It's easy to say that you don't care what other people think but it's so hard to play deaf when you're the hot topic of high school gossip. Addie had to learn that lesson the hard way. When the truth spread that she was physically abused by her first love Nate, the whole school didn't believe her. Not being able to take the pressure, she resorted to drastic measures. A year after her failed suicide, she begins college anew promising herself to find real friendships and to avoid love all together. Till she meets Julian. Will she make real friends this time around? Will Nate ever take his revenge? And as she grows out of her steel shell, what happens when she finds out that Julian is Nate's estranged brother? That is, if she ever finds out.

Nicky is a waitress. When she starts working in a cafe, she meets a mysterious fascinating blind man. She is immediately drown to him and makes it her goal to learn everything about him. What will happen when she finds out his story....

"You have a couple options here, abort, adopt, or keep the baby." I mentally scoffed at how inconsiderate the doctor was being, considering he wasn't facing me and his face was still emerged in my file. "Can I have some time to think?" The doctor mumbled something and I strained my ears to hear. "Excuse me, sir?" "I said, make an appointment with the front desk. Have a nice day Ms. Lawrence." The doctor got up and walked out of the room and I sat there skocked for a little bit. I was actually pregnant. A child was growing inside of me, but I couldn't support it. I was barely survivng with my best friend Holli and a baby was going to be our downfall, and I definitely wouldn't kill my baby. That wasn't even a choice for me. "Adoption it is." I mumbled as I tugged my blouse down and left the bland OBGYN office. *** Micah Lawrence is struggling. Her bills are almost overdue and her grades are slipping, but the kicker is finding out she's pregnant. She's at the end of her road and has no clue what to do anymore, but maybe there is still hope. She meets Michael Tucker at the office one day and that is the day here life changes. Can Micah finally overcome her dilemma and find a good family for her baby? Or will the 9 month attachment be too difficult for her to let her baby go? (** means its edited)

Everyone dies, someday and somehow. Sixteen year old Allie is dying of cancer. More than anything, she wants to be a normal teenager. But pretending is exhausting and the lies pile up. With a chance at first love and true friends, Allie must choose between maintaining the pretence or risking everything with the truth. Can Allie open her heart and embrace love? If you liked 'The Fault in Our Stars' by John Green or 'A Walk to Remember' by Nicholas Sparks, you'll love Awakening to Life.

Peyton has no family. Her parents died in a car crash, her grandparents died a while ago and she's an only child. She's been to at least fifteen funerals in her lifetime, for family but now she only has one more funeral to go to. Her own.

Grace and Kya always do everything together, and nothing can get in the way of their friendship. But then Levi comes along...just as things are starting to shift. The girls have paintball and they have their other best friend James, but something is wrong between James and Kya too, and Grace needs to figure out what it is. Grace has always been there for Kya. Only Grace knows what Kya's been through. Besides, Kya keeps life exciting-pulling Grace into things she'd never dare to do on her own. But daring is starting to turn dangerous. And Grace has to decide how far she can go ...before she ends up losing everything else.

How many times have you heard somebody's first kiss went smoothly? Exactly. Ann's didn't turn out the way she imagined. Her boyfriend, Maverick, then gives her a surprise, causing her life to turn all around. In her journey she encounters everything she had least expected. Follow Ann's journey that surely is the 'Experience' of a lifetime in my book, My Experience.

Ashley, a teenager with a secretly crazy boyfriend, has to literally fight for her life when she finds out her boyfriend at the time, Austin is cheating on her. Drake Sanders, Ashley's enemy, turns into something different when she runs into him and tells him her problems. Drake thinks that being friends with benefits would be cool and that having a friend to dominate would be a great opportunity, as he is one of the biggest players she knows, and he just likes to have sex with girls. But once he starts feeling something different, problems unravel and things get a bit crazy. Who knew people could go so crazy, even to kill one they once "loved"

WOULD YOU PUT YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE TO BE NORMAL? Diagnosed with a rare and untreatable heart condition, Scarlet has come to terms with the fact that she's going to die. Literally of a broken heart. It could be tomorrow, or it could be next year. But the clock is ticking... All Scarlet asks is for a chance to attend high school—even if just for a week-a chance to be just like everyone else. But Scarlet can feel her heart beating out of control with each slammed locker and vicious taunt. Is this normal? Really? Yet there's more going on than she knows. And finding out the truth might just kill Scarlet before her heart does... "Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak meets Kathy Reichs' Virals." —bookseller Jill Moore, Square Books Jr. “[A] suspenseful thriller laced with medical intrigue and coming-of-age triumph.” –Booklist “A chilling medical suspense story—Lyons’ specialty—expertly entwines with teen-oriented family drama and the eye-rolling social hierarchy that is high school...Not just for teens.” – RT Book Reviews, Top Pick! * I will be posting new chapters of Broken every TUESDAY as a run-up to its hardcover release in November. Enjoy! About CJ: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twenty-one novels, former pediatric ER doctor CJ Lyons has lived the life she writes about in her cutting edge Thrillers with Heart. Winner of the International Thriller Writers’ coveted Thriller Award, CJ has been called a "master within the genre" (Pittsburgh Magazine) and her work has been praised as "breathtakingly fast-paced" and "riveting" (Publishers Weekly) with "characters with beating hearts and three dimensions" (Newsday). Learn more about CJ's Thrillers with Heart at www.CJLyons.net