Books with author Jim Ellis

One young manOne desperate decisionBeing a teenager is hard enough, but when you have a diagnosis of depression and anxiety life can feel like it is caving in on you. When you add in a new awareness of your sexuality and falling in love for the first time, life can become almost too much to bear.Ben Harper is determined to make it all work with the help of his best friend and new love, JC Croft. But when his inner demons conspire against him, can he come out on top or will he be crushed by the pressure?

One young man's desperate decision leaves a legacy that will forever change the lives of three teens in need.Anguish: Being a teenager is hard enough, but when you have a diagnosis of depression and anxiety life can feel like it is caving in on you. When you add in a new awareness of your sexuality and falling in love for the first time, life can become almost too much to bear.Ben Harper is determined to make it all work with the help of his best friend and new love, JC Croft. But when his inner demons conspire against him, can he come out on top or will he be crushed by the pressure? A Promise to Sadie: Michael Croft, a sensitive, artistic teen, is trying to decipher his father's tragic and complicated legacy.Then, life presents Michael with the opportunity to help his childhood friend Sadie. He agrees, knowing he would do anything for the girl he loves.When tragedy strikes the young couple, Michael makes a promise that begins to tear his life apart.But he has a guardian angel watching over him. Can his father's broken past help him face life as it should be? Or will Michael turn his back on the lessons of the past and sabotage his own peace?Adella's Heart: Ben Croft and Adella Johnson come from two different worlds. Ben's a high school football star who likes the party girls. Adella is autistic and prefers the majesty of the horses she works with to the social awkwardness created by teen boys. But for Ben, there's just something about the unpretentious, pretty blonde. So, when his usual charms don't work on her, he drops the act and gets real. They form a quick and powerful bond.It seems almost from the beginning that the world is working hard to shred everything that ties them together. And it just might succeed when each is faced with a future they never saw coming. Defining Riley: At what point will defining Riley become a matter of life or death? Is a legacy left by someone he's never met the only thing that can save him from himself?Riley Johnson has always carried one label or another. He's the ranch kid, the bully, the jock, the closeted bisexual, the wild kid, the son of the town drunk. But these are all labels placed on him by others. Who is Riley Johnson really, in his own eyes?Starting with the death of someone he loves, Riley's world beings to fall apart. As he tries to keep his head above water, he's faced with a choice. He can live down to the labels and be the Riley everyone believes him to be or he can search within himself and the hearts of those who care about him to find out who he really is and who he will someday become.

Isaiah Masterson - Can you believe it? First, my lifelong best friend leaves town without so much as a goodbye and stops my world cold. Fast forward one miserable year and my parents are divorcing and sending me to my uncle’s wilderness summer camp for three months. At seventeen, the last things I need are campfire songs and pine needle crafts. There was no way life could ever get better. That is until my missing best friend walks into my cabin at Western Breezes Summer Youth Camp and I realize that I have more than friendship on my mind.Spencer Jackson - Some might think the worst day of my seventeen years was the day I left my best friend and long-time secret crush without ever saying goodbye. But that wasn’t it by a long shot. The worst day of my life was dark, evil and the reason I couldn’t let Isaiah know I was leaving. As my parents drove us out of Los Angeles, my life as I knew it, as I hoped it would be, was over. I could never go back. Or so I thought until my former crush showed up in my cabin at the wilderness camp. I’d been given a second chance to create the future I wanted. But I wasn’t so sure I could break free of the past, even with Isaiah’s help and the promise of a love I never thought possible.

Ben Croft and Adella Johnson come from two different worlds. Ben's a high school football star who likes the party girls. Adella is autistic and prefers the majesty of the horses she works with to the social awkwardness created by teen boys. But for Ben, there's just something about the unpretentious, pretty blonde. So, when his usual charms don't work on her, he drops the act and gets real. They form a quick and powerful bond.It seems almost from the beginning that the world is working hard to shred everything that ties them together. And it just might succeed when each is faced with a future they never saw coming.

At what point will defining Riley become a matter of life or death? Is a legacy left by someone he's never met the only thing that can save him from himself?Riley Johnson has always carried one label or another. He's the ranch kid, the bully, the jock, the closeted bisexual, the wild kid, the son of the town drunk. But these are all labels placed on him by others. Who is Riley Johnson really, in his own eyes?Starting with the death of someone he loves, Riley's world beings to fall apart. As he tries to keep his head above water, he's faced with a choice. He can live down to the labels and be the Riley everyone believes him to be or he can search within himself and the hearts of those who care about him to find out who he really is and who he will someday become.

Michael Croft, a sensitive, artistic teen, is trying to decipher his father's tragic and complicated legacy.Then, life presents Michael with the opportunity to help his childhood friend Sadie. He agrees, knowing he would do anything for the girl he loves.When tragedy strikes the young couple, Michael makes a promise that begins to tear his life apart.But he has a guardian angel watching over him. Can his father's broken past help him face life as it should be? Or will Michael turn his back on the lessons of the past and sabotage his own peace?

Ben Croft and Adella Johnson come from two different worlds. Ben's a high school football star who likes the party girls. Adella is autistic and prefers the majesty of the horses she works with to the social awkwardness created by teen boys. But for Ben, there's just something about the unpretentious, pretty blonde. So, when his usual charms don't work on her, he drops the act and gets real. They form a quick and powerful bond. It seems almost from the beginning that the world is working hard to shred everything that ties them together. And it just might succeed when each is faced with a future they never saw coming.