RITA Winners includes Boys Like You, Concealed in Death, His Road Home, Evernight, Deceived, Romancing the Duke, Fool Me Twice, A Texas Rescue Christmas.
A raw, beautiful and heartbreaking contemporary YA that "readers of Miranda Kenneally, Jenny Han, and Susane Colasanti will enjoy," according to VOYA.
Nate Everets' life was all about acoustic guitar, girls in short shorts and hot Southern nights. Until the accident. Monroe Blackwell's life was full of soccer goals, flirty skirts and bright city lights. Until the accident.
Now Nate has a best friend that might never wake up, a summer of community service, and enough guilt to drown in. Monroe has a family that's falling apart, a summer banishment to her grandma's, and a choking grief that makes it hard to breathe.
Captivating and hopeful, this achingly poignant novel brings together two lost souls struggling with grief and guilt looking for acceptance, so they can find forgiveness. "Juliana Stone's YA debut is romantic, heart-wrenching, and unputdownable. I want more!" ―Michelle Rowen, national bestselling author
Special Forces medic Rey Cruz needs to find a fiancée, fast, or he'll end up in a marriage orchestrated by an Afghan warlord. Finding a picture online of a girl he barely knew back home, he fakes an engagement photo, thinking no one else will see it. But when Rey loses both legs and the ability to speak while rescuing a local boy, the image goes viral.
Seattle marine biologist Grace Kim is shocked to find out she's engaged. When she's offered a plane ticket to visit her "fiancé," she takes it, looking for the answer to one question: Why did he lie? Touched by Rey's funny texts and the determination she sees in him, Grace offers her friendship—a big step for someone who prefers whales to most company.
And when Rey is finally sent home, Grace agrees to help him drive his classic car cross-country over Thanksgiving—a once-in-a-lifetime road trip that leads to what feels like real love. In front of his friends and family, she plays the caring fiancée, but what place will Grace have in Rey's new life once he's ready to be on his own again?
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Winner of the 2015 RITA Award for Best First Book!
Deception So Deadly is the complete first novel in the two-book Run to You series, a riveting romantic thriller about a family on the run from a deadly past and a first love that will transcend secrets, lies and danger…
Sarah Spencer has a secret: her real name is Tessa Carson, and to stay alive, she can tell no one the truth about her psychically gifted family and the danger they are running from. As the new girl in the latest of countless schools, she also runs from her attraction to Tristan Walker—after all, she can't even tell him her real name. But Tristan won't be put off by a few secrets. Not even dangerous ones that might rip Tessa from his arms before they even kiss…
Run to You is Tessa and Tristan's story—two full-length books about psychic gifts, secret lives and dangerous loves. Danger. Deception. Betrayal. It must be true love.
Previously published as the Run to You serial parts 1-3—Part I: First Sight; Part II: Second Glance; Part III: Third Charm.