After a twenty-first birthday celebration I’ll never forget, I’m relieved to be moving back into the dorm with my best friend. Attending college a hundred miles away from Adam, our fledgling relationship is already hanging by a thread when he’s sent to Hawaii on business.

It’s just a few weeks. Adam and I can get through this. 

But Chris has other plans.

He wants me back. And I can’t deny the way my heart flutters when he flashes me that crooked smile or talks about how much he wants to meet our daughter.

With Adam in Hawaii, Chris seizes the opportunity to reunite me with Jackie, reminding me of how much I’ve missed my home. My family. 

Can I give this all up for a chance to start over with Adam? Or should I give Chris and me — and our family — a second chance?

Just when I think I have the answer to this question, Adam makes the decision for me.

Live the truth...

The truth about Hallie has torn Houston and Rory apart for a second time. Houston is finally unburdened of the secret his sister confided in him, but now he must deal with the aftermath.

He has vowed to set things right for Rory, and he's determined to get her back. But the destruction left in the wake of Hallie's letter is not the only obstacle he must face. Houston must find a way to win Rory back by showing her their story isn't over yet.

…or live the lie.

In her desperation to move past the anguish of Hallie's secret and Houston’s lies, Rory seeks solace in Liam. When Liam is transferred to another tech company in California, Rory jumps at his invitation to leave Portland, and her broken heart, behind. In California, Rory finds a friend who opens new doors for her in the literary world. But does this new friend have ulterior motives?

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When I encouraged Chris to leave town to pursue his dreams, I didn’t realize it would be the biggest mistake of my life.

Now Chris and I are fighting for the right to see our daughter, and Adam and I…are just fighting.

With Adam back from Hawaii, and our relationship still on pause, his charmingly awful jokes take on a hard edge. And my indecisiveness seems to be testing his patience.

But Chris seems more willing and determined than ever to make my dreams come true—the same way I did for him when I let him go.

With Adam’s former girlfriend in the picture, I find myself torn between the fresh start Adam has offered me and the family I’ll always share with Chris.

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Book two in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series.

It was a silly bet. I never imagined it would tear my carefully crafted world apart...

When Adam Parker walks into Beachcombers Café, I think he’s just another flirty customer. Until he nearly runs me over with his truck later that night, and I find out he’s none other than my new upstairs neighbor. 

A relentless pursuit leads to a harmless date in his new apartment, which leads to a bet that has the potential to implode my entire life.

The bet is simple: If Adam can get me to reveal the secret that made me drop out of college, I have to re-enroll. If he doesn't succeed, I get to keep my secret, and he has to stop stalking me at the café and at home.

I have this one in the bag. I’ve perfected the art of forgetting my past. 

But I’m not prepared for Adam to share his own secrets. And I’m definitely not prepared for Chris to come banging down my door one year later with my secret — and his shattered heart — in his hands. 

With Liam’s fate no longer in the balance, Rory and Houston are poised on the precipice of a life-altering decision. When Rory’s father arrives in California to comfort Rory and make amends, Houston finds the decision becomes much easier to make. 

When Houston suggests they take a break Rory thinks he must be joking. But he’s not. And his timing couldn’t be worse.

With Houston and Rory vowing to keep their new friendship strictly outside of the bedroom, their friends and family seize the opportunity to draw out the torture and surprises. Ensuring that Houston and Rory’s story has an ending they’ll never forget.

Who can be trusted? Who’s wearing a mask?

I left my former life – and my mask – behind.

Running from a past where I was born unloved. A past where I was betrayed by love.

Running from an organization with limitless power and stealth. Running for my life.

I never expected to find love on the run. Not in a tiny seaside town on an island in the middle of nowhere.

Not without my mask.

But it seems as if my sad story is being rewritten with someone else’s pen. But whose pen is it?

This question haunts me day and night. And I get my answer on a perfectly decadent evening. When I come home to find my bedroom perfumed with the scent of death.

He’s here.

"Unexpected, beautiful and will not be forgotten" - Winding Stairs Book Blog

From New York Times best selling author Cassia Leo, comes an epic love story about rewriting destiny.

Three chance encounters… Two heart-breaking tragedies… One last chance to get it right.

Mikki and Crush have crossed paths twice before, but they’ve never met. Their first encounter changed Mikki’s life forever, but their second meeting left them both scarred from a violent attack.

Three years after the attack, Mikki and Crush both book a flight to Los Angeles to escape the memories of the past and expectations of their families. Crush plans to record a song he wrote for a girl he doesn’t even know: Black Box. He’s never felt his life had any purpose, until he meets Mikki in Terminal B.

When Mikki and Crush cross paths for the third time in Terminal B, neither has any idea who the other person is; until they slowly piece together their history and realize fate has more in store for them than just another love story.

My entire life has been unmasked.

Everything I thought to be true has been called into question.

Whom do I trust? What do I believe?

With two men promising to keep me safe and one promising to give me my life back, which path do I choose?

Masked or unmasked?

"Cunning and ruthless... Knox is the definition of alpha male."

Rebecca hasn't seen or heard from her mob boss father in four years, but she's about to receive a message from him that will throw her life into chaos. She thought she left the crime family, and the painful memories, behind when she went into law enforcement. She never expected to be abducted by a smoking hot stranger. But when this stranger makes Rebecca an offer too tempting to refuse, she finds herself dragged into one of the most ruthless vendettas of the century.

Knox Savage is well known as the infuriatingly sexy CEO of Knox Security and a notorious bad boy. What most don't know about Knox is that he loves helping high-profile criminals escape justice. He makes no judgments about guilt or innocence. And he doesn't do it for sentimental reasons. But he's about to take on a case that's going to get very personal.

From New York Times bestselling author Cassia Leo comes a deliciously dark and sexy new series.

I was born into this world unwanted.

I spent the first hours of my life unloved.

I spent the first eighteen years of my life with the parents who tried to shelter me from the harsh reality of my existence.

But you can’t un-write a sad story if the ending is literally written all over your face.

So I moved out and now I hide. I have a night job that pays the bills. Every night, I put on my mask and walk to work.

Then one night, I hear and see something that will change my purpose in life... forever: a murder that will bring him to me.

He says he wants to protect me. And, through a series of events I can’t fully make sense of, I find myself believing him. 

But our nightly visits are always cloaked in darkness. I don’t know his face and he will never know mine. 

I was born into this world unwanted. I will leave this world unmasked.

A steady stream of meaningless sex is all Tristan has left when he discovers the grandmother who raised him is dying and his best friend is getting married. He is lost; and the dark secrets in his past keep coming back to remind him of this.

Until Tristan has an idea that will change his life and fulfill his dying grandmother’s wishes: Abandon his playboy ways and settle down.

And who better to do it with than Senia, the girl who has occupied his thoughts since their scorching hot tryst in the back of his sports car. The girl who makes him laugh and feel like a kid again.

But when his world begins to crumble around him, the pain Tristan is hiding finds its way to the surface. Will Tristan finally learn to trust again? Or will he abandon Senia when she needs him the most?

The day I meet Chris is like any other day. I’ve been kicked out of yet another foster home. The moment I see the piercing in his lip and the tattoos on his smooth skin, I know I won’t last long here.

I’ve never been so happy to be so wrong.

With a patience I’ve never known in my short, tumultuous life, Chris and his mother show me it’s possible to trust again. And when no one’s looking, Chris shows me it’s possible to feel loved. 

Unfortunately, he’s my foster brother. I can be kicked out of the only home I’ve ever known if anyone finds out about us.

But these are the least of my worries when Chris is offered a record deal. I know he won’t take it unless I force him to. 

I have to do the unthinkable. I have to do it for him.

I was born into this world unwanted.

I spent the first hours of my life unloved.

I spent the first eighteen years of my life with the parents who tried to shelter me from the harsh reality of my existence.

But you can’t un-write a sad story if the ending is literally written all over your face.
So I moved out and now I hide. I have a night job that pays the bills. Every night, I put on my mask and walk to work.

Then one night, I hear and see something that will change my purpose in life... forever: a murder that will bring him to me.

He says he wants to protect me. And, through a series of events I can’t fully make sense of, I find myself believing him. 

But our nightly visits are always cloaked in darkness. I don’t know his face and he will never know mine. 

I was born into this world unwanted. I will leave this world unmasked.

Rory and Houston are living a seemingly perfect life in their picturesque house on the lake, but all is not as rosy as it seems. Rory’s discontent with the new yuppie lifestyle she feels she’s supposed to adopt is bleeding into all aspects of their marriage, and Houston is not at all pleased. Will the stress of Rory’s first book signing bring them to the brink?