**My hands wrap around his neck and I tangle my fingers in his soft, brown hair and I pull him down, deepening the kiss, never wanting him to let go. Wow, this boy can kiss.
But soon, he pulls away. His blue eyes dart between my brown ones, and we both stand completely still.
"Um," I try to speak.
"Yeah," he says. All of a sudden, he does a total Eli thing. He smirks.
"What?" I ask.
"You're still blushing."
**Brooke Taylor is the girl that has it all. Well, everything except a mother. She died of breast cancer three years ago, leaving only Brooke, her father, and her brother who is also her best friend, Zeke.
It's summer vacation, and Brooke loves it. Except the part where Zeke is leaving to travel the world for a year. But when Brooke's car malfunctions on the way to the grocery store, she has to call for someone to help her. This is where she meets Eli. He's the typical brown haired, amazingly blue eyed boy that Brooke thinks is a total player.
Will Eli change her mind? Let's hope.
Because Brooke is the type of girl who doesn't believe in love. And Eli is determined to change this.
But just when Brooke thinks that she is falling for this boy, Eli shares a secret with her that changes everything.
Will she have the strength to let him go?
Aurora's life had always been about survival, each day a quiet battle against fear and pain. When her stepfather was finally arrested, she thought the fight was over. But leaving one dangerous world meant stepping into another-one she didn't fully understand.
Now, she's living with seven older brothers she barely knows, their lives a tangle of secrets and shadows they never speak of. Their house is loud, protective, and filled with rules she's afraid to break.
For Aurora, it's a new kind of survival. For her brothers, it's a chance to keep her safe-no matter what it takes.