Bøker av Brandi MacCurdy

Torryn lives an ordinary life; she's busy entrepreneur, doting mother, and content wife, in a quiet cul de sac. She has almost everything she has ever wanted in life but can't imagine things being any different. A chance encounter with a handsome new neighbor triggers missing pieces and nagging resentments in Torryn. Almost instantly, Torryn has to face unearthed feelings and disregarded needs in order to determine what she really wants out of her life and who or what it may destroy.

Abandonment issues run deep in Amelia Bonds. Her scarred history spoke for itself, and each day proved to be a repeated challenge. Anchored only by those triple her age, Amelia moved through her life, fighting her own battered beliefs, and being tortured by well kept secrets. When some of those from her past slowly return to her sanctuary in the cove of Port Quincy, her buried memories and haunting reactions return as well. Can anyone help Amelia through the turmoil she's been drowning in or will she finally find the strength to save herself and banish all her tightly held fears.

Diving into a new world of characters and experiences, Escape thrusts the readers into a journey marked with shocking surprise, shattering defeat and unconditional acceptance. The biggest obstacles in life are the ones we never see coming and the ones we cannot escape from. Tara Porter is an astute seventeen-year-old girl who is concerned with the simple things in life: school, her best friend Bella and her high school crush, Joel. Stepping out of her comfort zone and on the cusp of having everything she's ever dreamed about with Joel, her life is suddenly turned upside down with no warning. Forced to leave everything - and everyone - that she's ever cared about, Tara is faced with the reality of having no control over her situation. She is determined to return to those that were ripped away from her and nothing will stop her. A chance meeting with bubbly blonde Jessica and her magnetic step-brother Scott throws Tara into a different kind of tailspin. Soon Tara realizes that destiny has other plans for her and that her own assured plan to escape may not be what she wanted after all.

Alyson Crowley had experienced nothing but heartbreak, despair and grief in her years of growing up in coastal Florida. Her emotions had been stunted, turned off and locked away since she made her getaway to Chicago not long ago. However, beseeched duty to her older sister Theresa in a time of need drags Alyson back to her childhood home and all the resentment that had begun there. Learning how to participate in a life with her family again proves to be challenging. Alyson is resistant to let herself feel anything, but one conversation with a co-worker of Theresa's seems to changing things against her will. Alyson had long given up on love, kindness and caring, but Cole Spier and his welcoming blue eyes are bound and determined to breakdown all of Alyson's internal walls. Reluctant and confused, Alyson must decide if she's ready to become the person she has always secretly hoped she could be.