Showing results for "Heartache" in Contemporary

Micah Harding has always been known to cause heartache. He didn't know it, but he broke my heart the summer I turned eleven. Humiliated and embarrassed, I didn't speak to him again after he claimed to have rescued me. Now, ten years later, I find myself on his doorstep, heartbroken yet again. Only this time, I'm an unemployed model, running from the life I've tried so hard to create, about to be thrust back into the one I escaped. Although he's the same billionaire I knew all those years ago, Micah's changed. I see the pain he holds in his blue-gray eyes, desperate to forget his reality.

Blood has been spilled, my heart has been broken, and there are traitors in our midst. What a great way to start as the new leader of the Caprioni Family. Just when I thought I'd finally have everything I'd ever dreamed of, it was torn away from me. Only two weeks on the job after being brought home, and everything goes to s--t. No one expected this tragedy to happen—least of all me. Now, rage and heartache fuel me as I lay my father to rest, plotting the demise of those who dared to steal the man I loved most from me.

Penny Miller is lonely and bored. By day she works at a library; by night she mixes cocktails in a seedy neighbourhood bar. At 22 she's given up her dreams of college and lives with her grandmother on the miserable outskirts of the city, longing for the kind of romance she reads about in books - love with a capital L.