Bøger af Susan Ann Wall

Infamous for her blocks on the roller derby circuit, Ballistic Miss L rolls with whatever life hands her. But Malinda Locke's fearless demeanor can't keep her wheels turning when she hears those dreaded three words: you have cancer. Having lost her brother to cancer, Malinda feels like her family is cursed. Determined to fight back without anyone knowing, she quickly finds keeping the secret from her best friend, also her brother's widow, is harder than accepting her fate. As Malinda faces life-altering decisions, she starts to rely on her derby friend Dex the Hall. Their attraction is undeniable, but circumstances dictate the relationship remain platonic. A jammer on the men's roller derby team, Declan Hall's as fast on eight wheels as he is to come to Malinda's aid. As a paramedic, he has a vast network to help Malinda learn about cancer and her options. Her reluctance to open her heart has him fighting the demons of his foggy and sordid past. AA helps him handle the alcoholism and spearmint gum staves the nicotine addiction, but not even the reality of cancer can deter the fixation he has for Malinda.

A cancer survivor who celebrates in silence... Aaron Hawkins is a reporter whose assignment is to report on the Relay For Life fundraiser that Hannah Locke's team is holding. But the news report turns into a love story he continues to pursue long after it's gone to press. He doesn't know loss the way Hannah does, but he knows fear and guilt, both of which resurface as he struggles with how to tell her that he survived the same cancer that took her husband. A widow who remembers the man she lost... Still heartbroken from the loss of her husband to cancer five years ago, Hannah has a simple formula for happiness that doesn't include falling in love. Her calculation stops adding up the moment she locks on to Aaron's mesmerizing eyes. Even the memories of the man she vowed to love forever can't keep her heart from learning to love again. And Hannah finds that Aaron's nice-guy charm and bad-boy sex appeal are only a small part of the man who brings happiness back into her life. A fight back where two hearts battle to be together... After Aaron confesses his love, Hannah has her own revelation and longs to surrender to the love she feels in heart. Then she discovers Aaron's secret and the memories of what she already lost to cancer have her running from him. Her efforts to get back to her simple formula turn futile, though, because her heart already belongs to Aaron. When she finally admits her love, their hearts vow to fight back against cancer together.

For Owen Landry, the world is perfect until he asks his girlfriend Stacie to move in with him. Shortly after she says no, with no real excuse except that his daughter is coming to visit, his ex-wife shows up at his door and starts doing what she does best - inflicting her poisonous ways on Owen's life. While trying to figure out if the one year old his ex left at his door is actually his son, Owen realizes he can't trust anyone and suspects the secrets Stacie is keeping are one more nail in the coffin of their doomed relationship. He turns to bourbon, his abusive father's answer to the problems that test a man and realizes he's more like the man than he ever wanted to admit. Stacie Nightingale wants to move in with Owen, but ten years with the wrong man has her reluctant to take that next step. She has to get past what she refers to as her Armageddon day, the day she was supposed to marry her ex and what would have been the biggest mistake of her life. While the looming date has her distracted, she knows when it passes, so will her feelings of dread and self-doubt. She doesn't want to hurt Owen, but he knows her too well to let her distractions just fade with the twilight. His ex-wife's timing couldn't be worse, and Stacie is forced to face her own demons in order to help Owen fight his.

Two years ago, Jenny Carter chose her career over the love of her life. Her career is soaring and she's on the cusp of her dream promotion. Jenny's too focused to even realize she's missing a key element in her happily ever after. When her ex-fiancé Ty Sullivan unexpectedly moves to Seattle, shock is soon replaced by suspicion as he steals her client and threatens her promotion. What Jenny can't deny though, is the way the one man she has ever loved still makes her heart race. For a second time, she'll have to decide if her ambitions are more important than her heart. Worse than the ultimatum he delivered in the heat of the moment, Ty regrets not leaving Boston with Jenny Carter. It took him two years, but now that he's in Seattle, he's determined to win her back, no matter what it takes. He's not surprised she's still holding a grudge, but her seething anger has him wondering how he'll ever break through to her passionate heart. When they fall into old habits, he knows they have to break the cycle, but earning her trust could be the biggest challenge he's ever faced.

Stacie Nightingale has quit her teaching job mid-year, left her fiancé without a word, and moved across country on an impulse. Even more reckless, the aspiring author has had a one-night stand with a man she doesn't even know...a man she discovers is her new neighbor. She soon finds herself in a relationship she neither wants nor wants to give up. Like the lingering effects of the car accident that caused her impulsive behavior, Stacie tries to ignore the way he makes her heart race. What she learns is that some things should never be ignored...or kept secret. Computer security expert Owen Landry has been divorced twice from cheating wives. That alone should make the discharged soldier gun-shy about jumping into a relationship with someone as secretive as Stacie. Owen has always ignored his instincts about women, but this time he's listening to his inner radar. He's ready to leave the past behind and forge a new life...with Stacie. Even though he doesn't like to keep secrets, he's scared his past will make Stacie run. Even if she can look beyond his past, her secrets cause him to question his own heart. Then he realizes she's suffering from post-traumatic stress and a traumatic brain injury that may as well be a ticking bomb. With their future in jeopardy, they find love is the best way to leave the past behind.

It's the best arrangement possible: a friends-with-benefits relationship with the man she's had a crush on for over a decade. Morgan Landry's commitment to her career, coupled with her goal of NEVER being like her mother is what has her going back to Bryan Curtis for more and more...and well, even more. The biggest challenge is keeping it from their coupled-up friends, including her overprotective brother, who are all on the road to marriage, the one destination Morgan has no intention of reaching. When the arrangement sprouts some complications and Morgan starts failing tests and running away from her job, she does her best to deny the true beat in her heart. Chief Petty Officer Bryan Curtis is married to the navy. He's seen too many marriages fail because of the demands of the military to crave that kind of commitment. Because he likes women, his shallow reputation of pursing blondes has earned him the title of man-whore, a moniker he's never minded until he crosses the line with Morgan. His loyalty to Morgan's older brother - Bryan's best friend - continues to eat away at him, but not enough for him to walk away from the women he's craved for over a decade. Bryan keeps the secret to keep her in his bed, but when his heart gets involved, he has to own up to his feelings and hope it doesn't ruin his friendship with his best friend or have Morgan jumping ship.

As co-host of an award-winning country radio show, Colleen Cooper is living her dream despite the steep price she paid to get there. She's no longer the young woman who narrowly escaped her would-be attacker in college. She's stronger. Wiser. Determined never to be that vulnerable again and ready to open her heart to the one thing she's always denied herself - love. Jake "JD" Donovan is best known as a country music playboy. After selling out to make it big in the industry, Jake is ready to live life without his record label's puppet strings. And he wants Colleen, the woman he's always loved, by his side. He intends to record music his way, but when months of anonymous threats escalate to a personal attack on his tour mate, it's clear someone doesn't want Jake breaking out on his own. Jake and Colleen find themselves falling into perfect harmony until she becomes a target. Jake's determined to protect her, but she's keeping secrets that threaten to undermine his plans. With her former lover as the investigating detective, Jake now has to prove he's not the one sabotaging his career. More importantly, can he convince Colleen to take a chance on the man's he's become?

When Jillian Butler moved back to Lilac Ridge to run the second chance animal rescue her aunt left her, she knew it was only a matter of time until the town learned of her fourteen year old secret. What Jill didn't expect was to run into the man with whom she created that secret. With billionaire Austin Hale insisting she let him adopt a dog, Jill has no choice but to face the man who shattered her heart and betrayed her trust. It's only after a single's auction to raise money for the rescue that Jill finds her stubborn heart being rescued from the one man she thought she could never forgive.

To finally leave the past behind, they'll have to trust ... their friendship, and especially their love. Stacie Nightingale doesn't want the 2.5 million dollars of blood money she's been awarded as a result of the lawsuit she filed. She also doesn't want the memories that are flooding her mind, causing her to remember everything that led to the car accident that killed her friend and left Stacie with a traumatic brain injury. Neither of those circumstances matter though once her boyfriend Owen Landry proposes to her. She doesn't want his proposal, not due to the circumstances that drove him to it. The mysterious woman he seems to be keeping company only fuels her insecurity and doubt. Stacie loves Owen, but with her past continuing to haunt her, she questions if their love is strong enough to survive. Owen Landry has been carrying the ring around for months, waiting for the perfect moment to propose. He has a plan, but when a gallery owner starts swooning over Stacie - and not just her paintings - Owen once again has to face the demons of his own past. His insecurities spike when Stacie not only refuses his proposal, but confides in her brother rather than Owen. He doesn't believe she would betray him, but his past has proven he can be a bad judge of character.