Emerson
I've never really felt like I was missing out, I feel like I'm living my life to the best of my ability. I've got a best friend who i'd just die without, I had a boyfriend but ended that for my own sanity, i've got a big envelope accepting me in to my first choice university and i somehow managed to create a small community online of people who love my meticulous planning and stationary hoarding lifestyle. The one thing I could have never planned for was her, Nova came crashing into my life when I least expected it and brought with her the one thing I was missing, passion. With her I don't have to hide; she gets me mind, body and soul like no person ever has.
Nova
If you told me I would be spending my summer not in New York but in Nowheresville Carolina I would have laughed in your face and told you, your out of your fucking mind. Yet here I am visiting the only real family I have left. All I wanted was a break away from the pressure I put myself under at Uni and to spend time with my cousin before he goes half a world away to school. If you told me I would fall in love while I was here I would have laughed even harder. Emerson comes into my life with her binders and planners and finds a way to file herself into my heart. Now she's got me saying shit like that, god what has this summer done to me.
Summer, a time for fun with friends, lounging on beaches, maybe even a romance or two that is movie worthy. But what happens when one summer you find your soulmate? What happens when the sun goes down and summer ends but your heart is still in the same place?
Would you change your whole future for them?
Would you lie, cheat and steal for them?
Would you risk your life for them?
Lori's just looking for little time to focus on work after a bad breakup - until a steamy encounter with a sensual stranger leaves her looking for much, much more.
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Ben Stone is used to getting exactly what he wants. Being a successful businessman and known playboy allows him his pick of beautiful women. He loves them all - but just for a night. That is, until he seduces Lori at her friend's bachelorette party and can't get her out of his head. For Lori, men do not make the short list of important things in her life - but then again, she hasn't met Ben before. When their relationship must be kept a secret they're forced to make a choice: prior obligations, or their burning flame?
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