Two simple words hold the truth of our love: wait and hope.OliviaRhys Garrett—recent high school graduate, ex-captain of the basketball team, and my brother's rival both on and off the court.Oh, and he's also the guy I just hit with my truck.Awesome.To be fair, he had it coming.Why else was he dressed in all black, in the middle of the night, if not to hide out amongst the darkness?Rhys

What started as a bet can only end in heartache.Moving to the middle of nowhere right before my senior year wasn't ideal. Then again, neither was my brother dying.The move was supposed to be a fresh start. A new town, a new school, a new mindset. Too bad my past indiscretions followed me.Enter Jace Rivera, the literal boy next door. Jace is loved by the town. Admired by his peers. Worshipped by his teammates. On the basketball court, he's a god amon...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...