I've lived my life exactly how I've wanted to, chasing fires. Until the best night of my life made me rethink the word responsibility. Suddenly, risking my life jumping out of planes into forest fires wasn't worth the chance of not coming home. Especially when I have two little girls waiting on me.So I retired.Bought a house, learned how to change a diaper, and have been trying to change that life I thought I wanted into the one I have and desperately want to keep.B...

I fell in love with the girl next door in high school. She's been sleeping in my bed since we were teens, and no one knew a thing. Our parents are so close; they're family, and that's the problem.We're viewed as family and, therefore, can't ever be together, or at least that's what she's using as an excuse. Her determination to fight our love has caused a drift that the club is starting to notice.We've been attached at the hip since we could walk, and now we can barely stan...

Five years ago, I found the missing piece of my soul.I returned to Roanoke, VA, with a hole in my chest that only my missing sister could fill. She was the reason I joined the club, and after years of looking, my brothers delivered on their promise to help me rescue her.What I found when I arrived there was so much more.Leaving and going home to help my sister regain a life stolen from her was the only mission I had left, and now that it was complete, I realized I h...

You know, the thing about being a legacy is that everyone expects you to do better. I've always just wanted to be me until my whole identity was stolen during one failed run.Now, my need to be the best is driven by revenge.Unfortunately for her, her old man died before I could get to him. She'll need to settle his debt to me now and it's a hefty one. Little Miss Socialite has no idea what her Daddy was really all about.It'll be my pleasure to teach her.Kiss ...

More than anything else, she wanted romance. That thing that made a man do extraordinary things for a woman just because he loved her.She wanted, for one moment, to live the life of novels and fairytales.Wealthy businessman, Ludwig Fabrinni, has a closet full of expensive suits, not to mention a cushy job and anything else money can buy. The director at a well-known publication company, he's surrounded himself with textbooks, encyclopedias...

Fame does something to a young man's mind that no other experience can possibly do to teach him about humility. Why, you ask? Cause fame is fickle. One day you have it, and the next you're just another broken cowboy on the rodeo circuit of life.When you're barely legal to drink, having that ripped away from you is a bitter pill to swallow.Having a nurse whose words cut deeper than any wounded pride could seems to be the highlight of my days now. Until her mouth gets her fir...

She pulled her head back, and the expression she gave him spiraled down into his shoes. He'd blown it … He'd assumed once he held her close, she'd give in to the attraction growing between them.Yet there it was on her face. She wasn't after his money or his status. It'd take way more than either one of those to win her over.Millionaire playboy Atlas Bellamy never met a woman he couldn't have. Until Meghan Moralez. An accomplished doctor wi...

Jordan Williams is a Motivational Awareness Teacher, Certified Life Coach, and Motivational Speaker who strives to transform, elevate, and empower clients with his Motivational Awareness Guide, Awareness Power Principles, and 4 Quadrant Living strategies.Williams is a transformative agent who motivates clients by assisting them in reaching their fullest potential, personally and professionally.In his book, The Secret of Awareness, Williams brings a passion for Awareness, se...

God-Almighty, kissing Jackson again was a fine thing.Jackson Phillips moved in next door to Lucy MacKenzie, bringing with him a childhood memory of summer came and a dare. Kiss Jackson Phillips.But what a fourteen-year-old would do to impress her friends changes in three years. Plus, Jackson isn't the same as he was. He's taller, more handsome … and far wiser.Clean Reads for teens by best-selling author, SUZANNE D. ...

With moments of dry humor, this new story collection by award-winning author Gregory D. Williams provides a glimpse of boyhood and its lingering effects inside the man. The gentle irony and characters’ keenly observed dilemmas reflect life in Arizona, baking in the dry heat of the Sonoran desert.When a Little League player takes direction from the team’s star female player, he learns about “rounding the bases.”Seeking revenge, two boys set up a sting operation to catch a ne...

This was pointless. I didn't love Roman Avery, yet I wanted to kiss Roman Avery. I'd bought a swimsuit to impress Roger Keen, but all I could think of was what Roman Avery would say about it. Now, Roman Avery said he had a date, and I was actually … actually … jealous. It smacked me in the face.Stupid because he had a right to see whoever he wanted, and like he'd said, we were only friends.------The best way Coralee Pirtle can think of to be noticed by Roger Keen, i...

He didn't kiss her, and she didn't force him to, but the desire was there for both of them. It had nothing to do with Walton, her failed wedding, or even being cooped up together in the hotel room. It was watching him sail and admiring him as a man. It was crying on his shoulder because she felt flawed. It was the hunger in his eye, knowing he'd seen her in her underthings, and though he'd done the right thing, he wouldn't forget it.Brielle Hensley had her future all plann...