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They say high school will be the best years of your life.

It’s a lie.

Lexie and Dylan used to be the best of friends. That all changed the summer before freshman year when their mothers skipped town together without explanation.

When the scandal broke and fueled the school rumor mill, it branded Lexie as an outcast. For three excruciatingly long years, she faced endless torment by heartless bullies in her class.

It wasn’t long after his mother left that Dylan ran headlong into a slippery slope of self-destruction. As he rose to the top of the social ladder, he turned his back on Lexie and used bitter resentment to hide his pain.

When the two are forced to spend the summer together, tensions run high, but emotions run higher as the former best friends struggle to navigate the uneasy months ahead. But even if Lexie and Dylan can find their way back to each other, can either learn to forgive their mothers when the truth behind their leaving comes out?

Genre: Young Adult

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Sweat beaded everywhere. Face, chest, back. It was like a sauna. Thunder rumbled in the distance and the wind picked up. After I closed the door, I scooped the first aid kit from the bottom of the stairs where it must have slid when I dropped it.

The sound of Lexie’s voice guided me into the kitchen where she stood at the sink with her phone tucked between her shoulder and her ear as she started to unwind the shirt from her hand.

Her harsh laugh stopped me from taking another step.

“I couldn’t tell you what St. Augustine looks like. I’ve been stuck in remodeling hell,” she said, sharply before adding, “Hang on, I have to put you on speaker.”

She took the phone from her shoulder, moved it to the window ledge, then propped it up. “So how’s your summer been so far?”

“What summer? The boss found out I had a lot of free time now, and he piled on the hours,” Heath answered, adding a dramatic sigh.

Lexie laughed again, though it sounded amused this time.

“How is that funny? You get sand and sun. I get florescent lighting and rude customers,” Heath grumbled.

“Hey, I’m working, too. Besides, weren’t you the one who was complaining about needing more money?”

“Yeah, well, I didn’t mean I wanted to work my entire summer away,” he said.

“How’s everything else?”

“Same. You?”

I wanted to back out of the room and give her a little privacy, but I couldn’t move because I didn’t want to miss her reply.

She shrugged as if he could see her. “Just working.”

“Lex… has it been bad?”

“No.” Her answer sounded strained.

“Uh-oh, spill it,” Heath said.

Her light tone was clearly forced when she said, “There’s nothing to spill, dummy.”

“Lex, I know you. I know you better than almost anyone. What’s up?”

“It’s nothing, really. Just different… ya know?” she answered.

Heath sighed. “I know. But hey, look at it this way… you don’t have to deal with the assholes while you’re there. At least you get a break from here. Damn it, I gotta go. My lunch break is over. Talk to you soon?”

Her head bobbed. “Yeah, of course. You call me, though, since your schedule is so busy.”

“I will. Take care, Lex. And try to have a little fun. I want a full report on St. Augustine when I call you again. Bye!”

The phone disconnected, but I didn’t move until Lexie turned the cold tap on the sink. “Fun. Yeah, right.”

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Under Northern Lights

The Six Series, Book 6

In the coastal city of Nome, under the northern lights, sets exactly the right location for a government-funded secret sector of Cole Enterprise. But that’s not all Alaska has to offer. Amongst the natives is an unsuspecting woman who has been hand selected to join the undercover operation.

After his abrupt departure from Haiti, Eli Bennet never thought he’d see Nova again. The idea of recruiting her as a team medic excited him. There’s only one minor problem… he has no idea how to approach her.

Nova McCarty knew taking care of her grandmother wouldn’t be easy. Noni’s memory has fizzled to the point where it’s no longer safe for her to live alone. Bumping into Eli was the last thing Nova expected after returning home. But there he was as if she’d pulled him out of her dreams, offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

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All We Are

Book 5 of The Six Series

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Life hasn’t been the same since returning from Barbados. Josh has fallen. Hard. Unable to shake the feelings Ella stirred up in him, he retreats further into himself. He can’t tell her how he feels, because even if he did, it wouldn’t change the fact that she’s married.

Complicated is an understatement for Ella as she works through her own personal hell after finding out her dead husband is, in fact, alive and in hiding again. But life, and work, must go on.

An undercover job on a four-week cruise should be an easy mission for the Cole Enterprise operatives. Unfortunately, the client is one of Ella’s childhood friends, which leaves the pair wishing they’d come up with something other than being engaged as their cover. Playing the part may just hurt them both.

Falling in love is never easy. In fact, it can sometimes be downright painful. No strangers to pain, Josh and Ella find themselves at the crossroads of duty and love. Lines will be blurred. Hearts will be broken. And all that they are will be tested.

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Now Available: What It Takes by Sonya Loveday

Title: What It Takes

Author: Sonya Loveday

Genre: Contemporary Romance with a little Western Flair.

Release Date: May 18th, 2018

Gracen Lowell is on the hunt for a man—but not just any man. He has to be ‘the one’. Her only problem is that no one she’s dated has ever measured up to the charming qualities of her best friend.

Slade Owens knows no matter how much he loves Gracen, he’ll never be what she’s looking for. And he dang sure isn’t going to stick around to watch her fall in love with someone else. Slade leaving the Owens’ family farm for an out-of-state job should put enough distance between the two to allow him to move on with his life and Gracen to search for her happily-ever-after.

Gracen knows asking him to stay isn’t fair. Slade thinks leaving her behind is the only thing to do. Inexplicably drawn together, the best friends must decide if they have what it takes to own up to their feelings… before it’s too late.

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Excerpt

“You coming?” he called to me from the porch. Both our bags were slung over one shoulder and Lucy, tail thumping against the worn boards, was sitting by his feet.

They were a picture, the two of them. Man and beast. My man and my beast, even if only in my dreams, I thought, catching the door handle and getting out of the truck as Slade made his way inside.

Closing my eyes, I pretended I was home and he was mine. He’d welcome me in at the front door with a kiss hot enough to sear my lips and melt me to the floor. We’d make it as far as the rustic living room before shedding clothes behind us in a trail to the bedroom.

I shook my head to clear it. That same moment had flashed through my thoughts so many times before.

Like auto play.

Before I could make it to the porch steps, Slade came back out. He caught hold of the door casing and stretched forward. My knees wobbled when his eyes met mine.

“It’s like coming home, every time we come here,” he said.

My steps faltered at his words. “It’s special… this place. You can feel it.” My fingers dipped and swayed against the slight breeze that flitted through the trees.

There was something extraordinary about it, but nothing I could physically point out. It was more like a feeling. A welcoming. Like it was a haven that spoke to something deep inside me.

Lucy poked her nose past Slade, panting with a huge doggy grin. He didn’t look down at her.

“Are you planning to stay out there the whole time?” he asked. There was something different in the way he gazed at me. I couldn’t quite put my finger on, but it almost felt like something more.

“Can’t really go inside when you’re standing in the doorway.” I smirked at him, trying not to show my confusion.

“Tell me something, Gracen. And be honest,” he said, unmoving.

Nervous energy shot through me, every single point of awareness standing on end. There was a look in his eyes I thought I’d glimpsed a few times before, but it had always been gone as quick as it came. I’d always brushed it off as my imagination, conjured up because I wanted it so bad. But this time, there was no mistaking it. It held promises unspoken. Secrets long buried.

I could feel the pulse at my neck hammering as if my heart had dislodged itself and was working its way up and out. My arms tingled as if my skin were made of wildly flapping butterfly wings, and my stomach  twisted  around  a giant  rock  of something molten that emptied itself down into my legs. The two halves of my body were at war with one another—one wanted to fly away, the other to sink into the ground.

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