"Ready or Not" is the follow-up book to "Take Two". Olivia Bowsher stumbled upon the truth after twenty five years- life as she knows it has been distorted and carefully planned by her family and late husband Jakob. Revelations of Jakob's clandestine affairs and threats provoke Olivia to question whether she and beloved dog Snuggles are safe. She questions everybody's motives, and Liv's once perfect relationship with older brother Will deteriorates. Everything is falling apart. Olivia unravels secrets with the help of her boyfriend Sean Ryan and her first love, police officer Chris Rollins. Can she trust anybody? Will Olivia ever know the whole truth? And who killed Jakob? ⚠️ Sexual scenes, adult situations, adult language.

Olivia Graham was twenty-two when she started a whirlwind romance with charismatic Jakob overseas. By age twenty-five, Liv was back home and checking off the widowed box on paperwork. With zero plans, Olivia and beloved dog Snuggles find themselves amongst a heap of disturbing secrets about Olivia's upbringing and who the hell Jakob was. Was his death an untimely accident? Police officer Chris Rollins, Olivia's childhood crush, made his way back into town less than a year before the accident. He and fellow officer Sean Ryan reluctantly broke the news to Olivia the night Jake died. Despite numerous complications, Chris's feelings for his old friend are hard to deny. One of those hiccups is warmhearted and annoyingly perfect Sean Ryan. Will Olivia and Chris both get a second chance at life and love? ⚠️ Warning: Sexual scenes, adult situations, and adult language. 18+ recommended. REVIEWS: "All this angst is killing me, but I love it."

𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐀𝐃𝐔𝐋𝐓 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐒𝐎𝐅𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐒 Newly engaged couple Sierra and Nick were eager to graduate college and move in together-finally starting their happily ever after. But life isn't as easy as they hoped. Sierra's best friend Brian warned her on the night Nick proposed that getting married so young was a mistake. Will they make it, or are they already doomed? This book is the second in the Second Chance series, picking up after Hold Me Close ends. Most chapters under 18-20 pages 𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐒: young marriage, trauma, first love, stalker, the power of family ******* Sierra Carr never imagined marriage as something she wanted. That was before her senior year of college-before Nick Garrett detonated her life-and joining his incredible family makes accepting Nick's marriage proposal a no-brainer decision. On the night of their engagement, Sierra's best friend Brian warned her getting married so young was a mistake, and they've barely spoken since. A once unbreakable friendship crumbled into the friends feigning indifference at every turn. When past trauma literally stalks back into Sierra's life, a wall forms between the couple. As independent people, Nick and Sierra aren't used to answering for their time and whereabouts. Everything they've built threatens to crumble.

𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃 on @Romance @YARomance @ContLit profile @TeenFiction 𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐒 Coming of age, winter romance, workplace, first love 𝐖𝐎𝐍 Contemporary Lit Romantics Award They had exchanged lingering glances, but nothing transpired until one night over a long shift at work, an innocent glass of water, and a dead car battery. Jim Garrett is reserved, kind, and harboring a bit of trauma from the year prior. Caroline Crabtree is fun-loving and the kind of girl you notice in the hallway. Caroline sparkles as she floats through a room on an imaginary breeze, holding Jim's heart on a string wherever she goes. Jim is wholly and irrevocably in love with her. He just has to talk to her first to make sure. This short story prequel to the Second Chance Series is the journey of how Jim and Caroline fell in love: late night phone calls, holiday traditions, and ditching class to kiss in the custodial closet.

Ariella never saw Mike like a brother; she only loved his goofball personality and flair for creativity. Mike never dreamed that bubbly and fierce Ariella would be interested in him. Once she confesses she's crushed on him for years, Mike staunchly refuses to accept this could be his reality. Is it too late for them to fall in love? *** Mike Morrison spends more than half of his time at his best friend Luke Garrett's house. His emotionally neglectful parents leaves him craving stability, and the Garett's love Mike like their own. Adorable Mike always has a joke and a serious talent for bringing the imaginative ideas swirling in his head to life with striking sketches. Luke might be Mike's brother, but Ariella Garrett has never been like Mike's sister. Bubbly and bright, she puts a smile on everybody's face with her cheerful personality and famous baked goods. As Mike prepares to leave for college, she confesses her feelings for him. She wants to date, but he maintains Ariella is too good for him. As time passes, he finds his friend harder to resist, but he's certain he will break her heart. Can the two find love before things completely fall apart? 𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐒: Redemption, friends to lovers, brother's best friend, found family. ******* "You know what?" I demand, spinning on my heel. "Need I remind you of how many times you left me?" He turns around, his jaw clenched. "We agreed to take time apart and see other people," he says, tears in his eyes. He wipes his eyes, and his voice breaks "Not fucking fall in love!" "I waited for you all summer!" I'm so upset I feel like shoving him. "You stopped responding." "Because I got sick of begging you to pay attention to me!" "So you decide to just forget everything we had?" ⚠️ Sexually mature scenes and language.

Luna Don't date a hockey player. Simple enough, right? Or at least, that's what I thought when I promised my father I would never date anyone from his team. Then I was assigned to tutor Vaughn Banks, LSU's broody and mysterious right winger. Vaughn is ultra-hot, ultra-tattooed-and ultra-forbidden. Problem is, he's also insanely funny, a secret softy, and the first guy who's been patient enough to break down the ten-foot walls around my heart. We tell everyone we're just friends, but we both know it's a lie. Between our stolen glances and secret sleepovers, it's only a matter of time before everyone else finds out, too. Vaughn When I learn that the gorgeous brunette I keep seeing around campus is Coach Ward's daughter, I make a point to stay away. Her father knows a few too many of my past sins, and the last thing he'd want is a guy with an arrest record dating his only daughter. My strategy works... until I start flunking calc, and Luna is assigned as my tutor. I sit across from her in the library three days per week, pretending I'm not falling for her like I've never fallen before. But when one moment of weakness changes everything, there's no more pretending-and there's no going back. Landing in the penalty box is the least of my worries. I have everything on the line, and this is a shot I can't afford to miss.

a series of phone calls between may and the misunderstood ⇝ ❝you little stalker! i am going to ask you think one last time, who are you and why are you calling me?❞ ❝i'm the misunderstood and this little stalker just needs someone to understand❞ dialogue story//© voidann-

"I think you should stop being so mean to me, Zahed." "Why would I ever do that?" Aryan grins, a bright, wicked thing. "Because I kiss you like this." • Mira Zahed and Aryan Shankar are at war. When her best friend and his cousin decide to fall in love, Mira and Aryan do the complete opposite. Neither of them can get rid of the other, bound together by their doe-eyed lovebird best friends for all eternity, so it appears. However, sooner or later, Mira and Aryan's rivalry extends past the biting brunches and hot glares across the UCLA campus, to a series of kisses that burn like hellfire and three whispered words that glow brighter than the hot hatred they'd risen from. But even when Aryan kisses her like no one else, Mira still just might kill him one of these days. After all, they were at war. © archeronta 2020

"We can fall in love without destroying each other. We can fall in love without having to change. But the thing is you're too stubborn and I'm too afraid. In the end, we'll only erupt into flames." Hollyn Mitchell always dreamt of having the perfect life: the perfect job, the perfect guy and the perfect home and for awhile she had all of this. However, what she didn't expect was for her life to be turned upside down in the blink of an eye. With a hardened heart and her feisty attitude, she has to find a way to support her younger brother. She never in a million years would've imagined meeting her match. Sexy, brooding and very disciplined Kaiden Lann thinks he's got her all figured out: a typical city girl with not a care in the world. But what happens when her feistiness and his need for discipline collide? Do opposites really attract or will they burn each other far more than when they met?

*ONGOING Teagan Ruiz is a sophomore at Yale University, she loves her life in Connecticut. She's lived her whole life buried in books and getting good grades to make her parents happy. Independence was something she never felt until she went to college. She's reserved and always plans out her next move to make sure she never ends up in the wrong place. Except her next move didn't anticipate Carter. He took her off her path showing her so much more. Carter James is the best player on the Yale hockey team, he leads them to the Frozen Four just during his freshman year. When he's not being praised on the ice he's at parties going from girl to girl. He says his sole focus is hockey, that he doesn't have the time for a relationship. He has only ever wanted hockey but what happens when he wants her? Now, what happens when Teagan befriends the known Carter James? It was his idea to be friends and Teagan had no problem with that. She wasn't planning to be another notch on his bedpost. He shows her a path where she doesn't plan anything, but instead of her falling for him. It's him falling for her. Are his priorities still what they were? Highest Ranking: #1 - collegelovestory - 1/06/2021 #1 - yale - 4/16/2021 #8 - player - 2/9/2021 #16 - collegeromance - 10/29/2020 #21 - university - 2/4/2021 #43 - college - 2/4/2021 #60 - hockey - 12/17/2020 #76 - sportsromance - 12/17/2020