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Forever Ours
(Shattered Hearts #0.5)
Synopsis:
Forever Ours is the highly anticipated prequel to
the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shattered Hearts
Series. This can be read as a stand alone or before Relentless.
Sometimes, it takes more than love to
mend a shattered heart.
After eight years of
being tossed around from one home to another, never forming any meaningful
friendships or bonds with her foster families, Claire's caseworker gives her an
ultimatum: Behave or your next home will be a halfway house.
When fifteen-year-old
Claire arrives at the home of Jackie Knight and meets Jackie's fifteen-year-old
son, tattooed guitarist Chris, she fears she'll be seeing the inside of that
halfway house soon. But Chris isn't like any other guy Claire has ever
encountered and he soon gains her trust through his music and unwavering
patience.
Claire has finally
found her forever home and she and Chris soon find themselves falling in love.
But Chris’s dreams of
musical stardom and Claire’s need for a stable home soon put their love in
jeopardy. Chris struggles deeply with his plans for the future, entirely
reluctant to leave Claire behind; until Claire does something that may break
their love — and the only home she’s comes to know — forever.
Excerpt:
There are moments in life that you know will be
burned into your memory forever. Chris calls these “movie screen moments” —
where everything slows down and you know that something important is about to
happen that will change the course of the story. He says that the best songs are
written about movie screen moments. I don’t know if this is true. All I know is
that this is one of those moments.
I can feel it in the air. And I know that when I
look back, I’ll remember everything about this moment in time; the smells, the
tastes, the sounds, and the touch. The touch.
Chris and I are both sitting on the carpet with
our backs leaned against the sofa, our fingers woven together as MTV plays in
the background. This is something we’ve done every day for the past six weeks,
ever since summer break began. As soon as Jackie leaves for work in the
morning, we both get up and have breakfast together. He usually makes me a bowl
of cereal or I make us both some scrambled eggs. Then we hang out in the living
room for a few hours until his friends come over. Sometimes, Chris plays his
guitar for me. Sometimes, we sit here and pretend to watch MTV, holding hands
while Mr. Miyagi lays out across both of our laps, begging to be petted. Well,
I don’t know if Chris is pretending to watch MTV, but I know I am.
All I can seem to think about when I’m near
Chris is whether or not this will last or if he will be just another person I
have to lose. But this doesn’t stop me from enjoying these hours spent
together. I’ve never been happier in all my life. Not even when my mom was
alive.
I’ll admit. I was sort of hoping today would be
different then all the other mornings Chris and I have hung out. Not that I
don’t like this small moment of closeness we share every day. But today’s my
sixteenth birthday. I guess I figured that would make today even more special
for us. I was kind of hoping I might get my first kiss.
“Tristan’s coming over in half an hour and we’re
going to the mall. You want to come?”
My heart sinks a little. Chris knows that
Tristan and I don’t get along very well. He hasn’t even wished me a happy
birthday and now he’s leaving to hang out with Tristan.
I try to let go of his hand and he tightens his
grip. “What’s wrong?”
I attempt to pull my hand away again and this
time he lets go. “I don’t want to go to the mall.”
“Are you okay?”
I stand up and he immediately stands with me.
“I’m just tired. I think I’m gonna go back to bed.”
I take a few steps, but he grabs my hand to stop
me. When I look over my shoulder at him, he’s wearing a crooked smile. “Can you
take Mr. Miyagi upstairs with you?”
My shoulders slump as I turn toward Chris’s
Shiba Inu where he’s lounging on the sofa.
Chris chuckles. “I’m only kidding. I’m not going
anywhere with Tristan today. I’m taking you for a ride.”
“What?”
“On my bike.”
“I’m not
going on that thing.”
Chris got his motorcycle license the week after
he turned sixteen less than three months ago. He’s been trying to get me to
ride with him on his crappy racing bike ever since the first time I let him
hold my hand.
“Come on,” he pleads. “I have something I want
to show you, but I want to do it alone. I don’t want to ask Tristan to take us.
Please?”
I stare into his eyes for a moment and he tilts
his head. His brown hair always looks calculatedly messy, the way it’s just
long enough to cover his ears yet still sticks out in all the right places. His
skin is so smooth; I often find myself wishing I could press my lips to his
cheek just to feel the softness of his skin. And don’t even get me started on
the metal stud in his tongue. The way he plays with it when he’s tuning his
guitar gives me butterflies. I don’t know what Chris sees in me other than the
way my hand seems to fit so perfectly in his.
He pulls me a little closer and lifts my hand to
his mouth. My heart races as he lays a soft kiss on my knuckles. “Claire, it’s
your birthday. And I know you probably haven’t had a whole lot of birthdays you
want to remember for the rest of your life, but I want this birthday to be the
one you never forget. Let me take you for a ride.”
I stare at his lips as he says these words and
that’s when it happens. This is that moment; the moment where everything
slows down and nothing is ever the same.
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Shattered Hearts Series
Relentless
(Shattered Hearts #1)
Synopsis:
Claire Nixon is a twenty-year-old college dropout with a secret she’ll never tell. Then she meets sexy Adam Parker. Claire knows the flirting is harmless, but guys like Adam mean trouble. Then a seemingly innocent comment spurs a bet between them: if Adam can get Claire to reveal the secret that made her leave her college and her life behind, she has to re-enroll.
Claire’s sure she can win. She's perfected the art of forgetting her past. But she isn't prepared for Adam's relentless pursuit, and she's definitely not prepared when her first love, rock-star Chris Knight – and her heartbreaking secret – comes banging down her door.
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Pieces of You
(Shattered Hearts #2)
(Shattered Hearts #2)
Claire Nixon and Adam Parker each have a painful past too heavy to carry alone. Claire once tried to push Adam away but his relentless pursuit of her heart made her walls come crumbling down, and now they know they’re much stronger together than apart.
But now Claire's attending college a hundred miles away from Adam, and the distance is forcing a crack. To add to the strain, Adam is sent to Hawaii on business, and doubts start creeping into both their hearts.
Claire’s also dealing with her ex, rock star Chris Knight, being back in her life. Chris wants Claire more than anything, and he knows just how to get her: only he has the power to mend the final missing piece of Claire's broken heart. How can Claire ever choose between taking a chance on new love, or a second chance at having a family and a home?
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Bring Me Home
(Shattered Hearts #3)
Synopsis:
Claire Nixon is a college student with a past full of secrets and heartbreak. She was saved once by her first love, and rock star, Chris Knight. But when she encouraged Chris to leave town to pursue his dreams, both Claire and Chris didn’t realize it would be the biggest mistake of their lives.
After a devastating year apart and thousands of miles of distance between them, Claire met sexy surfer Adam Parker. With his awful jokes and profound patience, he helped Claire pick up the shattered pieces of her broken heart for the second time.
But now Chris has returned and he is willing and determined to make Claire’s dreams come true—the same way she did for him when she let him go.
With Adam’s former girlfriend in the picture, Claire finds herself torn between the new, passionate love she shares with Adam and the love and family she shares with Chris.
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Chasing Abby
(Shattered Hearts #4)
Synopsis:Book Four in the New York Times and USA Today best selling series.
Five years, six months, eight days….
It’s been eighteen years since Abigail Jensen was born with a gaping hole in her heart and five years since she collapsed on the soccer field and spent a harrowing three weeks in the hospital fighting for her life. Five years, six months, eight days since she found out she was adopted.
For five years, Abby has gone to sleep wondering about the family she never knew and waiting for her eighteenth birthday. But when her birthday finally comes, she hesitates. What if her birth parents want nothing to do with her?
A month after her birthday, Abby breaks the news to her parents that she will be moving in with her boyfriend, Tate. Lynette and Brian Jensen are adamant they will not pay her college tuition unless she lives with them. This is all Abby needs to send her searching for the parents she never knew.
When Abby and Tate show up on the doorstep of Chris and Claire Knight, they are overjoyed to see the little girl they lost eighteen years ago standing before them, beautiful and on the cusp of womanhood.
But the news of Abby’s rebellion leaves Chris and Claire conflicted. They agree to let her and Tate stay with them for the summer, to catch up on all the years they’ve missed. But when their visit comes to a close, and they encourage Abby to return home, Abby can’t decide what hurts more: feeling unwanted by her birth parents; being misunderstood by her adoptive parents; or the very real and painful hole in her heart.
Coming in 2014!
About the Author:
Cassia Leo
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cassia Leo grew up in California and
has lived in three different countries. She loves to travel and her dream is to
one day score a record deal based on her awesome shower singing skills. She is
the author of the Shattered Hearts series (Relentless,
Pieces of You, Bring Me Home) and the Luke and Chase series.
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