I meet him at the right time. Or a completely wrong one, depending on the perspective you look from. I am not the one to fall head over heels in love with someone and he is not the guy someone should even fall in love with. But there are all the witty comebacks, the unplanned meetings at the bar, the rides on his motorcycle, all the laughs we share before the morning ... It does something to both of us. It changes us to the extent where we suddenly can't live without all of this. He is not a good guy. He's as bad as it gets. But he's perfect for me. I want to believe our story is a modern fairy tale with a more realistic ending. You won't get the princess-prince bullshit from me. You'll get it how it is with no sugar-coating. I was no princess and he was no prince, yet we still had something beautiful going on. For a while, at least.

*Book One* Every bad boy wants a good girl that can be bad only for him... And every good girl wants a bad boy who will be good only for her. Katherine Wilder is innocent and unsure of herself, and is hoping that a summer under the sun with her free-spirited Aunt Shelly will help her figure out who she really is. The Dalton brothers come home to stay with their parents each summer, and Katherine is intrigued by the two men that are so very different. Thomas is kind and tries to make Katherine see herself the way the world does, but Beau is mysterious and threatens to awaken something inside her that she never even knew existed. For Katherine, choosing between the light and dark may be the hardest decision she ever has to make. BOOK ONE IN THE AWAKENED SERIES

"You're scared of the way I make you feel because you don't want to feel anything." High school had always been perfect for Ella Marie, she lead her peers as class president and cheered on her fellow classmates as team captain. Ella had two amazing best friends and an incredible boyfriend who had aspirations and dreams as infinite as hers. Until one day when Ella receives a call stating her boyfriend Wyatt had just been in a fatal car accident. Wyatt's long time friend Hero mysteriously enters the picture. Ella starts to question everything she once thought she new about him and everything she once thought she new about love. Hero protects Ella from destroying her life abusing alcohol and drugs. This leads to a friendship they never thought was possible. It could even lead them to fall in love. But as time goes on Ella learns the harmful truth about Hero, he doesn't believe in love. * Some chapters will contain the use of sexual content and strong language Ranking - #176 teen fiction 04/26/19

"You like this, don't you?" Sam grins, running his tongue over his lip ring. "You're turned on by it." "Please," I wave my hand in dismissal. "You are," he accuses, his voice light. He does it again. I can't look away. "Stop." "Why should I? Little Miss 'I hate everyone at Ryder' really does find me irresistible. Who am I to deny her?" Sam's voice has something of an edge to it and my eyes snap to his. "'Little miss 'I hate everyone at Ryder', huh?" I ignore the second part of his jab. "That's right." I lean against my wardrobe, crossing my arms over my chest. "There's only a few people at Ryder I really can't stand, and you're at the top of my list." Sam's eyes narrow on me. "Is that so?" He turns from the mirror and takes a step in my direction. I refuse to back down, tilting my chin up to keep his gaze as he crowds into my space. His eyes hold mine until he's close enough that I can feel the warmth of his breath over my cheeks and his focus shifts to my mouth. He runs his tongue over the lip ring again, and I feel my own lips part slightly as he does it, my breath coming a little faster. My stomach is pulsing with a mix of nervousness and something I'm not totally ready to admit to myself. ---- Logan Grey's a 16 year-old girl with a penchant for Bob Dylan and running long distances. When her father dies suddenly, she and her best friend come up with a scheme to keep her from moving to her grandparents' Ohio estate: two years of boarding at her Connecticut hometown's highly renowned prep school. But a fluke lands Logan in a room with Ryder Academy's hottest, baddest boy and it's pretty obvious they're not going to get along. At least until Sam Evans and his sexy-as-hell lip ring saunter into her life, upending everything she thought she knew. [This story contains strong language and sexual content. You've been warned!]