Ashley Elston

Sophie wants one thing for Christmas-a little freedom from her overprotective parents. So when they decide to spend Christmas in South Louisiana with her very pregnant older sister, Sophie is looking forward to some much needed private (read: make-out) time with her long-term boyfriend, Griffin. Except it turns out that Griffin wants a little freedom from their relationship. Cue devastation. Heartbroken, Sophie flees to her grandparents' house, where the rest of her boisterous extended family is gathered for the holiday. That's when her nonna devises a (not so) brilliant plan: Over the next ten days, Sophie will be set up on ten different blind dates by different family members. Like her sweet cousin Sara, who sets her up with a hot guy at an exclusive underground party. Or her crazy aunt Patrice, who signs Sophie up for a lead role in a living nativity. With a boy who barely reaches her shoulder. And a screaming baby. When Griffin turns up unexpectedly and begs for a second chance, Sophie feels more confused than ever. Because maybe, just maybe, she's started to have feelings for someone else . . . Someone who is definitely not available. This is going to be the worst Christmas break ever... or is it?

She’s been six different people in six different places: Madeline in Ohio, Isabelle in Missouri, Olivia in Kentucky . . . But now that she’s been transplanted to rural Louisiana, she has decided that this fake identity will be her last. Witness Protection has taken nearly everything from her. But for now, they’ve given her a new name, Megan Rose Jones, and a horrible hair color. For the past eight months, Meg has begged her father to answer one question: What on earth did he do – or see – that landed them in this god-awful mess? Meg has just about had it with all the Suits’ rules — and her dad’s silence. If he won’t help, it’s time she got some answers for herself. But Meg isn’t counting on Ethan Landry, an adorable Louisiana farm boy who’s too smart for his own good. He knows Meg is hiding something big. And it just might get both of them killed. As they embark on a perilous journey to free her family once and for all, Meg discovers that there’s only one rule that really matters — survival.

It's Senior Week, that magical in-between time after classes have ended but before graduation, chock-full of gimmicky theme parties, last-minute bonding, and family traditions. Olivia couldn't be more ready. Class salutatorian and confident in her future at LSU, she's poised to sail through to the next phase of her life. But when the tiny hiccup of an unsigned off-campus P.E. form puts Olivia in danger of not graduating at all, she has one week to set things straight without tipping off her very big and very nosy extended family. Volunteering to help at a local golf tournament should do it, but since Olivia's mom equipped her phone with a tracking app, there'll be no hiding the fact that she's at the golf course instead of all the graduation parties happening at the same time. Unless, that is, she can convince the Fab Four--her ride-or-die cousins and best friends Sophie, Charlie, and Wes--to trade phones with her as they go through the motions of playing Olivia for the week. Sure, certain members of the golf team are none too pleased with Olivia's sudden "passion" for the game. And sure, a very cute, very off-limits boy keeps popping up in Olivia's orbit. But she is focused! She has a schedule and a plan! Nothing can possibly go wrong . . . right?

Five went in. Four came out. No one knows what happened that morning at River Point. Five boys went hunting. Four came back. The boys won’t say who fired the shot that killed their friend; the evidence shows it could have been any one of them. Kate Marino’s senior year internship at the district attorney’s office isn’t exactly glamorous—more like an excuse to leave school early that looks good on college applications. Then the DA hands her boss, Mr. Stone, the biggest case her small town of Belle Terre has ever seen. The River Point Boys are all anyone can talk about. Despite their damning toxicology reports the morning of the accident, the DA wants the boys’ case swept under the rug. He owes his political office to their powerful families. Kate won’t let that happen. Digging up secrets without revealing her own is a dangerous line to walk; Kate has her own reasons for seeking justice for Grant. As she investigates with Stone, the aging prosecutor relying on Kate to see and hear what he cannot, she realizes that nothing about the case—or the boys—is what it seems. Grant wasn’t who she thought he was, and neither is Stone’s prime suspect. As Kate gets dangerously close to the truth, it becomes clear that the early morning accident might not have been an accident at all—and if Kate doesn’t uncover the true killer, more than one life could be on the line…including her own.

Owen Foster has never wanted for anything. Then his mother shows up at his elite New Orleans boarding school cradling a bombshell: his privileged life has been funded by stolen money. After using the family business, the single largest employer in his small Louisiana town, to embezzle millions and drain the employees' retirement accounts, Owen's father vanished without a trace, leaving Owen and his mother to deal with the fallout. Owen returns to Lake Cane to finish his senior year, where people he can barely remember despise him for his father's crimes. It's bad enough dealing with muttered insults and glares, but when Owen and his mother receive increasingly frightening threats from someone out for revenge, he knows he must get to the bottom of what really happened at Louisiana Frac--and the cryptic note his father sent him at his boarding school days before disappearing. Owen's only refuge is the sprawling, isolated pecan orchard he works at after school, owned by a man named Gus who has his own secrets--and in some ways seems to know Owen better than he knows himself. As Owen uncovers a terrible injustice that looms over the same Preacher Woods he's claimed as his own, he must face a shocking truth about his own past--and write a better future.

Sophie isi doreste un singur lucru de Craciun: sa scape cateva zile de sub supravegherea parintilor ei. Cand acestia se hotarasc sa plece in sudul Louisianei, Sophie ramane acasa, dorindu-si cu ardoare sa-si petreaca vremea doar cu iubitul ei, Griffin, care insa vrea o pauza in relatie. Distrusa, Sophie se duce la bunici, unde s-a adunat tot restul numeroasei lor familii. Iar bunica pune la cale un plan (nu tocmai) stralucit: in urmatoarele zece zile, Sophie va merge la zece intalniri aranjate de diversi membri ai familiei. Cand apare pe neasteptate Griffin si o implora sa-i mai acorde o sansa, Sophie este derutata. Pe motiv ca tocmai a inceput sa simta ceva pentru altcineva... O sa fie oare cea mai ingrozitoare vacanta de Craciun... sau poate ca nu? "Intr-o poveste amuzanta de dragoste, in care personajul principal ajunge sa aiba grija de catei pe un teren de hochei, sa se uite la un film porno la un cinema drive-in si sa o joace pe Fecioara Maria intr-o sceneta de scoala, Elston reflecta cu inteligenta personalitatile membrilor familiei prin partenerii pentru intalniri pe care ei ii aleg lui Sophie."- Publishers Weekly "Aceasta poveste de dragoste n-are nevoie de tema Craciunului ca sa convinga, insa atmosfera sarbatorilor ii ofera o sclipire in plus."- Booklist Ashley Elston este autoarea mai multor romane, printre care se numara The Rules for Disappearing (publicat in 2013 si finalist la categoria Cel mai bun roman Young Adult la International Thriller Writers Awards) si This Is Our Story (2016). A absolvit Arte Liberale la Universitatea statului Louisiana si, inainte sa se dedice exclusiv scrisului, a lucrat multi ani ca fotograf de nunti. Ashley Elston locuieste in Louisiana, impreuna cu sotul sau si cei trei fii ai lor.

Anna Boyd almost lost her life to get what she wanted most in the world: freedom. But just when it seems that her family has finally escaped Witness Protection, the illusion that Anna could resume a normal life comes crashing down. The deadly man Anna knows as Thomas is still on the loose, and now he's using her as a pawn in a dangerous game with the drug cartel determined to silence her forever. When Thomas and a mysterious masked man capture not only Anna but also her fragile younger sister and her boyfriend, Anna decides it's time to break all the rules-even if it means teaming up with the lesser of two evils. Anna will do whatever it takes to protect the people she loves and win her life back once and for all. But her true enemies are hidden in plain sight. Before long, Anna will learn that putting her trust in anyone may be the last mistake she ever makes.

Времето по Коледа е само за горещ шоколад и за любимите хора. Но какво се случва, когато лудото ти семейство решава да излекува разбитото ти сърце, изпращайки те на десет слепи срещи? Софи няма търпение да прекара повече време насаме с приятеля си Грифин. Но когато разбира, че той иска малко почивка и свобода от връзката им, тя търси утеха в къщата на баба си и дядо си, където останалата част от голямото им семейство са се събрали за празника. Тогава баба ѝ измисля блестящ (или може би не) план – през следващите десет дни София ще отиде на десет слепи срещи с различни кандидати, избрани от нейните роднини. Сладката ѝ братовчедка Сара ще я изпрати на среща с атрактивен колежанин. Леля ѝ Патрис ще я запише за водеща роля в пиеса за Рождество Христово, а кавалерът ѝ едва ще стига до рамото ѝ. И ще има истинско ревящо бебе. Когато Грифин се появява неочаквано и моли за втори шанс, Софи се чувства по-объркана от всякога. Защото може би тя е започнала да изпитва чувства към някой друг. Изглежда, това ще са най-лошите коледни празници. Или пък не?

Nors Sofijai jau septyniolika, jos tėvai pernelyg budriai saugo savo jaunėlę. Žinoma, ji myli tėvus, o tėvai TIKRAI myli ją, bet nuolatinis dėmesys ir rūpestis kartais priverčia merginą griebtis nedidelio melo ir gudrybių. Ypač tuomet, kai norisi bent kažkiek pabūti su savo vaikinu Grifinu. Visa laimė, kad per šias Kalėdas tėvai išvažiuoja pas Sofijos vyresnę seserį ir ji pagaliau galės nuo jų pailsėti. Ko Sofija nenumatė – kad Grifinas norės pailsėti nuo jos. Apstulbinta ir sugniuždyta mergina Kalėdoms išvažiuoja pas senelius, kur per šventes susirenka visa plati giminė – bene trisdešimt žmonių. Išvydusi savo mylimą anūkę ir išklausinėjusi, kas nutiko, senelė greitai sukurpia gelbėjimo planą: per artimiausias dešimt dienų Sofija nueis į dešimt aklų pasimatymų. O kandidatus šiems pasimatymams išrinks skirtingi giminės nariai. Nors ir purkštaudama bei priešindamasi, Sofija galų gale pasiduoda senelės įtikinėjimams ir kitą dieną išsiruošia į pirmąjį pasimatymą. Per artimiausias dešimt dienų nutiks visko: vieni vaikinai pasirodys neprasti, įdomūs ir malonūs, iš kitų pasimatymų Sofijai teks bėgti. Netikėtai apsireikš ir pats Grifinas, mėgindamas susigrąžinti prarastus santykius. Kad ir kaip baigsis šios Kalėdų atostogos, jos bus ypatingos. Ir galbūt netgi pakeis Sofijos gyvenimą absoliučiai netikėta kryptimi.

Ci sono persone per cui mentire è facile, altre per cui è praticamente impossibile. Perché mentire è difficile, e una bugia non è mai isolata. Una ne richiama inevitabilmente un’altra, e poi un’altra ancora, e occorrono grande lucidità e freddezza per fare sì che lo scintillante ma fragile castello di carte che abbiamo eretto tra noi e gli altri non cada all’improvviso, rivelando una volta per tutte chi siamo. Poi ci sono persone per cui mentire è, semplicemente, un mestiere. E in questo Evie Porter è la migliore. Per questo Mr Smith, il suo misterioso datore di lavoro, fa ricorso alle sue doti quando la parte da recitare è quella di una ragazza dell’Alabama fidanzata di Ryan Sumner, il tipico ragazzo d’oro che chiunque vorrebbe sposare. Peccato che sia la solita bugia e che Evie, come al solito, stia mentendo per carpire informazioni da un tutto sommato forse non così limpido Ryan. Peccato, perché la sua vittima questa volta è davvero carina e la vita che le promette è proprio il genere di esistenza che Evie ha solo potuto brevemente sognare di tanto in tanto leggendo qualche romanzo d’amore. In fondo si trova lì per fare il suo lavoro, in cui è così brava, e poi sparire.Ma un giorno, durante una festa, le si avvicina la fidanzata di un amico di Ryan e sorridente le si presenta. Strano nome, il Lucca.Lucca Marino. Molto strano. Anche perché è il vero nome di Evie. Qualcuno almeno bravo quanto lei a mentire, improvvisamente, è sul terreno di gioco.Ma il gioco, questa volta, qual è?

Evie Porter tiene todo lo que cualquier chica podría desear: un novio que la quiere, una casa con jardín y unas amigas fantásticas. Pero Evie Porter no existe. La identidad es lo primero: Evie Porter. Una vez que su misterioso jefe, el señor Smith, le da un nombre y una ubicación, aprende todo lo que hay que saber sobre la ciudad y sus habitantes. Luego, el objetivo: Ryan Sumner. La última pieza del rompecabezas es el trabajo. Pero para Evie este trabajo es diferente. Ryan se ha metido bajo su piel y sus sueños y anhelos verdaderos se han colado en la relación, hasta tal punto que ha empezado a imaginarse otro tipo de vida para sí misma, una en la que su jefe no mueva los hilos. Evie no puede cometer ningún error, especialmente después de lo que pasó la última vez… Porque lo único que ha intentado mantener siempre al margen de sus actividades, la única identidad a la que siempre podría volver (su verdadera identidad), acaba de llegar a esta ciudad. A medida que el pasado de Evie comienza a alcanzarla, ¿podrá ir un paso por delante para salvar su futuro?

9 hours, 16 minutes Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job. Evie isn’t privy to Mr. Smith’s real identity, but she knows this job will be different. Ryan has gotten under her skin, and she’s starting to envision a different sort of life for herself. But Evie can’t make any mistakes--especially after what happened last time. Because the one thing she’s worked her entire life to keep clean, the one identity she could always go back to—her real identity—just walked right into this town. Evie Porter must stay one step ahead of her past while making sure there’s still a future in front of her. The stakes couldn't be higher--but then, Evie has always liked a challenge...