Books with title Before

Good girls finish last? Screw that.Being a small town girl isn’t so bad. Unless Mom’s the town joke and I’ve spent my entire life shying away from her flamboyance. College in Las Vegas should be so much cooler. But it’s not. Bad things happen. Real bad.So when my brother Reid offers me an all-expenses paid vacation to Australia for a month, I am so there. Discounting the deadly snakes on the outback cattle station, I should be safe. Until I meet Jack.Jack defines bad boy and then some. He’s big, buffed, bronzed, and hotter than any guy I’ve ever met. His sexy Aussie accent makes me melt. And the guy can cook.But he’s my brother’s new bestie and he lives on the other side of the world. There’s no future for us.Is there?

In her world of wealth, privilege, and reputation, the most prominent people can get away with anything. After she presses charges against her local celebrity attacker, she soon becomes an outcast to her friends and her parents who struggle to climb the social ladder. With her brother at her side and a new friend who pulls her out of her comfort zone, she soon sees that starting over is possible and better than before.

“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.”

This is a short story prequel to the Heven and Hell series. It is approx. twenty pages plus bonus material of the first chapter of Masquerade!What if your life was charmed and everything in it was perfect…Before.This is the story of my past. Of what things were like for me when everything was normal. Of what every teenagers life is like. Clothes. Parties. Boys and summer vacation. What’s so wrong with that? I liked it. I was happy. At least I thought I was.I didn’t know that lies and secrets were about to take over my existence. I didn’t know that there was someone out there, someone meant for me. I didn’t know that I was about to go on a journey, a journey that would lead me to the girl I am today.This is the story that leads up to one of the worst years of my life. Would I go back and change things? Erase everything that has happened to go back into these moments?Not a chance.This is a story of before.

True love doesn't always mean a happy ending. Presley and Landon finally have a chance at a real relationship when they travel back in time, but their leap backward to two months before his accident has altered reality: Landon has no memory of Presley. Hurt and lonely, Presley is still determined to save his life, even as Landon's death-date looms. He's alive for now, but nothing is like it was . . . Before.

I was a flower with no potI was a polka with no dot What did I do before you came along and changed the tune? Through simple, yet lively text and whimsical illustration, the love from parent to child, or lover to lover, or friend to friend, is celebrated. The perfect gift for baby showers, Valentine’s Day, birthdays, weddings, and beyond. Before You also works perfectly as a comforting and joyful read-aloud for parents to tuck their children into bed with. For fans of perennial favorites like I Like You and Guess How Much I Love You.

I was a flower with no potI was a polka with no dot What did I do before you came along and changed the tune? Through simple, yet lively text and whimsical illustration, the love from parent to child, or lover to lover, or friend to friend, is celebrated. The perfect gift for baby showers, Valentine’s Day, birthdays, weddings, and beyond. Before You also works perfectly as a comforting and joyful read-aloud for parents to tuck their children into bed with. For fans of perennial favorites like I Like You and Guess How Much I Love You.

Three years prior to LARKSTORM, Lark and her birthmate, Beck, attend her brother's binding ceremony. Lark’s nervously looked forward to this moment since the invitation arrived: a chance to see finally see her mother face-to-face and to meet her brother's new mate, Annalise. But she isn't prepared for the hostility they have toward Beck and the hint of something darker, lurking beneath the merriment.BEFORE is a short story set in The Sensitives world (35 pages).

What happens when mom is away and two brothers are left alone at home? Boredom sets in, of course!In Before, the first book in the GAZORE! series, Doug agrees to take his younger brother, Sebastian, to the mall on a boring day. Once there, they set out on the adventure of a lifetime by discovering the Create-a-Creature store where you can build your very own creature, dress it, put the brains in, and bring it to life!Wait–put the brains in?Begin the GAZORE! adventure here with Before and don’t forget to look for the rest of the books in this exciting series. A mix of prose and verse, not to mention a healthy dose of mischief and mayhem, GAZORE! is sure to satisfy the child in all of us.