((how beautiful it would be if you saw what haunted me and still would stay)) Who are you when nobody is looking? The quiet one, the cool one, the nice one - Christopher Mane has many faces, depending on who you ask. He has met many people in his life, creating a different act for each one in the need of validation. But when everything seem to blur together and collapse, can Chris keep up the act? Who is he when nobody is looking?
From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M
I've spent my life weaving stories that captivate millions, yet here I am, alone in this enormous house, surrounded by silence. Success hasn't brought me the happiness I thought it would. The mansion feels more like a gilded cage, each room echoing with the emptiness of a life that looks perfect from the outside but feels anything but. One stormy night, as the rain pounds against the windows and the power goes out, I'm plunged into darkness both literally and figuratively. While searching for candles, I stumble upon something I never expected: a hidden door behind my bookshelf. A door I've never seen before, leading to a secret room buried deep within the walls of my own home. What lies beyond that door? As I step inside, I'm faced with a mystery that shakes the foundations of everything I thought I knew. This discovery could finally fill the void I've been living with for so long or it might just lead me deeper into the darkness.
In the aftermath of a devastating terrorist attack on Train 51 to Barcelona, one survivor remains - the enigmatic New Yorker, Ellena Devall. As relentless Interpol investigator Monica Black edges closer to the truth, Ellena's world unravels, revealing a web of long-buried secrets that threaten to destroy the life she has so carefully constructed. Caught between the pursuit of justice, her hidden past, and an electrifying romance with her mysterious boss, Aaron, Ellena finds herself on a treacherous tightrope. Will she risk everything, including her heart, in the quest for answers? Join Ellena and Aaron on a heart-pounding journey where love and intrigue entwine, and where the pursuit of truth may exact a toll measured in love itself.
What makes a person want to take their own life? After Hazel accidentally saves a strange boy named Nick from this unforgivable fate, she asks herself this question more than once. While Nick's life is on the verge of rock bottom, she tries everything to convince him of the meaning of life again, and somehow she manages to get through to him, to show him that the world offers him more than constant darkness and disappointment. When everything between them seems close to perfect, a sudden secret comes up and makes both of them doubt everything that they've gotten themselves into. One misunderstanding follows another and suddenly seems to flood everything Hazel tried to built up trying to save Nick from drowning in the darkness of his past.
In the aftermath of an undisclosed kidnapping incident, the idyllic family was never something identical twins, Nikki and Taylin, were familiar with. Even in the care of their mother and her fiancé, far away from the abusive home they'd grown up in, they find picking through the shards of their tragic lives too much effort--for what is the use when the pieces are too small to be put back together?
Did anyone ever suddenly turn away from you for no apparent reason? And they wanted nothing to do with you anymore, out of the blue? Well, I've been there. And I might know exactly how you feel. My former best friends, Mia and Hannah, were constants in my life for seven years. I thought our friendship would last forever. But here I am, two years later, with countless unanswered questions, thoughts, and memories of that time filling my head. Back then, I wished someone who experienced similar things would have talked about their worries, fears, and thoughts during such a friendship breakup. So here I am, sharing my own story with you.
The universe is vast, as far as we know it's endless. We don't know what's truly out there but we can always imagine it. The possibilities are limitless and now come, take the plunge into its vastness and find out what might be. Some of these stories will be joyful, some sad, some full of love, some maybe more intertwined on second glance and some might come with a warning sign attached. This isn't about what's reality and what isn't, it's about what could be and how much we can imagine.
A book about betrayal, loss and despair. The main character, a young woman named Mallory, dies in a fatal car crash but she is able to participate in the world she left behind unseen and unheard. She died twice. The second time brutally betrayed by one of her loved ones. The deepest betrayal comes from the people we love. They are the ones we let in the most and share our thoughts with as well as our feelings.
