The XOXO New Adult Collection: 16 Full Length New Adult Stories
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Authors: Brina Courtney,Raine Thomas,Bethany Lopez,A. O. Peart,Amanda Aksel,Felicia Tatum,Amanda Lance,Wendy Owens,Kimberly Knight,Heidi McLaughlin
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The XOXO New Adult Collection
16 New Adult stories by 16 of your favorite authors
My Unexpected Forever | Heidi McLaughlin
Tattooed Dots | By Kimberly Knight
OTHER BOOKS BY KIMBERLY KNIGHT
Chapter Twenty-Three-Francesca
Chapter Twenty-Seven-Francesca
Cade’s First Month of Rehab | Chapter Thirty-Cade
Cade’s Second Month of Rehab | Chapter Thirty-Two-Cade
Chapter Thirty-Three-Francesca
Cade’s Third Month of Rehab | Chapter Thirty-Four-Cade
Grand Opening | Chapter Thirty-Six-Cade
Chapter Thirty-Seven-Francesca
Chapter Twenty Seven | LISBETH
CHAPTER ONE | Love and Las Vegas
A RISK WORTH TAKING | By | HEATHER HILDENBRAND
Unintentional Virgin | By | A.J. Bennett
The Fall of Sky | ~Part One~ | A Serial Novella | By | Alexia Purdy
Stealing Promises | By Brina Courtney
Move | Episode I | By Brina Courtney
The Fireside Series | By Morgan Black
The collection contains these books:
Heidi McLaughlin –
My Unexpected Forever
Raine Thomas –
For Everly
Bethany Lopez -
Indelible
Kimberly Knight – Tattooed Dots
Felicia Tatum –
Mangled Hearts
Amanda Lance -
Breakdown
Anna Cruise -
Maverick
Wendy Owens –
Do Anything
AO Peart –
Resist Me
Amanda Askel –
The Man Test
Heather Hildenbrand –
A Risk Worth Taking
AJ Bennett –
Unintentional Virgin
Alexia Purdy –
The Fall of Sky
Dani Hart –
A Firefighter’s Flame
Brina Courtney –
Stealing Promises
Morgan Black –
Fireside Series
The XOXO New Adult Collection
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Heidi McLaughlin
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HAPTER 1
Harrison
The music sheet doesn’t make any sense. I’ve been over it a hundred times or more and it’s still all a blur. I know the lyrics and the beat, but everything I put down is a mess. Liam is expecting something from me by the time band practice starts in an hour, and I’m not going to be able to deliver. My mind is consumed with thoughts of love and lust and there isn’t jack shit I can do about it.
I rip my ears buds out and move away from my computer. I can’t do this, not today. Not after seeing her last night. I hate that I can’t tell her how I feel. I hate that when another man looks at her, I feel nothing but murderous rage. I want to be the
only
one looking at her.
I’m a fool to think she wants me, with my full-sleeved tattoos and rocker lifestyle. I know I can offer her more than those other men. A stable home, financial security and a man who will worship and kiss the ground that she walks on. But I’m not the one you can take home to mom or to the school PTA meetings without being stared at. I know she doesn’t want that. Enough people stare at her now.
I pull out a clean sheet of paper and write down more lyrics. More touchy-feely shit that I wish I could tell her. Instead, I show up almost daily with something to offer her; coffee, lunch, or a free lawn mowing job because I can’t, for the life of me, get it through my head that I’m nothing more than just a friend to her, and that’s all I’ll ever be.
I write down six words before tearing the paper up. I know why Liam tasked me with putting the music down for these songs, but they’re mine. I hadn’t planned on sharing them with the band. I think he’s trying to get back at me for all those things I said about him falling in love when he returned home for his buddy’s funeral. Now that it’s my turn, he’s sitting back and laughing his ass off. I ought to write some heavy shit. The head pounding scream-your-lungs-out shit that I sometimes think about. Either way, we need new songs and we’ve all been taxed with producing something.
But no, that isn’t who we are. We’ve skyrocketed with Liam’s heartfelt ballads and rocking personal stories that make women fall in love with us. They all think we’re tortured souls and in need of companionship. Little do they know that Liam has only written about one woman. Hell, even I didn’t know about it until he upped and left Los Angeles for the quiet, mundane life of Beaumont.