ABOUT THE BOOKS
ABOUT THE BOOKS
One young man, one desperate decision.
Being a teenager is hard enough, but when you have a diagnosis of depression and anxiety, life can feel like it is caving in on you. When you add in a new awareness of your sexuality and falling in love for the first time, life can become almost too much to bear. Ben Harper is determined to make it all work with the help of his best friend and new love, JC Croft. But when his inner demons conspire against him, can he come out on top, or will the pressure crush him?
Michael Croft, a sensitive and artistic teenager, is trying to decipher his father's tragic and complicated legacy. Then, life presents Michael with the opportunity to help his childhood friend Sadie. He agrees, knowing he would do anything for the girl he loves. When tragedy strikes the young couple, Michael makes a promise that begins to tear his life apart. But he has a guardian angel watching over him. Can his father's broken past help him face life as it should be? Or will Michael turn his back on the lessons of the past and sabotage his own peace?
Ben Croft and Adella Johnson come from two different worlds. Ben's a high school football star who likes the party girls. Adella is autistic and prefers the majesty of the horses she works with to the social awkwardness created by teen boys. But for Ben, there's just something about the unpretentious, pretty blonde. So, when his usual charms don't work on her, he drops the act and gets real. They form a quick and powerful bond. It seems almost from the beginning that the world is working hard to shred everything that ties them together. And it just might succeed when each is faced with a future they never saw coming.
At what point will defining Riley become a matter of life or death? Is a legacy left by someone he's never met the only thing that can save him from himself? Riley Johnson has always carried one label or another. He's the ranch kid, the bully, the jock, the closeted bisexual, the wild kid, the son of the town drunk. But these are all labels placed on him by others. Who is Riley Johnson really, in his own eyes? Starting with the death of someone he loves, Riley's world begins to fall apart. As he tries to keep his head above water, he's faced with a choice. He can live down to the labels and be the Riley everyone believes him to be, or he can search within himself and the hearts of those who care about him to find out who he really is and who he will someday become.
⚠️WARNING⚠️
THE BOOK BELOW IS AN ADULTS-ONLY SEQUEL TO ANGUISH.
It can be read as a standdalone. If you are 18+ and you want to read it as part of the series, it should be read after Anguish, but before A Promise to Sadie, Adella's Heart, and Defining Riley.
How do you move on when your heart is shattered in a single, tragic moment? James Croft fell for his one true love in high school, only to lose him to suicide. How can he move on from the tragic moment that irrevocably changed his life?
Dr. Trevor Alexander lives for his career, until the day his former patient’s angry, disillusioned father walks back into his life. Suddenly, Trevor wants more. Desperate to put the past behind him,
James reluctantly decides to date the sexy doctor. But maintaining a relationship is easier said than done. Can James come to terms with his past? Can Trevor accept what his lover can never forget? They must try, because there’s no future in the past.