Christina Hart

The companion chapbook to the bestselling Empty Hotel Rooms Meant for Us. Rather than holding on to lovers, past and present, this collection of poetry focuses on the art of letting go.

Letting Go Is an Acquired Taste

This collection of poetry focuses on dismembered loves, present and past, as past lovers aren't actually in the past for the author. She carries parts of them with her, even though their hearts are no longer hers.

Empty Hotel Rooms Meant for Us

There will be days when you completely fall a p a r t and that's okay. There will be days where your ribs feel like blades. Let them cut you. There is beauty in the bleeding. There is hope in the healing. Christina Hart, bestselling author of Empty Hotel Rooms Meant for Us and Letting Go Is an Acquired Taste, releases her first full-length poetry collection. This collection focuses on the idea that from pain comes growth. That one thing leads to another. And if you look hard enough, there is beauty in it all - even the hurt. Warning: This book contains sensitive content depicting sex, violence, abuse, drugs, and addiction.

There Is Beauty in the Bleeding

(Ruin Me is Part 1 of The Summer of Secrets Series. It is a 30k-word novella, and can be read as a complete standalone, or as the first part of the interconnected series.)Eleanor "Kitty" Bordeau, the baby of three sisters, lives by rules of the heart.Too young to remember their lives before the tragedy, she's always gotten away with being impulsive and responsibility-free.And after running away from everything she ever knew, with heartbreak at her heels, passion only existed in the form of poetry.Now, two years later, she's back in her hometown, where her muse still haunts her.But when heartbreak-also known as Joey Madden-catches up to her, Kitty decides to rewrite her story. And this time, she won't allow his lies to once again ruin both their lives.

Second-Chance Small-Town Romance

Ruin Me

Alan Shaden may look like your average Tinder crush - 6'2," dark hair, dark eyes, dimples - but with his rugged exterior comes a soft and battered heart, and his biggest secret (literally), which he keeps hidden in the back of his closet. Alan doesn't stop to think he's a sex addict until a therapist deems him one, but that's right before they have sex in her office. Alan isn't the best man. He's the first to admit it, but he's trying to be better. It's not easy having good intentions and compulsive desires at the same time. As Alan's layers peel away, you come to know the worn soul beneath the man. The traumatic childhood tragedies that have made him this way. A troubled past can shape you, or break you, and Alan is teetering somewhere in between. But he's a gentleman at heart, hiding a dark past, and a life-size, synthetic secret. Sabrina is a doll. She can't move. She can't talk. She can't kiss Alan back like a real woman can. She can't even tell him she loves him. But what she can do for him is something no woman has ever done before: she can stay. Who said love had to be with a real person for it to be real?

Synthetic Love

Have you ever seen your name splattered in ink? Have you ever been tied to the murder of the girl who claimed the love of your life?Lovina "Love" Landry has. At just seventeen, she's lived a life full of grief, trauma, and various mental illnesses. So it's not surprising when her infatuation with Charlie O'Sullivan--the foster boy from D Street in Southie, with the shy smile and warm eyes--quickly turns into an obsession. On a one-track mission to steal his heart, Love soon discovers it's already taken, by his girlfriend, Tracy Ellis. The sun-kissed girl with the golden hair, dazzling smile, and seemingly perfect life. Why should she get everything?Reset.Remove Tracy.Love now finds herself in prison, accused of Tracy's murder. She can't recall the details, only the blackout. You're probably wondering if she did it. If she killed Tracy and took the smile away from the girl who had everything going for her. If Love is the monster the articles will tell you she is. It's the million-dollar question, what everyone wants to know, including Love.Because she too wonders if she did it.Maybe she did.

The Gorgeous Slaughter

Lizette August, 24, is a blunt and sarcastic Jersey girl who goes to the city to have her tattoos removed. But when she gets more than she bargained for and winds up a vampire in love with the man who turned her, she must determine why he's building a little cult of rebels and misfits for revenge, and outsmart both him and his enemies in order to keep him - and herself - alive. (Explicit Content Advisory: This material is intended for mature audiences.)

Fresh Skin

From the bestselling author of Empty Hotel Rooms Meant for Us, Letting Go Is an Acquired Taste, and There Is Beauty In the Bleeding comes a new poetry book, written in the voice of the author's fictional character Kitty Bordeau (from The Summer of Secrets Part 1: RUIN ME). This poetry collection is a chapbook focusing on love, loss, heartbreak, familial ties, and learning how to forgive your first love and subsequently, how to fall in love with them all over again.

Our Water Graveyard

Christina Hart, bestselling author of Empty Hotel Rooms Meant for Us, Letting Go Is an Acquired Taste, and There Is Beauty In the Bleeding releases her new poetry chapbook, written in second person POV, which focuses on love, loss, and hope.

Don't Tell Me to Be Quiet

(Ruin Me is Part 1 of The Summer of Secrets Series. It is a 30k-word novella, and can be read as a complete standalone, or as the first part of the interconnected series.) Eleanor “Kitty” Bordeau, the baby of three sisters, lives by rules of the heart. Too young to remember their lives before the tragedy, she’s always gotten away with being impulsive and responsibility-free. And after running away from everything she ever knew, with heartbreak at her heels, passion only existed in the form of poetry. Now, two years later, she’s back in her hometown, where her muse still haunts her. But when heartbreak—also known as Joey Madden—catches up to her, Kitty decides to rewrite her story. And this time, she won’t allow his lies to once again ruin both their lives.

The Rosebush Series, Volume II In all the years since Ethelyn's disappearance, no one else in the Jaslove family had been lucky enough to see Lilia Valley - until now. Ethelyn's journal of her travels to Lilia Valley was a family secret, a keepsake that had been passed down from daughter to daughter, and finally to Adelina. But when Adelina loses the journal, she soon discovers that it wasn't just lost - it was stolen. And she'll stop at nothing to get it back, even if that means risking her own life in the process.

Woods and Ash

Ethelyn is fed up with Orenda's antics and she's determined to stop the old queen, no matter what it costs her. Meanwhile, Orenda is still seeking revenge for losing the crown in the first place. With a little help from her old friend, Nevlin, Orenda devises a plan to take back Lilia Valley - and the throne - but Ethelyn won't give up that easily, leading to a showdown between the human and the half-sorceress.

Rose and Dust

When seventeen year old Ethelyn Jaslove stumbles through a rosebush into Lilia Valley, she finds herself engaged in a battle of wits with Queen Orenda: the half-human, half-sorceress who wants to enslave Ethelyn as an elfakit - one of her soulless servants. Ethelyn must fight to keep her soul intact and stay alive for the sake of her widowed mother and the folk of the valley. Ethelyn has always struggled to fit in at Sunnyside High in New Jersey, but she finds a sense of purpose in Lilia Valley when she learns that a seer has predicted that there will be a war - with a human girl at the center of it. The folk of the valley are depending on Ethelyn to save their land from the grips of Queen Orenda. To make matters worse, Ethelyn learns of a secret and is sworn not to tell; it would mean the death of her beloved Lyric - elfakit of Orenda's. Only, the secret could save the land. When she manages a way around it and outwits Orenda by uncovering the secret and providing a voice for the woman who was truly meant to be queen, she is given an opportunity far too unreal for a teenager to imagine.

Lavender and Smoke

A novella about two sisters, Lora and Isabel, who live on opposite ends of the spectrum while living under the same roof. While they were once close friends, they are now living completely separate from one another and are hardly speaking at all. Lora, deemed the bad, troubled sister by her mother, is the over-analytical narrator of the story. She is plagued by thoughts of uncertainty and constant fear of the unknown. Once a misinterpreted girl in and out of psych wards and therapy, Lora is now a fairly mild-tempered loner who has lost trust in people because of her past. She was bullied and tormented by her peers while her sister, Isabel, beautiful and popular, was seemingly living a perfect life. Lora grew to resent her sister, feeling Isabel abandoned her during the most miserable time of her life. The narrative tale takes place during one single day; a day in which Lora decides she is somehow going to change her ways, quiet her restless mind and overpower her fears.

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