Lucy: There is a love so fierce it cannot be measured. A heart so strong it will never slow. There is a promise so sure it can never lie. He promised me that love forever. Even when it wasn't enough.Cameron: Forever. Everlasting. Eternal. There is no measure of time. No sounds of the ticking of a clock. Just the rising and falling of the sun, and our own sense of forever. But our forever isn't always.Contains mature themes.

Logan: They say that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. For every choice you make there are rewards or consequences. It was my choice to walk away the first time. And my choice to chase her the second. But sometimes you don't get a choice, and all you get are the consequences.Amanda: They say that being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Unless that someone is Logan Matthews. Because lo...

We live in a world of darkness and shadows, where monsters hide and aim to ruin. And they did. They ruined us and turned our dreams into nightmares. But now we're back. And we're fighting. Not just for us, or for each other, but for our light.Contains mature themes.

Chloe has one plan for the future, and one plan only: the road. She’s made a promise to herself: don’t let anyone in, and don’t let anyone love her. She’s learned the hard way what happens if she breaks her rules. So she’s focused on being invisible and waiting until she can set out on the road—her dream of freedom, at least for a little while.Blake Hunter is a basketball star who has it all—everything about him looks perfect to those on the other side of his protective walls. He c...

When Mikayla imagined her prom night, she envisioned a fairy-tale evening full of romance. So when betrayal and tragedy come in quick succession, Mikayla is completely destroyed. Suddenly, everything she loved and everyone she relied on are tragically, irrevocably gone.Jake, a handsome boy she just met, happens to witness her loss. With no one to turn to, Mikayla is forced to depend on this near stranger and his family, and he in turn is determined to take care of her. But Mikayla—...

Riley: I'm grateful he showed up on my doorstep, pissed off and angry at the world.If he hadn't, I wouldn't be here. And I don't just mean here on this journey with him.I mean here, in this world.Dylan: I wonder what events in all our lives—hers included—are the turning points, the points where we determine that the fear of our pasts and the uncertainty of our futures are greater than our need for happiness?Here. Now. While time and everythin...

Ava Diaz needs saving.She just doesn't know it yet.Just like she doesn't know a thing about the boy she sits next to on the first day of senior year.He thinks she's a brat. She thinks he's entitled.Maybe first impressions don't always last . . .Because Connor Ledger's about to save her. He just doesn't know why.Contains mature themes.

There are no more goodnight kisses.No knocks on windows. No lengthy text messages. No late-night phone calls.And no game day balloons. There's just Connor. And Ava.Existing in a world filled with nothing but heartache.While searching the darkness for glimmers of hope.Because with hope, comes magic. And magic is forever.Contains mature themes.

Business academia offers an excellent entrepreneurial foundation. Then reality sets in.This book bridges the gap between academia and real business, to counsel by example, and to deliver timely, actionable recommendations to capitalize on opportunities, or to sidestep hidden business grenades.Advice is best delivered by those who have successfully walked the entrepreneurial trail, but not without incurring some scars along the way. That’s us.For the university instr...

Is your company spending too much time on strategy development—with too little to show for it?If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles (featuring “What Is Strategy?” by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy will i...

Why customer retention is the new acquisitionIf there's anything the recession of 2009 taught us, it was the importance of investing in our customers, but when was this any different? So says Joseph Jaffe, bestselling author of Life After the 30-Second Spot and Join the Conversation, and a leading expert and thought leader on new media and social media. In most businesses, it costs roughly five-to-ten times more to acquire a new customer than it does to retain an ...

Traditional retail is becoming increasingly volatile and challenged as a business model. Brick-and-mortar has shifted to online, while online is shifting into pop-up storefronts. Virtual stores in subway platforms and airports are offering new levels of convenience for harried commuters. High Street and Main Street are becoming the stuff of nostalgia. The Big Box is losing ground to new models that attract consumers through their most-trusted assistant—the smartphone. What’s next? What’s t...