Bøker av Jay McLean

As a kid, Logan Preston was a brat.Through his teens, he became the bad boy.Now, at nineteen, no one knows what the hell to expect.High school dropout, Logan Preston is a good-for-nothing stoner.A black sheep.A disappointment.The worst Preston Punk of the lot.At least that's how everyone in his small town makes him feel.But Logan Preston has secrets.Secrets so dark and so deep below the surface that the only way he can fight them is to stay high, high, high.He wears cockiness as a mask.Arrogance as his armor.Until one girl, one night, asks one life-changing question:What's beneath the bravado, Logan Preston?

Ava Diaz needs saving.She just doesn't know it yet.Just like she doesn't know a thing about the boy she sits next to on the first day of senior year.He thinks she's a brat.She thinks he's entitled.Maybe first impressions don't always last... Because Connor Ledger's about to save her.He just doesn't know why.Heartache and Hope is mature young-adult Sports Romance, 80k full-length novel and is the first book in the Heartache Duet

In a sprint, every millisecond counts.When you're waiting for love, those milliseconds can feel like eons.High school senior Lucas Preston has it all: star of the track team, a scholarship waiting for him, an apartment to himself and a revolving door of girlfriends.He also has an older sister, five younger brothers and a father who relies on him to make sure those brothers don't kill each other.His saving grace? Lois "Laney" Sanders, a girl he started to fall in like with when he was just eleven.A girl who became his best friend, his confidant, his courage.It took only sixteen clicks and eight seconds for Lucas to realize that his like for Laney had turned into love. Eight life-changing seconds.It's also the exact length of time it took to lose her.

One life-changing summer. One boy.The boy.The boy who offered me safe touches and heart-stopping smiles - smiles he shared with his son.We filled our days with porch-step kisses, filled our ears with laughter, filled our hearts with love. Deep, soul-aching, desperate love.But love is misleading.It's an invisible, fleeting moment.Somewhere between false adoration and pure hatred comes an emotion, a vulnerable need, a single desire.It lives within the ones who miss it, who crave it, who know better than to expect it.Love is relentless.Even when that love turns to hate, turns to loathing, turns to pain. Love should heal you. But it can also break you. Believe me, I know...Because I'm Becca Owens - a broken girl......And he's Josh Warden - the boy who broke me.

There's no emotion greater than fear.No ache greater than grief.No sound greater than silence.***I'm grateful he showed up on my doorstep, pissed off and angry at the world.If he hadn't, I wouldn't be here.And I don't just mean here on this journey with him.I mean here, in this world.*I wonder what events in all our lives-hers included-are The Turning Points?The points where we all determine that the fear of our pasts and the uncertainty of our futures are greater than our need for happiness.Here.Now.While time and everything around us stands unmoving... who's to say we can't have it all?***We wanted it all.We wanted it with each other.We thrived on the chaos we created.And ignored the Mayhem that ensued.Because falling in love was easy.But sometimes, love isn't enough.

There's a single defining moment within every skater. It lasts only a second. Two if you're good. Three if you're really good. It's the moment you're in the air, your board somewhere beneath you, and nothing but wind surrounds you. It's the feeling of being airborne. The sixteen-year-old version of me would've said it was the greatest feeling in the world. Then at seventeen, I had my son. And every single second became a defining moment. Even the ones that consisted of heartbreak when his mother left us. Seventeen. Single. Dad. That's what my life became. Yet, every day, I managed to find that feeling of being airborne. Or at least I convinced myself I did. But I lied-to myself and to everyone around me. Until she showed up; Tanned skin, raven dark hair, and eyes the color of emeralds. You know what sucks about being in the air? Coming down from the high. Sometimes you land on the board and nail the trick. Then kick, push, and coast away. Other times you fall. You fall hard. And those are the times when it's not as easy to get back up, dust off your pads and try again. Especially when the girl with the emerald eyes becomes your drug... And you become her poison.

-LUCY-There is a love so fierce it cannot be measured.A heart so strong it will never slow.There is a promise so sure it can never lie.He promised me that love forever. Even when it wasn't enough.-CAMERON-Forever. Everlasting. Eternal.There is no measure of time.No sounds of the ticking of a clock.Just the rising and falling of the sun.nd our own sense of forever. But our forever isn't always.

We live in a world of darkness and shadows, where monsters hide and aim to ruin.And they did.They ruined us and turned our dreams into nightmares.But now we're back.And we're fighting.Not just for us, or for each other, but for our light

In a world full of secrets, heartache, and betrayals, they only have one thing on their mind: redemption. But with redemption comes destruction. And that destruction might cost them their hearts. *Kyler Parker is not one of the lucky ones. Abused and neglected until he was sixteen, Kyler needed an out. A way to escape. Now, at twenty-four, Kyler's past is knocking on his door, offering a deal he has no choice but to take.*Unwanted from the day she was born, and then discarded, Bailey's only plan in life is to make it through to the next day. One hopeless night, one wrong decision, and one pull of the trigger changes everything. *Nate DeLuca was born into a life he didn't want. Forced to walk a path that was already chosen for him. Grandson to a mob boss, he's forever torn between his duty, his honor, his legacy, and the truth. But the truth is never simple, and it's not at all what it seems. *Some villains are made. Some villains are born. And some villains aren't villains at all.

It's said that your life flashes before your eyes when you die.It must only happen to those whose lives are worthy.Clearly, Bailey's life is not. Unwanted from the day she was born, and then discarded, Bailey's only plan in life is to make it through to the next day. But one hopeless night, one wrong decision, and one pull of the trigger changes everything. Not just for her, but for Nate DeLuca too. Born into a world of crime, he had his entire life planned out for him. He wasn't supposed to find her that night.He wasn't meant to capture her, either.And he sure as hell wasn't meant to save her. Sometimes villains are born. And sometimes... heroes are made.

Please note that this is the second book in the series and should not be read prior to reading More Than This. "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."For every choice you make there are rewards, or there are consequences.It was my choice to walk away the first time. And my choice to chase her the second.But sometimes you don't get a choice, and all you get are the consequences. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."Unless that someone is Logan Matthews.Because loving him didn't give me the strength to walk away.It didn't give me the courage to fight for him.And when it was over, all it gave me was a broken heart.

We all play victims to our pasts, to the choices we make and the lives we create.They define who we are.And sometimes if we're lucky enough, the past stays where it belongs: in the past.Kyler Parker is not one of the lucky ones.He has never been.Abused and neglected until he was sixteen, Kyler needed an out. A way to escape. And he found it in the most unlikely friendship. But at seventeen, tragedy struck, and he made himself disappear. Now, at twenty-four, Kyler's past is knocking on his door, offering a deal he has no choice but to take... a deal that will help bring justice-not just for him, but for his brothers.The problem?He's distracted by the girl across the hall. Madison comes with her own past, her own secrets... and her own deal. And those deals? They're ticking time bombs.Ones they didn't know existed.Tick.Tock.