Portia Moore

This is not your typical happily ever after... Lauren Brooks wants to do three things: Escape the small town she grew up in, get accepted to her dream school in Chicago, and graduate without drowning in debt. Now she's working her ass off to do just that. With a full course load and a waitressing job at one of the hottest night clubs in Chicago, she does not have time for distractions;namely ones who only want to get into her pants. She's been burned before. Only a fool goes for a second round.. With just two semesters left until graduation, everything's on track. Until she meets Cal. Enter distraction. At six-foot-two, with ebony hair, deep grey eyes, and a smile that could only hide an agenda, she knows he's trouble. And for the first time in her life, a little trouble might be just what she needs. No what she wants. It isn't like she'd ever marry the guy. Until she does. What she thinks will be her happily ever after, is only the beginning. Cal has a secret. One that makes loving him come with a price, and being his wife cost more than she bargained for.

If I Break

Authors Note: This is the second book in the IF I BREAK series. I would highly suggest reading the series in order. The first book in the series is currently free. Lauren Brooks fell in love with Cal Scott at twenty one, married him at twenty two and had her heart broken at twenty three when he walked out of their marriage. At twenty five, while raising their daughter on her own, Lauren is finally moving on with her life...until she learns the reason for Cal's abandonment. The walls she had carefully built around her begin to collapse. The day she meets Chris, all those feelings she thinks she has bottled up tightly come spilling out. She can't afford to give in to her heart's desire again. Love nearly broke her once, and her daughter doesn't need two broken parents. Christopher Scott is in love and newly engaged to Jenna, who saw him through an illness he didn't think he could survive. He's finally settling into the life he's always wanted, and he's making plans he only dared to dream before now. That's when a woman named Lauren arrives on his doorstep. She's intriguing, beautiful and, try as he might, he can't stay away. The closer he gets to her, the more his rock-solid plans begin to crumble. All he knows is that Lauren is the missing piece to a puzzle he must solve. For him to put all the pieces in place, he'll have to follow his heart, and that might cost him everything...

Almost Broken

The conclusion to the If I Break Series.Cal’s back and his arrival changes everything.Lauren knew it was coming but what she didn’t think he’d bring with him was an ultimatum.A choice.One that Lauren feels trapped under. A choice she’s unsure will make a difference but could possibly change everything.The ultimatum isn’t the only thing Cal’s got with him but answers. The ones Lauren so desperately craves. But the truth won’t only affect the lives of him and Lauren but everyone around them…and not everyone wants the truth to come out.The thing is Cal doesn’t give a F……There are two sides to every story. In this one there’s three.

Beautifully Broken

Before I Break

This is book 4 in the IF I Break Series. It is strongly suggested to start at book 1 which is currently free. When you're heartbroken, it lies beneath everything that you do. It's in all of who you are. Foreshadows who you'll be. It hides underneath your smile, rests between your laugh, revels in your tears and taunts your every thought. You wish it away but are too terrified to let it go.... When Cal first disappeared I swore my heart had broken, and before all of this is over I swear it will shatter into pieces.

Shattered Pieces

He was forbidden. I knew it. He was never mine to have. He belonged to someone else. His heart wasn't free to give. Still I craved him. I begged him for it. His love was addictive. Our time was never enough. He shattered my world like I’d shattered everyone else’s. It was all fun and games before. I didn't think about what would happen after.

What Happens After

M. James

Growing up poor on the rough side of Indiana didn’t make my life easy. It made it hard. My mom worked two jobs and didn’t have time to read me many fairy tales. We couldn’t afford the princess costumes or the trips to expensive magic kingdoms. My life was black and white, and a hint of grey was the most I had to look forward to…until I met Zachary Rostov—tall, beautiful, with a perfect smile. Unfortunately, as with most stories, ours had to come to an end. When I turned nineteen, after escaping the soul-sucking pit of Indiana, one bad decision almost destroyed everything. The way my story had been written up to that point meant my dreams of more should have come to an end. But it was the same day I met Vincent Jamison, and if my life were a fairy tale, he would have been the prince who had come to save me. I don’t remember in any of those stories being saved coming with a debt.

Claimed

What Happens After...

What if there really is no such thing as happily ever after? Til death do us part. My wedding day to Vincent Jamison feels like exactly that—a death sentence. An imprisonment in a gilded cage, from which there’s no escape. No salvation. Only a lifetime of pain. Of knowing what I’ve lost. Everything. But when the threat to his family and business upends our wedding celebrations, I’m given a chance I’d never thought I’d have again. A month in a safe house with the man who was once the love of my life, with no one else but my bodyguard and Sonya, who’s in no condition to do anything about what Zach and I both want. A second chance. It’s supposed to be a reprieve. One last glimmer of happiness before I go back to the hell that I consigned myself to. Something to hold onto when things get truly dark. After all, Vincent is my only future. Or is he? There’s secrets I still don’t know. A twist of fate that I hadn’t seen coming. And when the dust settles, a chance that I’m afraid to believe in. A chance that I could be freed. The Claimed series comes to its heartstopping conclusion in the final book of the series, Freed. This book is not a standalone and is meant to be read in order.

Freed

There are ugly truthsand pretty lies.When I lost themI chose neither.I wrapped myself in silence.My husband, my best friend, became a stranger who gave up.Then....He moved next door, and everything changed.You think you know this story, but you don't.Be careful what you ask for because the answer may not come the way you think

He Lived Next Door

Our history made things harder. We were associates out of convenience. We tolerated each other. I never saw her that way. She never saw me that way. She and I were never meant to be friends. You’re not supposed to fall for your best friend’s enemy, even if the enemy is YOUR ex-best friend. This isn’t the story of falling in love with your best friend. It’s about falling out of hate.

The Trouble With Before

Alex I want Madison the moment I lay eyes on her. But I’ve got my work cut out for me because someone before me broke her heart and destroyed her trust. She's my friend, that's all she wants but I'll do everything I can to convince her that we should be more. I need us to be. I’ve got to prove that not only am I different, that we belong together. I feel it in the marrow of my bones. She’s my soulmate and I’ll do whatever it takes until she believes it too. Madison I thought I’d found “the one.” Rich, handsome and amazing in bed. Everything a girl could want right? Well, if only he didn't have a wife. So now I’m done. I'm supposed to be. But then I meet Alex, the scorching hot bar tender who becomes not just my friend but my best friend. Did I mention he's hot, has a body to die for and is my biggest fan? He's everything a girl can want, but this girl is done with love. If only I could convince my heart to stop beating so fast when he smiles at me, and my body from craving his touch.

A Steamy Friends To Lovers Romance

Collided

Cal's back, and his arrival changes everything. Lauren knew it was coming, but what she didn't think he'd bring with him was an ultimatum. A choice. One that Lauren feels trapped under. A choice she's unsure will make a difference but could possibly change everything. Cal doesn't just have an ultimatum; he has answers. The ones Lauren so desperately craves. But the truth won't only affect the lives of Cal and Lauren but everyone around them...and not everyone wants the truth to come out. The thing is, Cal doesn't give a f.... There are two sides to every story. In this one, there's three.

Before Him

This bundle includes the prequel to IF I Break Before Him, If I Break, Before I Break and Almost Broken. “Think of the worst breakup you ever had. If it didn’t end with your boyfriend asking you for a threesome the day after taking your virginity, I’ve got you beat. All I’ve ever wanted was to experience a love like my parents had. They told me all those stories about love when I was a little girl, and how it’s the key to living happily ever after. Well, I started to think those were all lies. Love is a trick, and it doesn’t exist. Who needs romance when it only ends with you crying your eyes out? So I went on strike two years straight: no love, no men… and it was going well! But then this guy Steven smiled at me and then his best friend Michael kissed me and, well, this story is so complicated there has to be a good ending to it. Right? Or maybe my Fairy Godmother’s a major bi-tch.”

If I Break 3 Book Bundle

I never thought love was something I could ever have. At one point I had been fooled with some version of it—lust wrapped up in a package resembling love—but when I met Alex I realized everything I ever felt for anyone before was just a cheap imitation. What I had with him was new, exciting, authentic. For the first time in my life I saw a future for myself that included someone else. And for the first time I wasn’t afraid…until I met Alex’s dad and saw that fate wasn’t going to give me a break. It wanted to decimate me. If Alex ever finds out the truth, it will crush me. It will crush all of us.

Crushed

Love.It's something I never wanted and decided I'd never have.Love nearly killed my mother. It devastated and destroyed her. I promised myself I'd never be captured or ensnared like she was. Love deceives. It isn't genuine.It doesn't last. It's just poison...a silent killer. The one taste I got nearly killed me but I was fortunate enough to escape it.But then I met him, and love didn't just catch me. I collided with it.

Love is something I've always been afraid of so I guarded myself from it. When I met Kam he changed everything. He smashed down the walls I had so carefully constructed around myself. He illuminated a world I didn't think could ever be possible for me, that the dream I protected could become a reality. But Kam doesn't know that my walls are up for a reason. *** When I met Alana I wanted her from the moment I saw her. Tight black material hugged every curve of her body. She stood on heels sharp enough to slit a throat. Plump red lips…it was like she was straight out of Maxim—any man's fantasy—but behind the sex appeal, smart mouth, and edginess…is something else. And I plan to peel back every single layer to find out what.

My life exploded in a matter of moments. One bad decision led to another, and what should have been the happiest time of my life became the worst I ever experienced. I never wanted to fall in love. It just happened. I’d do anything to avoid losing it, but I have to think for someone else now. It isn’t just me…but I will do whatever it takes to make things right. I’m committed to it.

Committed

Love. It’s something I never wanted and decided I’d never have. Love nearly killed my mother. It devastated and destroyed her. I promised myself I’d never be captured or ensnared like she was. Love deceives. It isn’t genuine. It doesn’t last. It’s just poison…a silent killer. The one taste I got nearly killed me but I was fortunate enough to escape it. But then I met him, and love didn’t just catch me. I collided with it.

Portia Moore

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