B. Celeste

PLEASE NOTE: This novella is NO LONGER FOR SALE. Any copies found online or elsewhere are illegally pirated. I'll try getting some of the bonus content up on my website, but since Bloom Books owns the rights to the first book, this follow up short will no longer be for sale. xx B

When I decided to move across the country for college, I thought it’d be the perfect chance to reinvent myself. But then one party changed the course of my entire freshman year. And just when I think I’m about to drown in the foggy memories of my night spent partying at the football house, Daniel Bridges walks into my life. Lindon University’s wide receiver. A total flirt. And a total threat. Because he can help take away the memories I do remember from that night. What I don’t anticipate from the witty football player is the friendship we form as the months go on. Or how easy it is to fall for him as he teaches me how to trust again…and so much more.

For as long as I could remember, Theodore West was in my life as the support system I needed when my parents were too busy building our family’s future. He offered me shoes to dance on, a shoulder to absorb my tears, and the harsh reality of where my life was leading when I was at my lowest point. And when the future my parents planned derailed after a statewide scandal, I had no choice but to fantasize about one for myself that didn’t involve them. But Theo? He was always in it. My father’s best friend. The man who would undoubtedly end me if I didn’t end him first.

When I asked my best friend to run away with me at sixteen, I knew he’d say no.⁣ ⁣ He had football, an amazing family, and a happy home to go back to every day.⁣ ⁣ So the night I snuck out of his bedroom window after hugging him goodbye, I’d accepted I’d probably never see him again.⁣ ⁣ Then we both wind up at Lindon University four years later.⁣ ⁣ I’m barely picking up the pieces of my life when the boy whose initials I used to doodle hearts around approaches me at work.⁣ ⁣ Aiden Griffith. Lindon U’s star tight end.⁣ ⁣ Still as attractive. Still as dedicated.⁣ ⁣ With rumors of him being drafted to the NFL coming to fruition, I know it’s only a matter of time before we have to say goodbye again.⁣ ⁣ But he can’t seem to let me go no matter what I say, and I don’t think I want him to.⁣

Blake Karr, a twenty-four-year-old single mother of one, has a secret that few people know about—only her, and her three male roommates. Finn Wilder. Brodie Adams. Dante Harris. But is her secret the only one kept within the four walls that they all share, or are they all hiding something behind closed doors?

I used his body to forget the pain until the line we drew was buried under muddied water.⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ I used to believe in three ⁣⁣⁣ That true love only existed once, heartbreak couldn’t kill you, and everything happened for a reason.⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ But if that were true, I never would have watched Daniel McCray get married to another woman, have a beautiful baby girl, and pass away before my very eyes.⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ Everything I believed was a lie.⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ Until I met them.⁣⁣⁣ ⁣

After Raine Copelin turns down her long-time boyfriend Caleb Anders’s marriage proposal, the two are barely speaking, barely coping as they enter graduate school at Lindon University. Caleb doesn’t understand what happened—their relationship has been picture-perfect since high school. He always imagined starting a family together, the same happily ever after his parents had. Until the day she broke his heart, he thought Raine wanted that, too. But Raine has her reasons. Her secrets. She knows she can’t give Caleb the future he wants, so she decides to let him go, no matter the price she has to pay. But when fresh tragedy sends Caleb spiraling back into Raine’s arms, the unanswered questions between them bring old feelings and new wounds to the surface. Fighting grief, lies, and fear, the two must figure out if their love ever truly ended, or if their uncertain futures might still include each other.

Stevie Foster thought her happy ever after would come easily after saying “I do” to her high school sweetheart at nineteen. But twelve years later, she finds herself divorced, settling into a new home, in a new town, with a new job as an elementary teacher trying to pick up the pieces as she goes. On top of struggling to cope with the future she always wanted versus the one she’s been dealt, she soon realizes that her new neighbor is a strict, stone-faced man she’s all too familiar with. Lieutenant Colonel Fletcher Miller. The man once in charge of her ex-husband’s unit. And as if the reminder across the street of what she lost wasn’t painful enough, she also becomes his young son’s teacher. A single dad. A divorcee. A second chance at love neither knew they’d get.

The first time Matthew Clearwater, a wide receiver for the Lindon U football team, saw the new, young athletic adviser Rachel Holloway, he was infatuated. And no amount of professional rejection could deter the shameless flirt despite the obvious rules against them.⁣ ⁣ And because of a scandal that rocked the school’s athletic department, new rules are set into stone that prohibits any type of relationship between students and faculty members that would cause more public relation nightmares for the university.⁣ ⁣ But that doesn’t stop the growing tensions or temptations between Matthew and Rachel over the years as they form a friendship that turns into so much more.⁣ ⁣ And when boundaries are crossed, the two have to decide how much they’re truly willing to risk for love.⁣

𝐀 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧, 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. I was twelve years old when I met one of the world’s hottest celebrities. Thirteen when I was welcomed into his family. Fourteen when I realized what his unconditional love felt like. Fifteen when he helped me figure out what hope was. And sixteen when my mother’s biggest lie changed our lives forever. I swore I would never be like the woman whose chronic lies impacted everybody around her, but then I’d be a hypocrite. Because three years after the truth came out, and I reunited with the boy whose innocent love had been taken from me, I realized I was living the biggest lie of all. The one where I pretended I wasn’t in love with Kyler Bishop.

I was twenty-one when I first met the sarcastic Australian rock star that took the world by storm with his witty charm. Twenty-two when I wrote a viral tabloid article on his bandmate to pay for the medicine that I needed for life. Twenty-three when I realized my dream job in California was destroying every moral I was raised to believe in. Twenty-four when I accepted that I might have to give up my west coast dreams to return home and admit defeat. And twenty-five when the lead singer of Violet Wonders comes crashing back into my life with an offer I’d be stupid to refuse. When he asks me to marry him, I think it’s a cruel joke to get back at me for everything I put his band through. But a signed marriage certificate gets us both benefits. He gets the press off his back, and I get health insurance and a place to stay. But the world doesn’t know the real Garrick Matthews like I do, and it’s impossible not to fall for the man behind the charade. We agree to stay together for two years before going our separate ways and never looking back. Unfortunately for me, it only takes months before I realize I love the man who will undoubtedly break my heart when all is said and done.

Forbidden Romance - Check. Cheating - Check. Brother's Best Friend - Check. Angst - Check. BLURB I fell in love with him when I was thirteen years old. He was older, mysterious, and unattainable. The guy I could never touch. Then one night changed everything for us. But there was one huge problem. He belonged to her.

*please note the age gap is 15 years *the female is 16 throughout the "relationship" *it is a standalone novel Age is just a number. Just like he's just a boy and I'm just a girl. Except that's not true, is it? Because fifteen may be a number, but it's bigger than that. Bigger than us. It's a number that separates us. An excuse that keeps us apart. But I'm not willing to give in until I get what I want. After all, how many other girls can bring a grown man to his knees with one little smile?

Our story is far from perfect, but there's not one risk I regret taking to get the girl. Not the judgment. Not the whispers. Not the stares. Because age is just a number, and we survived. Ollie and Charlie against the world. Except now ... there's Milo.

It happened in stages.⁣ My father left.⁣ My twin sister died of an incurable autoimmune disease.⁣ My mother started breaking down.⁣ Then I was diagnosed with the very thing that took my other half from me.⁣ That was when I realized Mama’s eyes turned gold when she cried.⁣ So I moved in with my father and his new family—new wife, new son, new stepbrother.⁣ Kaiden Monroe made me feel normal.⁣ Hated. Cared for. Loathed. And … loved.⁣ Somewhere along the way, I’d found solace in the boy with brooding eyes.⁣ But everything happens in stages.⁣ And nothing good ever lasts.⁣

What happens when you become the villain in your own love story? People say that you never forget your first love, which is probably why I never let go two years after walking away from mine. So, it’s no surprise that running into him again brought the same rush of emotions that tethered us together by a familiar, invisible bond. The problem with that connection? He’s not the only man in my life now. But no matter how many times I’ve told myself that I’ve moved on from the person that temptation taunts me with, I know it’s not the truth. Because one look is all it takes to realize I’ve never stopped loving Sebastian Kennedy. And not even the consequences now could get me to stop.