{"title":"Carin Hart","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"really-should-stay-paperback","title":"Really Should Stay - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen he's obsessed with the one who got away...so his twin gifts her to him for Christmas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNicholas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are only two people in this world that I've ever cared about: my twin... and \u003cem\u003eher\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTamryn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiss Carlisle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy English teacher when I was in high school-and the woman I couldn't stay away from, even when she told me I should.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven when all of Shadowvale thought I should... as if I cared about that. Still, I did what was expected of me. I didn't pursue her until after I graduated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, after the fateful Halloween when I turned nineteen, I claimed her as mine-but, by Christmas, she was \u003cem\u003egone\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI didn't chase. That's always been Hunter's thing, and he tried to find her for me. I know he did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat I didn't know? Was that he never stopped searching-just like I never stopped thinking of Tamryn of mine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when Hunter one-ups last year's birthday gift to him by leaving Tamryn next to my Christmas tree this year, there's no doubt in mind about what I'm going to do with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnything I \u003cem\u003ewant.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTamryn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI made it a little over two years as a teacher before scandal had me changing my name, changing my looks, and walking away from the biggest mistake I ever made.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEleven years later, I have to admit that \u003cem\u003eleaving \u003c\/em\u003ewas a bigger one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicholas Reed. I knew what I was getting into when I went to his house that Halloween, but I thought it was okay. He was the one he pursued me, and he wasn't my student anymore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo. But when he killed my ex in front of me, then expected me to look past it, I knew that he was more trouble than I needed-especially when I end up being the cops' only suspect in Logan's murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI kept my silence about what Nicholas did, and, in exchange, he kept his distance. But as the years slipped by, I couldn't help but think I saw him there. Over my shoulder, in the reflection of a storefront window, even in my gated community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut it wasn't Nicholas, was it? It was his twin-and he's finally decided it's time I go where I belong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's time I return to Shadowvale and face the man Nicholas has become, and who I'm still inexplicably drawn to a decade after I saw him last... even after he makes me a deal that I can't afford to refuse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101607956703,"sku":"9781961594364","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VT0lGNXe_T9781961594364.webp?v=1781071815"},{"product_id":"bloody-wedding-paperback","title":"Bloody Wedding - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe's always belonged to him. She just didn't know it yet...\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLoni\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone in Harmony Heights knows about the Order of the Owed. A not-so-secret society, the men who get inducted are set for life. And the women they choose... there's no escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI thought I found one. The second I turned eighteen, I was gone. A new name. A new start. No expectations. When the day came that the new inductees plotted their lives, I wouldn't be a part of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd I believed that for more than a decade-until I received an invitation to my own wedding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI thought it was a joke. No way was I going to be forced into marrying one of the Owed. It wasn't going to happen-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-and, yet, there I was, dressed in white, about to get married to a man I didn't know anymore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhoops. Wrong again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the man who walked in on the ceremony, calmly shooting my 'fiancé' before taking his place?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI know him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdrian Heller. My biggest tormentor... and my biggest secret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdrian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor too long, I had to hide how I felt about Loni Dougherty. 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