose someone, Ally says yes to Josh - hoping it'll lead to everything she's always imagined. At first, it does. Until it doesn't. Josh has a baby on the way with another girl - the result of cheating and choices he can't outrun. Tension rises fast, and just as Ally starts questioning everything... she discovers she's pregnant too. Now Josh is facing the pressure of two children before he's even seventeen, and the stress sends him spiraling into drugs. The boy Ally grew up loving disappears into someone unpredictable, angry, and dangerous. One night, when he's high, Josh crosses a line Ally never saw coming. And suddenly she's sixteen, pregnant, and trapped in a reality she never chose. She thought she was choosing love. She didn't realize she was stepping into danger. Book 1 of the Rebel Heart series Trigger Warnings: physical abuse, verbal abuse, drug use, teen pregnancy

WARNING: , MATURE LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE, CRIME, MENTION OF SELF HARM, MURDER, AND USE OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE. TROPES: FRIENDS TO LOVERS, PREGNANCY. RECOMMENDED 13+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- This story takes place in the year 2007, In the small town of Saranac Lake, New York. Troy Harvin is a 17 year old boy from the nice part of town, and a good family with hidden secrets. His mother is an early retired surgeon due to a ligament injury that completely ruined the function of her right hand, a little brother who Troy spent most of his teenage years taking care of and a dad who ran out on them when Troy was 12 after the passing of his sister. He's a humorous, passionate, kind delinquent with a good heart, and he always felt like he never fit in anywhere, until he met her. Lyric Sterling, an 18 year old recovering drug addict and mother to a 6 year old little girl who is biologically her sister. She is honest, caring, and intelligent but reckless. She came from a big family with lots of siblings that is now spread out due to her mother, a dangerous woman and gang leader who Lyric has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid. Lyric and Troy instantly find a familiarity in each other and they quickly fall into friendship, which then quickly develops further into what Troy would call love. He fell head over heels for her without any control, and now he has to deal with the consequences of falling in love with his best friend, and not being able to have her. Little did Lyric know that the man that became her best friend who taught her how to trust again would also be the one to coax her heart back open.

She escaped the danger. Now she has to survive everything it left behind. -- After the fight that changed everything, sixteen-year-old Ally loses her baby and Josh is sent to jail for the summer. Ben gives her a rental house so she can finally feel safe, and Chris moves in with her immediately-the boy she originally wanted, the boy who refuses to let her heal alone. But safety doesn't erase trauma. Leaving the Smith house breaks her heart. It was the safest place she ever lived, and she misses Mr. Jason every day. Still, the memories and nightmares make it impossible to stay in the neighborhood where everything happened. Then comes the secret she never meant to share. Chris has been coping in his own dangerous ways for years, and when Ally catches him, hurting and desperate to numb her grief, she pressures him into letting her try it too. What starts as a way to escape becomes a private struggle they face together-one that no one else sees when they look at their seemingly perfect relationship. Meanwhile, Ally's mother files for custody out of spite, convinced getting remarried will fix everything. Mrs. Kim refuses to accept who Josh has become. Ally files for emancipation and Ben steps in without blinking. Nobody expects him to win-but he does. For the first time, Ally has people choosing her. For the first time, she isn't alone. But Josh's obsession doesn't fade, even from jail. And healing gets harder when the past refuses to stay quiet. She survived the danger. Now she has to survive the aftermath. Book 2 of the Rebel Heart series Trigger Warnings: abuse, trauma, child loss, addiction, toxic family dynamics

Jenna Myers starts out with the kind of life most girls would envy-sweet boyfriend, loving family, predictable routines in a quiet Florida town. It's so perfect it's boring. But boredom doesn't last. After her newborn brother dies from SIDS, Jenna's world collapses. Her grief pulls her straight into the orbit of her cousin Tessa-who drags her into cocaine, all-nighters, and eventually court-ordered rehab. Months later, Jenna gets caught and ends up in the same facility, stuck in the same destructive cycle. Rehab doesn't save them. It traps them together long enough to get pregnant. So they run. From Florida to California, the girls survive off prostitution, drugs, strangers, and whatever numbness they can find. They fall in with Parker and his crew, drifting from state to state until Jenna ends up married just to stay alive. But chaos doesn't slow down-Tessa loses her baby, the crew abandons them, and a car accident takes Tessa's life before Jenna can stop it. Then another crash kills Parker and leaves Jenna pregnant and alone, with nothing left but the one place she's been running from: Home. The cure for boredom turned out to be chaos-addictive, dangerous, and nearly deadly. ⚠️ Content Warnings: This story contains: drug use & addiction cocaine use teen pregnancy prostitution homelessnes death (including infant loss, car accidents) grief & trauma graphic emotional distress unsafe situations involving minors Reader discretion is strongly advised.

Angela moves to Strawberry after a devastating divorce in order to invest in an old hotel in Strawberry. The historic hotel has so much going for it, but the previous owners let it go. With the help of her carpenter brother, Angela works to bring the space back to life and in the process begins to repair her own. Harrison is one of the many city employees let go after massive budget cuts. He ends up landing a job as captain of the fire department in the small town where his cousin grew up. He was under the impression the city was a sleepy one, but one stubborn hotel owner with a penchant for home projects tends to keep him on his toes. He might be used to rescue missions, but he certainly doesn't expect to be rescued himself.