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I've always believed things happen for a reason. But things don't always happen the way you planned. Callie thought her life was finally changing. She was so close to grasping the brass ring. Then tragedy struck, and she once again lost everything. My name is Callie Bailey, and I wasn't always in love with Maison Keller; I was in love with Drayton Clay, first. Drayton was my first love, my first kiss, my first everything. The day Drayton proposed to me, was not only the best day of my life, but the most tragic as well. I died that night with him.

Liam has been so many people that he can hardly remember who he really is. Having to walk away from the woman he loved to keep her safe, he wonders if he will ever be able to have a normal life. With the trial starting in a couple weeks, all he can wish for is to put his demons and secrets in the past. When Finn’s Grams gets sick, she comes home to care for the woman who raised her as her own.

Natasha was only 16-years-old when she was stolen from us. Groomed to marry a man she doesn’t like, let alone love. Alec Turner was my best friend and Natasha - Nat as we called her - his kid sister. I had never told Alec the feelings I had for Nat. I was two years older than her, and Alec would have killed me and buried me in his backyard for even thinking, let alone mentioning, my attraction to her.

Could you ever believe in second chances? Have you ever wanted something so bad that when it's gone, you never forgot it? You longed for it; everything you do is in preparation to have it again, but this time you won't let it go. As a child, Beckett was tormented by the one person that was supposed to love him unconditionally...but, that's only in fairy tales. When the girl next door showed him there was more to life than what he's grown up knowing, he finds his solace in her; his first love, Harlow Girl.

Never having a family to call his own, Toby Mitchell grew up alone. Given away as a young child, he knew he would never be loved. He was a child caught up in the foster system, always being shuffled from one home to the next. He had no family. That is, until he was old enough to join the Marines. He finally found his family. While on a mission in Afghanistan, he sustained a job-ending injury that forced him out of the only family he knew.

They say young love never lasts, but not us; I would bet my life that ours lasts. Sydney was my yesterday, is my today, and will forever be my tomorrow. Life couldn’t get much better. Chief Carmichael not only got me into the police academy, but he gave me his blessing to marry Sydney.

I didn’t have a choice. My only option to find out who murdered my parents was to die myself; become a ghost. The hardest part was not being able to tell my best friend Nash and my sister Natasha. Everything was set. It was supposed to be my last assignment - a peacekeeping mission. What I didn’t know was they had hired someone else to take me out, and it would have worked if it hadn’t been for her.

All Charlie ever wanted to do was play softball in college. She’d worked her whole young life for it and finally made it. The only problem? It’s on the other side of the country. To keep her dream alive, she does the only thing she can. She moves. But, when Charlie refuses to party and drink with her teammates, she’s accused of not being a team player. There’s no way she’d jeopardize her scholarship. Charlie will walk away from anyone who can ruin her dream.

I once was told that my wishes would come true if I wished upon a falling star. Well, they were wrong. Or were they? I think my heart belonged to Kaiden from the very first moment we met. We spent a secret weekend together talking about our future, wished upon falling stars, and confessing our love for one another.

Richard Stone devoted his life to work and family. When his parents die tragically, the life he'd known came crashing down, causing him to spiral out of control. That is until the postcard arrived. Nicole House was excited. She was graduating from college and had been offered her dream job at the company she had longed to work for. Then, the unthinkable happened. Brutally attacked, her life was forever changed.

Raw and gritty. This isn't your ordinary love story. Sam learned early life wasn't fair. Her life was a lie. Sam was off limits. Oliver knew he couldn't have her, but he can't live without her, either. When Samantha's mother re-marries, and she acquires an older brother that takes advantage of her innocence, she learns that there is more to family than words and actions. Oliver used to be a carefree boy until a horrifying incident takes his family away. He has learned one important lesson at his young age: "Protect those you care about."

Hudson thought she’d met the perfect man. But when she receives a series of incriminating photographs of her fiancé cheating the night before their wedding, her dreams of a perfect life are shattered.