Melyssa Winchester Bücher

Anger, Resentment, Jealousy, Rage, Violence, Hate and Fear. For eighteen years, this is all I've known. When everything seemed to crash and burn around me, I could always count on those seven things to get me through. At least that's how it was until Isabelle. With one brief look across a crowded parking lot, she altered my entire existence. Erasing all of the things I thought I could count on and replacing them with ones of her own. Things that even now, a year later, I still don't think I deserve. Forgiveness, Understanding, Acceptance, Friendship, Redemption, Hope and Love. So what do you do when you've been given all of these things by the most beautiful person on the planet with nothing expected in return? Well when you're me, you find a way to screw it up. She thinks I'm the strong one. That I'm not afraid of anything. She's wrong. I'm afraid of a lot of things, but the absolute worst is losing her. Losing yet another person I love and being powerless to stop it. I can't lose Belle. I just can't. Even if losing her is exactly what I deserve. You thought our story was complete, but what you're about to find out, is no story ever really ends. It just finds new ways to begin again.

Ryan McGregor's whole life changed the day he met Serenity Richards. Not only did he learn the truth about who and what he really is, but he found a love in her that he never even knew was possible. But she's missing now and with each day that passes without her, the darkness threatens to take hold. Showing him the part of his life that he's been doing everything in his power to escape. Everyone has a story, a life lived before a person or event comes along, leaving their mark and changing it forever. In Love United you met the man desperate to leave his mark on the world. The hybrid that was so affected by love that he went against everything he had ever known or believed in. This is his story. The story of Ryan before Serenity. And the story that years later threatens to leave him living in a world without the one thing he desperately needs. The light.

**Due to the sensitive nature of the material within these pages, it is recommended by the author that you do not let young children read this story. It is recommended for readers at least 16+.in age.** Numbers. They’re significant. In my life each one meaning more than the one before it. Seven years. Two thousand, five hundred and fifty five days. That’s how long it’s been since I learned I have Asperger's Syndrome. Five years. One thousand, seven hundred and twenty days. How long I've been in therapy because of it. One random meeting. All it took for my world to be turned upside down and for me to learn that even in the worst human being, there’s a story to tell and sometimes, the cover to that story can be misleading. I’m Eric Carmen. She’s Amelia Evans and this is our story.

There are people that tell you high school is the best time of your life. They lied. High school is horrible when you're like me and you're autistic. They think that because I don't talk and I seem to always be lost in my own world, I'm stupid or deaf. Some even think I'm retarded. I'm none of those things and I don't like that word. Just because I've got these issues, doesn't mean it's all I am. There's a lot more to me, but no one really takes the time to get to know it. At least that's how it was until Kayden. Kayden Walker is bad news. He spends his time making people that are different, like me, feel even worse about themselves and he does it with a smile. He's everything I don't need in my life, yet he's the one person I can't seem to live without. Underneath, there's more to him that he's afraid to let the rest of the world see. I've seen it and as I'm finding out, we're not so different after all...

Avery My name is Rebecca Davis...and I'm your mother. Nine words. The number it takes to take my life and turn it upside down. Twenty-five years. How long it took for me to find out that my mother didn't abandon me the way my father claimed, and that I wasn't an only child, but a twin. One letter. What brought me to their doorstep for a reunion twenty-five years in the making, but that's being taken from me again far too quickly. But that's not all it brought me. It brought me Jackson Merrick. The one destined to change everything. Emery Twenty years. How long I've known that Avery existed. One week. The time it takes for her to get our letter and book a flight to come home where she belongs. Three days. How long I actually have with her before she goes back to the city. But that's not all that happens over those three days. No, you see, that would be too easy, and as proven with Avery, Davis women don't do easy. One passionate moment. All it takes for Brady Raines to get under my skin and capture my heart. I'm Avery, she's Emery, and this is our story of love. Both lost...and found.

"You only get one life, make the most of it." I'm guessing that screwing my way through the female talent for the last ten years wasn't what Louis Sachar had in mind when he said that. Piece of shit. Home wrecker. Manwhore. I've been called them all. Earned them too.I can't erase what I've done, I own it all. It just damn sure isn't the legacy I imagined leaving behind when I finally hang up my boots and call it quits.I'm not who I was when I agreed to do this for the rest of my life. To be this. The best professional wrestler on the planet? A Heavyweight Champion in multiple promotions? The top dog?That I wanted. It's in the selling of my soul to the devil and becoming Gavin the character more than Gavin the man, I didn't see coming. Somewhere along the way, dollar signs and perks overtook the rush of being in the ring. Overtook the dream. Changed me.So, I did what my man Louis up there said.I made the most of it until the most wasn't good enough anymore. I'm tired.Tired of being Gavin "The Manwhore" Fortune. After ten years, one too many burned relationships, and a black mark that no matter how much I do, I can't wash off, I'm ready to be me. No Fortune. Just Gavin.And Dawson, the newest devil in my world, she can get me there.I just need to find a way to make her like me first.

Well here we are.Senior Year.A year that by definition means I’ll be one of about 300 other kids running my school.Greenville High.I know what you’re all thinking. “Oh no, here comes the book about the virgin wallflower who the popular guy meets and instantly falls for.”Wrong.I’m not an ugly duckling that the cool cats use to make themselves look like even bigger jerks, and I’m definitely not a wallflower, though that whole virginal thing, well that’s really none of your business. I’m just the girl more interested in taking pictures and playing on her acoustic than getting caught up in the petty drama that four years of high school is guaranteed to create. Until Christian.I know, I know. It’s always a guy isn’t it?Girl on the fast track to any college she chooses, always seems to get tripped up by the guy.But hear me out! This guy…he’s different.You see, Christian Cayne isn’t just some guy I almost ran down on my first day here and later fell in love with. I wish it were that simple. It would make what’s gotta happen now easier. Christian is a lot of things to a lot of people since he landed here with his dad at the end of the summer, but in a couple of months, he’s going to have to be one thing only to me. My step-brother.

Every hero has a villain.It's been that way since the beginning of time.If you're looking for a present-day example, look no further than Batman.He had a slew of them, but my personal favorite was Harvey Dent.When you think about it, with the way my life has been, I could easily be considered his far more evil brother.The only real difference between us, I have more faces than two.You see, monsters aren't born, they're created.And just like every villain that's come before me, I'm not going anywhere.Not even when faced with my biggest challenge yet.Jail.I'm not walking away until they all pay for what they turned me into.The monster with so many faces, he has no real face at all.

My whole life, I've dreamed of being one thing. A professional wrestler.When I lost the only person in my life that I gave a shit about, I threw everything I had into making that dream a reality. After years of putting my body on the line, I got my chance with Harbour Front Wrestling Alliance.They saw something in me and after proving myself worthy, they handed me the brass ring.The HFWA Heavyweight Championship.I was sitting on top of the world.Nothing and no one could stop me.Until someone did. Me. Now, stripped of everything I love and with nothing left to fight for, I'm on a path of self-destruction. One that can only end one way. Death.It's just too bad Kimberlee had other plans. For me...and my heart. Every story, whether real or imagined, needs a hero. But what happens when the hero isn't strong enough to fight?He tags in a partner. A Heroine.