Author: carrieaarons
Presley McDaniel lives her life from moment to moment.Making permanent decisions means obligation, and that would force her to stop being the family disappointment. Waitress, fitness instructor, dog walker … you name the hourly job and she’s probably held the position.But when her grandmother can no longer run her book shop in Fawn Hill, a town so small it barely has its own zip code, Presley … zip code, Presley steps up to help.The move from bustling city to green pastures may be exactly what she needs to sort out her life. But she didn’t ask for that happy ending…
ImogenThere is no way we can still love and cherish one and other.When I married Theo Walsh, the rough, bearded townie who worked construction on my family’s summer house, I’d found my happily ever after.That was before the fighting. Before the jealousy. Before the infertility.We’ll be divorced long before death does us part.But to secure my place in the family dynasty, there is just one more … part.But to secure my place in the family dynasty, there is just one more hoop I have to jump through. And I need him to do it.Faking the marriage we once thrived in will gut…
A THE TENTH GIRL standalone novel, get ready to fall in hate with this enemies-to-lovers second chance romance…Love is weakness.Which is why Annabelle Mills vowed a long time ago to never let it destruct her. A former pageant queen with a bite equally as lethal as her bark, she’s interning at her dream job on the set of the highest-rated home design show on television. Everything in Annabelle’s … television. Everything in Annabelle’s life, though it may be cold and isolated, is going exactly as she always planned.Until her ex-high school sweetheart moves to town. The same boy that she…
Never play a game you can’t win.For Cain Kent, that rule is golden. Losing is not in his vocabulary, and up until now, everything has come easy. Football, school, girls … his charm-laced ego may just be bigger than Texas itself.The competition he started freshman year with his friends, to make ten notches each in their bedposts by graduation day, is practically in the bag. One more to go, and … One more to go, and then it’s off to college fame and eventually, the big time. Attachments aren’t something he wants to form, but when the quiet new girl…
You know that pact you make with your childhood best friend of the opposite sex? The one where, if you’re both still single, lonely and hopeless at thirty, you’ll marry each other?This is the story about what happens when you hit the big three-oh and have to make good on that pinky promise.Personally, I think love, romance and all of that nonsense is a crock of, well, you know. And Reese Collins, … And Reese Collins, the boy who used to put worms in my hair at backyard barbecues, knows that better than anyone.But when he moves to the same…
We were the seconds after a grip released the bar, body floating through the air with nervous wonder. Would we successfully grab it again, or would we hit the mat, shattered and defeated?Peyton Adams learned a long time ago that selfish and detached is the only way to be in life. What most people call shameless or obnoxious behavior, she considers key to getting where she needs to go. Most … Most disapproving of all? USA Gymnastics’ golden boy with an eight-pack, Jared Hargrove. After being cut from the women’s team right before Rio, Peyton is back on the post-Summer…
He was as magnetic as a deadly hurricane to the shore.Carson Cole was my first love. The boy I’d shared my whole self with.He was the man who’d taken the other part of my soul and drowned it in the sea we’d grown up in.And now he’s back. Ten years later, and the demons of our past are still haunting every breath trapped between us.She was as wild as the horses who owned the beach highways we … who owned the beach highways we drove down.Blake Sayer was the beautiful daredevil who had me wrapped around her finger from the…
Nathan Rush is a small town man who has never dreamed of a bigger life.Until, that is, the only surviving heiress of America’s richest family lands on his doorstep. Nathan is the groundskeeper at Hollis House, the Valon family’s upstate New York mansion just outside of Harlin Falls, the quiet, sleepy town he was raised in. He’s an honest, hard-working man who wants nothing more than a beer and a … beer and a hockey game on TV at the end of the night. Except, when the ice princess starts to melt, Nathan pictures his future in a way he…
You know how Cinderella had the whole glass slipper, pumpkin carriage, fairy godmother thing?Yeah…with foot-destroying stilettos, Uber, and a Twitter horoscope, my life is far from a happily ever after.In fact, instead of Prince Charming, I end up dating every slimy, scaly, brainless frog in the kingdom of Manhattan. And by frog, I mean all of the stereotypical bad guys that Mom and Lifetime … Mom and Lifetime movies warned you about.The meathead player.The mommy’s boy.The namedropper.The cheapskate.If they suck at relationships, I’ve probably kissed those cold, clammy lips in the hopes of finding love. Until one day, when one…
Fear stops dreams in their tracks before they even have a chance. Then again, so do injuries.Natalia Grekov was born to win a gold medal. As the USA’s top gymnast, she’s calm, confident and ready to make her country proud in just two short months. And her elite athlete lifestyle includes no time for distractions—especially men. When a disastrous fall in practice puts her dreams at risk, it seems … risk, it seems the only person who can help her is the one person she wants nothing from.Spencer Russell is gymnastics’ bad boy. A cocky, laid-back charmer with abs of…