Bøger af Lisa Rector

Chad refuses to live at home with his grandparents now that his mother is gone, even if that means living in his van near the beach. As long as he has air in his lungs, a surfboard, and a paint brush, he's living the perfect life.Until he meets Maggie, the new girl who works at the sub shop across the street from the beach. Looking into her eyes, Chad realizes there are more important things than art and surfing. Suddenly being homeless seems more like a secret to be kept rather than a declaration of freedom.Although Chad never knew his father, he leans on his surfing instructor, Buddy, for the kind of advice a seventeen-year-old kid needs when facing the temptations of first love.A weekend without supervision reminds Maggie and Chad how badly they need the guidance of their parents and renews Chad's desire to find his father.But can Chad set aside his freedom and his surfboard long enough to find himself and a life beyond seventeen?

She's hiding in her present.With nothing but her guitar and a few belongings, Hope Flanagan escapes the abuse and negligent from her mother's boyfriend. Hope's lucky enough to find a warm exhaust vent in an alley of her coastal town and blessed with help from a coffee-shop employee who sees her desperate situation. But Hope is determined to stay under the radar from social services and the other homeless kids, who seem to go missing once they fall under the notice of the local homeless tough girl.She's hiding from her past.Grace James works with the police to help survivors of abuse while desperately fighting to keep her own family safe from her vindictive ex-husband. News of her husband's release from prison pushes her to accept help from the handsome and secretive Officer Joe Hart. But then her mother brings home a stray from her coffee shop, and Grace finds herself catapulting through her fears to do for Hope what she just might not be able to do for herself-find out who she really is to save her before it's too late.

Too many basketballs and not enough kissing.All Matt Bailey wants is to focus on his position as starting point guard for the varsitybasketball team. When an epic kiss and a social media scandal forces him into thearms of the beautiful and spunky Trina Wynter, he finds himself in a fake relationshipwith a girl just crazy enough to think she can take on the world.When Trina gets cut from the girls' basketball team, she thinks her senior year iswasted, until a closetful of basketballs and two hundred sprigs of mistletoe bring everyathlete in Grand Haven High School together for a good cause, and a great excuse formore kissing.Basketballs and Mistletoe is a stand-alone novella in the All's Fair in Love and SportsSeries: Running to YouMeet Me at Half CourtPass Me the BallStrike Three, You're Mine (Coming Spring of 2020!

At sixteen, Sammy has her sights set on track state finals and never pays much attention to the college guys who come every summer to help her mom at their bed and breakfast. But that's before Brandon. He's athletic, and mysterious, and not that much older than Sammy. Brandon takes the job to help pay for college. It sounds easy: live in the apartment above the garage, be the handyman and groundskeeper, and then run off to the dorms in the fall. He doesn't count on finding a family.He doesn't count on Sammy running off with his heart.When tragedy strikes in Sammy's life, Brandon has to make a choice. Be the big brother Sammy so desperately needs, or admit his feelings run much deeper.

Amberlyn didn't realize her boyfriend was spending more time with her best friend than with her. Betrayed and publicly humiliated, she needed a box of tissues and a shoulder to cry on. Aiden was happy to supply them. Having a crush on Amberlyn for years, he was secretly glad her boyfriend had dumped her. He may even have participated in the events that caused the breakup. But he couldn't focus on that when he needed to train for the upcoming baseball season. With Amberlyn still crying over her ex-boyfriend, scouts vying for Aiden's attention, and betrayals coming out of left field, they have so many strikes against them, they may never hit a home run.

Doug refuses to join the cheer team, no matter how badly they need him or how talented he is. As the best wide receiver on the Buccaneers' football team, his Friday nights are full.But when his next-door neighbor and best friend, Emma, asks him to help her teach the new kid, Preston, how to perform stunts, Doug can't refuse. Especially now that he realizes he has feelings for Emma.Emma has been practicing cheer stunts with Doug since they were kids. When she sees that Preston needs a guy to demonstrate the correct way to lift a cheerleader, she pulls Doug off the football field and onto the sidelines.His growing attraction to Emma, and his obvious talent as a cheerleader, forces him to choose sides. Does he abandon the football team to join with the cheerleaders? Or stay and give them something to cheer for?

You will love this sweet and clean romance!Twenty beautiful women and only one of them knew Brock's real identity, so why were they both keeping it a secret?Rejected by the leading lady on the reality show Love Letters, Brock was ready to take his place at center stage. He knew he could pass himself off as a regular guy and loved seeing women's reactions when he told them he played video games for a living.What he didn't tell them was that he had a Master's degree in video game design, was international reigning champion in several competitions, and a billionaire.But one woman knew the truth, and she wasn't telling the others. Or was she?Cora recognized Brock right away, being a gamer herself. The guys at her work had dared her to come on the television show, Love Letters because she refused to date anyone from their small community, and because they knew she was obsessed with the show. She figured the likelihood of actually being chosen by the leading man was pretty slim. Nineteen to one, actually.When Cora realized Brock was hiding behind his screen name the way a famous author hides behind his pen name, she decided to play along. But how long would she play games with his heart? Long enough for another woman to prove to Brock that she cared more about him than his wealth and position?Who Wants to Marry a Billionaire Gamer? is Book Two of the Love Letters Series. You will love Who Wants to Marry a Mormon Girl? Love Letters Series Book One. Both can be read as stand alone novels.