Author: whitneybarbetti
One night together could ruin everything…Keane Colburn was my best friend. Ever since childhood, we could always count on each other to be there no matter what—though when I confessed my love to him, things didn’t turn out as planned.Thankfully, my little crush didn’t ruin our friendship. I shoved those feelings to the back of my mind, watching him chase after other girls and silently wishing … silently wishing it was me. I resigned us to friendship—that was more important than anything else.But a drunken one-night stand changed everything. Because even though we vowed to forget about it, I couldn’t…
Adam Oliver hated me. Loathed my very existence. He had every right to, but that didn’t make my life any easier the afternoon I had to rescue him on the side of the road.But worse than rescuing a guy who hated me to his core was the lie I told my parents.Because I’d just told them that my long-term boyfriend was finally back in town.My long-term boyfriend who didn’t actually exist.The one named … actually exist.The one named Adam Oliver—the guy I’d crushed on all through high school.So the real Adam had no idea that he and I were engaged…
Six was always there, even when I didn’t want him. But he couldn’t hold me together, and I couldn’t be his penance.Loss is a phantom limb. No one can see it, but the ache torments you in the night, distracts you during the day, and leaves you fragmented. I’m half a heart, half a soul, and nothing could cure the pieces he’d left behind.Losing him was safer than loving him. Because the love that … him. Because the love that kept us coming back again and again was nothing short of madness.But then, isn’t mad love the most honest?—Pieces of…
Six wasn’t the hero I needed.But he was the man I wanted.And it was my selfish craving, the desire to own him, that would be our undoing. No one tells you that love is a disease. An infection that tears your heart apart, leaving you half the person you were before. A malady that leaves open wounds. An invisible disorder tracing scars in the places you couldn’t see if you weren’t looking for them. you weren’t looking for them. I was sick, but love didn’t heal me.Instead, it festered in my marrow, and drove me to unforgivable mistakes. Six was…
I’ve been in love with him forever. But to him, I’ve always been off-limits. Until the night that changed everything. Maybe it was the alcohol. Maybe it was the secrets we shared. Maybe he finally opened his eyes and saw me. By the time the sun rose, I’d lost him again, my heart shattering on his parting words: “It was a mistake.” So I ran. Ran until I was thousands of miles away, in a country I … miles away, in a country I didn’t know, surrounded by people who only made me miss him more. I never expected him…
After a chance encounter on a bridge, Mila and Ames fall into a whirlwind romance — but their time together has a rapidly approaching deadline…
Book one of two – BOTH books now available! I was born in sadness, which was just the beginning of a solemn and desolate life. I’m no stranger to pain—none of us are. The night I held my best friend’s hand as she died, I understood true agony. And I never thought I’d feel happiness again.But that was so long ago… Moving to Colorado to be with Colin, my high school sweetheart, was the perfect … school sweetheart, was the perfect way to start over and rekindle what had begun to fizzle. I wanted that spark to ignite, to burn…
With over 2,100 five-star ratings on Goodreads: Covered in scars from an attack she can’t remember, Parker refuses to feel anything — until arrogant Everett leaves her no choice. Now she’s finally starting to feel alive, just as Everett himself is dying…