Böcker av Jennifer Millikin

NOW OPTIONED FOR FILM/TV! Sometimes broken hearts need whiskey. Sometimes they need music. Other times, only a night with a stranger will soothe the pain. On the night Isaac and I met, we tried all three. When it was over, we went our separate ways. We planned to never see each other again, but I should really know by now that plans don't work out the way they're supposed to.It has been four years since that night, and it's a bizarre twist of fate that lands me in need of help only Isaac can give.I don't want to be attracted to him, but I am.I don't want my heart to skip a beat when it sees him, but it does.And I really don't want him to look at me that way, but he won't stop.Because things aren't like they were four years ago. And this time? We don't have the option of parting ways when the sun comes up.

Bestselling author Jennifer Millikin delivers a coming of age novel about first loves and second chances. EmberI was eighteen when Noah Sutton entered my life. He was destined for greatness, and I could barely scrape enough money together to help my mother pay our rent. We fell in love. A summer of pushing limits, breaking rules, and living in moments I thought would last forever. None of that stopped him from leaving. NoahAll my life I had one passion, one goal, a singular pursuit. Then Ember happened. A free spirit, a girl who didn't need music to dance. She filled my rigid world with the very thing I didn't know it was missing. I've always regretted leaving her. What's the point of realizing a dream if she isn't there to share it with? Getting her back won't be easy. She's moved on. My whole life has been one big competition, and it just so happens I've never accepted defeat.Game on.

To figure out why she's unlucky in love, an ambitious young woman turns to her estranged father and unwittingly ends up running his construction business, to the dismay of his grumpy, single-dad foreman.

I'm a soldier.A cattle rancher.>My family's legacy is spread out in front of me, just waiting for me to seize it. If it weren't for one outdated rule, I'd be the owner of the Hayden Cattle Company and my aging father could retire. When Dakota Wright shows up to buy and develop twenty acres of Hayden land, I see more than a pretty mouth and strawberry blonde hair. I see a way around the decree keeping me from getting what I want. And, as luck would have it, Dakota has a big problem of her own. We strike two deals: one for the land, and a second that'll make both our problems a distant memory. It isn't too long before I realize I'm in over my head. I've convinced myself the ends should justify the means, but everything begins to fall apart when my birthright is no longer all that I'm after. I never thought there'd be anything I could love more than my ranch and my country. >Turns out, I want it all.Including her.

"This story is far more than a romance. It's a story of healing and hope...of friendship and empathy. A story like this will sear you." - Angie & Jessica's Dreamy ReadsLife was roses. I was happy.I had my dream job. I'd finally fallen in love with the man who'd been waiting for me since he was a boy. Soon his four years in the Army would be over, and we'd be together forever. My perfect life was squarely in my palm.And then it was snatched from me.The harshest, cruelest truth became my reality.And I turned into a shell of my former self.Then a stranger arrived, wearing Army fatigues and closely cropped dark hair.Fulfilling a promise to his comrade-in-arms brought him to my front door. And the focus of his promise, it turned out, was me.His mission was simple: Care for me.Heal me.Bring me back to life.But what started out as an uncomplicated mission is quickly turning personal.He came here to take care of me.But neither of us expected how much he'd need me, too. And we definitely didn't expect these feelings.My broken heart knows how wrong it is.We'll fight it, harder than we've ever fought anything.I'm afraid to win, and I'm even more terrified to lose.Of all his missions, I may be his most dangerous.