*This is a standalone book #2 in the interconnected series, The Broken-Hearts. One week. No strings. Sexy stranger. What could go wrong? My name is Julia McDowell. I'm not the pretty girl next door, I'm the boss at work who solves all your problems. I'm an awkward genius with the worst taste in boyfriends; the last one left me with a 6-figure debt to prove it. So, when the most swoon-worthy man alive saves me from a psychotic tree, who am I to say no to a drink? He's sweet yet powerful with a darkness I can't place. I should be terrified of him, but I find myself drawn to him in ways I've never experienced. He says I'm his guiding light, that our hearts beat to the same melody. But I'm not looking for forever, and he has his own demons to slay. We agreed to one week, no strings. It will have to be enough. It's definitely enough, more than enough, until it's not. I'm ready to throw our one-week rules out the window when tragedy pulls us apart. It would take a miracle to find our way back to each other, and life is no fairytale. With no happily ever after in sight, will our hearts learn a new rhythm? Or will heartache become our new theme song? Click the BUY NOW button to enter the world of Broken Hearts and find out! The Beat of My Heart is a standalone HEA in the Broken Hearts Series. While it can be read alone, Avery strongly encourages you to read book 1, Cross My Heart first as the stories overlap. *Cross My Heart is a HEA stand-alone contemporary romance novel that deals with the aftermath of physical abuse and adult abduction that may be a trigger for some readers.

Candice and Sarabella became friends in college, not troubled by their race. They see past the color of their skin. Sarabella is a wealthy white twenty one year old and Candice is a African American twenty year old. The two college students go to Fordham University in New York and are roommates. Sarabella and Candice grow found of each other, they share their secrets and life while living as roommates. Sarabella has a boyfriend named Jonathan who wants to be a major league baseball player. He plays for Fordham University and is their top player. Johnathan was discovered to be unfaithful in his relationship to Sarabella. Sarabella struggles with taking him back, but because she loves him, they make it work. While Sarabella is growing into a woman, Candice is still trying to find her way in life. Candice meets a African American man named Olivier that she is smitten by. They go to a baseball game and they hang out together. Although Candice likes Olivier.She only sees him as a friend and is in love with Broderick. Candice's crush Broderick is already in a relationship and is in love with his girlfriend. Candice sees that and begins to come to her senses. She realizes that being with Broderick is a fantasy. Candice sees Olivier as more than a friend sometime down the line. Eventually she starts to see Oliver as a candidate for a potential lover. Olivier talks to Candice on the phone. While on a trip to San Francisco and they agree to move their friendship to lovers. Their relationship blossoms and they enjoy each others company. Jerry, Olivier's cousin got him into some trouble. While in San Francisco they kill a club owner.Olivier didn't want it to go that far but he wanted to get back to New York. In order for him to get to New York he had to rob someone that Pat, Jerry's friend knew. The guilt weighed on Olivier's mind, Sarabella is wanting to become an actress and gets a part in Wind In My Hair, where she stars as the main character. Before the audition she is worried that she wouldn't make it on time, and has a nervous breakdown. Jonathan calms her down and she makes it to her audition. She played the role well and got the part. Candice is also finding herself .She sings at bars and clubs with her band. She holds onto the dream that one day she will make it. Candice meets a record executive at a cafe she was performing at. The record executive likes what he sees in Candice. They talk and she is offered a record deal and she begins to perform and travel with Charles. Charles becomes likened to Candice and he desires her to be his companion. Candice is seeing past all his advances and she focuses on her career. Olivier is a successful lawyer and is in love with Candice and Candice feels the same love for Olivier. During this time Olivier is succeeding in his career. Jerry gets into some trouble that leads Olivier into doing Jerry a favor. As a favor to his cousin he meets the head boss of an Italian crime gang. He helps them with their legal cases and gets money for his services. Oliver gets paid extremely well so he continues to be involved with the mob. He starts to realize that he was becoming someone his mother didn't raise him to be, but because he was making so much money he didn't think of his morals.Candice and Olivier get married and for a while the relationship is good. But within the relationship, Olivier is holding a secre

The heart is our most important organ and perhaps our most mysterious. Every day it pumps 9000 litres of blood and beats around 100,000 times. But the heart is more than just a pump. In all major human cultures, it is seen as the source of love, sympathy, joy, courage, strength and wisdom. Why is this so? Having witnessed the extraordinary complexity and unpredictability of human hearts in the operating theatre – each one individual in its make-up, like a fingerprint – heart surgeon Reinhard Friedl went on a search for answers. He examined closely the latest findings in neurocardiology and psychocardiology, and in The Beat of Life he shares his discoveries. In the tradition of Giulia Enders’ Gut and Norman Doidge’s The Brain That Changes Itself, he uses riveting personal stories to illustrate the complex relationship between the heart, the brain and the psyche. The Beat of Life ends with a plea: that we recognise the heart’s wisdom and adopt a more heart-centred way of living, which will lead to greater health.

A book of poetry designed to bridge the gap between sufferers of Borderline Personality Disorder and their loved ones. Goes into graphic mental images of inner thoughts of self-harm, as well as moments of true inner ecstasy. Also goes into detail on how it feels to experience dissociation and the confusion it can cause.

His destiny is to free the Raizarch wolves from the vampire king … … but to do so he has to mate someone he doesn’t love. All his life, Toren knew he was different but could never understand why. Until a lone wolf—Zeveride—temporarily joins their pack. A handsome male with vivid green eyes, he takes Toren’s breath away and makes him want things he shouldn’t. For the Okami wolves, life is about the survival of their species. As the heir of the Okami king, Toren’s life is already laid out before him—the Okami king’s youngest son of mating age must mate the Raizarch king’s youngest daughter in order to fee the wolves. How can Toren refuse? And if he did, how would he ever live with himself? Yet, as disaster strikes and he and Zeveride grow closer, the harder it becomes for Toren to accept his fate. But when the lone wolf who’s captured his heart suddenly leaves, Toren tries to forget the male. Except he can’t. What’s worse, Toren can feel that Zeveride is in trouble. Get it now and feel the beat of your heart as these two wolves navigate an impossible love. **Warning: Contains a sweet MM relationship. For fans of Laurell K Hamilton, JR. Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon.

Reagan Matthews is having a really crappy year. She caught her husband cheating, now he's doing his best to sabotage her dreams, which includes the business she’s built from the ground up. Enter Carter Madsen, the man with a killer smile. As a bar owner and single dad, he has no time for a woman in his life. Especially a rich, snooty one. But there's something about Reagan that gets under his skin. Things are never as cut and dried as they seem, though. Someone doesn’t want Reagan to get on with her life and is willing to do anything to accomplish their goal. Will Reagan and Carter give in to the growing passion between them? Or will their love turn to ash, burning down with Reagan’s life?

Wanting her with every beat of my heart doesn’t necessarily mean we’re destined for happily ever after… I never really cared that everyone saw me as nothing more than the charming Calloway—the one who refused to grow up. Until I met her. Claire is sexy. Smart. Put together in a way I’ll probably never be. She’s also the single mom of one of my students, which means a relationship with her is strictly forbidden. Too bad that wasn’t enough to keep her off my mind. Or out of my bed. Now, the more time I spend time with her, the more I realize I’m in over my head. Falling for her is way too easy. The hard part will be convincing myself—and her—that I might be a forever kind of guy after all… Every Beat of My Heart, book 2 in the Calloway series is a sexy, sweet and spicy, age gap, older woman/younger man contemporary romance novel that can be read as a standalone.