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At age 14, Zelda Rossi witnessed the unthinkable, and has spent the last 10 years hardening her heart against the guilt and grief. She channels her pain into her art: a dystopian graphic novel where vigilantes travel back in time to stop heinous crimes before they happen. Zelda pitches her graphic novel to several comic book publishers in New York City, only to have her hopes crash and burn. Circumstances leave her stranded in an unfamiliar city, and in an embarrassing moment of weakness, she meets a guarded young man with a past he'd do anything to change....

Charlotte Conroy, Juilliard-trained violinist, was on the cusp of greatness when tragedy swooped down on dark wings, crushing her hopes and breaking her heart. The music that used to sing in her soul has grown quiet, and she feels on the verge of setting down her violin for good. To pay the bills, she accepts a job as a personal assistant to a bitter, angry young man who's been disabled by a horrific accident....

Kacey Dawson has always lived life on the edge - impulsively, sometimes recklessly. And now, as lead guitarist for a hot up-and-coming band, she is poised at the brink of fame and fortune. But she is torn between wanting to be a serious musician and the demons that lure her down the glittering but alcohol-soaked path of rock stardom. A wrecked concert in Las Vegas threatens to ruin her career entirely. She wakes up with the hangover from hell and no memory of the night before.

Traumatized by the deaths of her parents three years ago, Natalie Hewitt lives an introverted life, taking college classes during the day and working as a barista in a coffee shop at night. Julian Kovac is a millionaire and a recluse. He lives a life of self-imposed seclusion in order to protect a secret and honor his dying mother's last wish. He walks into Natalie's cafe one summer evening, and both of their lives are forever altered by the intense, slow-burn love that blooms between them.

Reeling from her loss, Kacey Dawson is grieving and heartbroken, her addictive demons hauling her back into the alcohol-soaked abyss she worked so hard to crawl out of. Kacey teeters on the edge of oblivion, and must fight her way through the pain, to build a new life for herself with her music, and somehow fulfill the promise she made to Jonah...one she feels is impossible to keep.

Never again would I allow my heart to become the plaything of someone else. Never again would I let a man (or men) come between me and my goals. Never again would I love without feeling the fullness of that love in return. Not until I knew it was real. And if that took me a lifetime to find, so be it. Those were my vows, and after all that had happened with Connor and Weston, I was determined to keep them. To protect my heart. And then he came home, and my vows became his promises.

Darlene Montgomery has been to hell and back...more than once. After a stint in jail for drug possession, she is finally clean and ready to start over. Yet another failed relationship is just the motivation she needs to move from New York to San Francisco with the hopes of resurrecting her dance career and discovering that she is more than the sum of her rap sheet. As Darlene struggles in her new city, the last thing she wants is to become entangled with her handsome - but cranky - neighbor and his adorable little girl....

I fell for Connor Drake. I didn't want to; I fought against it, but I fell in love with him anyway. With his words. With his poetry. With him. The gentleness and beauty of his soul that speaks directly to mine. He writes as if he can feel my heart, hear its cadence and compose the exact right lyrics to accompany every beat and flow.

The bank robbery changed everything. Alex Gardener, a successful attorney, and Cory Bishop, a struggling working man, spend three harrowing days as hostages locked in a bank with 50 frightened people and six criminals who grow more desperate - and dangerous - by the minute. Alex and Cory take comfort in one another, reveal their deepest hopes and dreams, and forge a bond out of necessity, for survival, but one that unknowingly alters the course of their lives forever. 

Holden Parish survived his parents' horrific attempts to make him the perfect son. After a year's stint in a Swiss sanitarium to recover, he has vowed to never let anything, nor anyone, trap him again. Brilliant but broken, he seeks refuge behind alcohol, meaningless sex, and uses his wicked sense of humor to keep people away. He only has to ride out one year in the coastal town of Santa Cruz with his aunt and uncle before he inherits his billions and can make his escape and disappear. Falling in love is not in the plans. 

Nikolai Alexei Young was born with a special gift...one he'd do anything to lose. The heart and soul of every person he comes into contact with is an open book to his heightened senses. Colorful emotions, whispers of thoughts, the sour tastes of old memories.... He feels them all. The sci-fi books would call him an empath. For Nikolai, his ability has made him an exile. He roams the US alone, avoiding the glut of life in big cities, and using his innate talents to win money in underground poker games. Just enough to keep going, one town to the next.

After 10 years in foster care, 18-year-old Ronan is finally reunited with family. His uncle gives him a roof over his head and puts him to work, managing a shabby apartment complex in Santa Cruz, California. But a second chance is still a second chance. Ronan becomes a solitary hunter, a vigilante, walking the streets at night to keep the nightmares at bay. If he can use the anger burning in his tainted blood to protect instead of hurt, maybe then he’ll find the absolution he seeks. Then he meets Shiloh.

Miller Stratton is a survivor. After a harrowing childhood of poverty, he will do anything it takes to find security for himself and his mom. He’s putting all his hopes and dreams in the fragile frame of his guitar and the beauty he creates with its strings and his soulful voice. Until Violet. No one expects to meet the love of their life at age 13. But the spunky rich girl steals Miller’s heart and refuses to give it back.

Kann ihre Liebe gegen die Schatten der Vergangenheit bestehen? Tänzerin Darlene will ganz von vorn anfangen, nachdem sie endlich ihre Drogensucht überwunden hat. Das Letzte, was sie brauchen kann, ist in die Probleme ihres attraktiven Nachbarn Sawyer hineingezogen zu werden. Der Student und Single Dad kämpft um das Sorgerecht für seine kleine Tochter. Eigentlich hatte sie der Liebe erst einmal abgeschworen, doch bald kann sie sich ein Leben ohne ihn nicht mehr vorstellen.

Manchmal braucht man die Worte eines anderen, um seine Geschichte zu erzählen... Für das, was vor einem Jahr geschah, hat Willow keine Worte. Erst als sie die Rolle der Ophelia am städtischen Theater bekommt, sieht sie eine Chance, ihren Schmerz mit den Zeilen Shakespeares in die Welt zu schreien. Ihr Hamlet ist Isaac Pearce, der Bad Boy der Stadt. Instinktiv versteht Isaac ihren Hilferuf, und mit jeder Konfrontation der tragischen Liebenden auf der Bühne kommen Willow und Isaac sich näher. Doch um wieder wirklich zu leben, muss Willow ihre eigenen Worte finden.

"Ich werde nie wieder zuzulassen, dass ein Mann mein Herz bricht. Nie wieder lieben, ohne mir sicher zu sein, dass diese Liebe mit ganzer Seele erwidert wird." Nach allem, was mit Connor und Weston geschehen ist, war ich fest entschlossen, mich daran zu halten und mein Herz zu schützen. Doch dann kehrte er zurück, und mein Schwur wurde sein Versprechen. Er hielt mein Herz ehrfürchtig in seinen Händen, er liebte mich so aufrichtig und wahrhaftig, dass ich wusste, ich würde in hundert Leben nie wieder so etwas fühlen.

College-Studentin Autumn ahnt nicht, dass die wunderschönen Gedichte, die ihr der attraktive Connor schickt, von dessen Freund Weston stammen. Und obwohl Autumn sich zunehmend in Connor verliebt, spürt sie in Westons Nähe eine unerklärliche Anziehung. Die beiden Freunde verstricken sich mehr und mehr in ihrer gut gemeinten Täuschung. Und als Connor nach einem Streit mit seiner Familie eine folgenschwere Entscheidung trifft, steht auf einmal mehr als nur ihre Freundschaft auf dem Spiel. Auftaktdes "Beautiful-Hearts"-Duetts.

"Du bist das Licht in meiner Dunkelheit, Charlotte...". Charlotte Conroy stand am Anfang einer großen Karriere als Violinistin, als die Musik in ihr verstummte. Aus Geldnot nimmt sie den Job als Assistentin für einen blinden jungen Mann an. Noah Lake war Extremsportler und Fotograf, bis er bei einem Unfall sein Augenlicht verlor und sich von der Welt zurückzog. Mit jedem gescheiterten Versuch, Charlotte zu vergraulen, schleicht sich die junge Frau mehr in Noahs Herz und reißt die Mauern ein, die er um sich errichtet hat.

Der perfekte Abschluss für Charlottes und Noahs Geschichte. Durch Charlotte hat Noah Lake die Kraft gefunden, ins Leben zurückzukehren und seine Blindheit endlich zu akzeptieren. Doch er will sich Charlottes' Liebe wahrlich würdig erweisen und macht sich auf eine Reise, die zur größten Herausforderung seines Lebens wird. Denn zu lernen, sich in der Welt zurechtzufinden, ist eine Sache - die Dämonen, die ihn so lange fesselten, endgültig konfrontieren, eine ganz andere... Die Novella zu "The Light in Us".

Nur die Macht der Vergebung kann ihrer Liebe Flügel verleihen... Vor zehn Jahren wurde Zeldas Leben zerstört. Ihren Schmerz verarbeitet sie in ihrer Graphic Novel - aber kein Verlag will ihre Geschichte veröffentlichen. Doch dann trifft sie in New York auf Beckett - auch er trägt eine Last, die ihn nicht loslässt. Da sie sich keine eigene Wohnung in New York leisten kann und Beckett mit der Miete im Verzug ist, überredet sie ihn, sie als Mitbewohnerin aufzunehmen.