C.M. Owens

When you live in a place where “turbo speed” internet is a slight step above dial-up, men carry on nine-year beard-growing challenges out of stubborn pride, and your brothers do things like nail all your panties to the outside of your cabin just for funsies, you tend to be a little crazy. You can call it a "locational" hazard, if you will.That’s Tomahawk for you.We rank people based on just how crazy they are. And the four craziest families in town are called the Wild Ones.I’m on the bottom tier of those, so technically I’m not as crazy as the other Wild Ones. In fact, if it wasn’t for my brothers and their endless antics, I wouldn’t be considered a Wild One at all. Ahem. Sure. We’ll go with that.Anyway, I have a best friend who endures it all with me. Benson Nolans is my one, constant favorite person.Without him, I’d probably go really crazy, and not the fun kind. It’d be ridiculous, after three years of a flawless friendship, to mess that all up by falling for him.I mean, even if we did get a little too close one night, it’d be reckless endangerment. Even if we did suddenly feel the chemistry that’s always been there and stop toeing the line, it’d be a foolish risk to take.It’d be stupid to start hoping a really fun, but completely irrational, night with zero inhibitions might accidentally happen.Really stupid…Right?*NO cliffhanger*Stand-alone book*Sexual Content*Adult language*Completely, 100% crazy

The Wild Ones, #1

Becoming a Vincent

The Sterling Shore Series, #4

Loving War (The Sterling Shore Series #4)

Property of Drex #1

Allie ThrashWren Prize is the asshole who got me pregnant seven years ago. And gave me a false name. And walked out of the hotel without a backward glance. Sure, I know I wanted to have sex just as much as he did, but I didn't want to be tossed aside like garbage the second it was done. I also wasn't planning to get pregnant. Now, after seven years of hating the jerk, I'm living in his city, because it's a small world and I found him by accident. Yes, I realize how crazy that must sound, but my luck is just that bad. The problem is, the Wren Prize of today is not the Wren Prize I've envisioned castrating all this time. And I hate that I can't hate him the way he deserves to be hated. In fact, I'm terrified I might just be stupid enough to be falling for him.Wren PrizeA daughter. I have a daughter. And I've missed over six years of her life because I decided to go for the world's biggest jerk award. I'm supposed to be the cool-headed one, the mature one, the one everyone goes to for advice. Yet I'm the one who fucked up the most. Sadly, I don't even remember that night. Too much fun, too much sun, and way too much booze. It's hard to ask for a second chance when you don't even remember the first chance you had. And every time I'm around Allie, even when she's casting me glares that prove she wants me dead, I can't help but wonder what that night was like. Well, what it was like before I ruined her.

The Sterling Shore Series, #6

A Redo

The cunning predator, the willing prey, and a weekend neither of them will be able to forget... ever. Ash Branderwood was told one thing before going to her best friend's brother's wedding - don't get Tagged.There's always that one guy you shouldn't want, but you just can't help yourself. He's going to be horrible for your health, he'll probably break your heart, but he's going to be so much fun while he's doing it. Stay away. Ash Branderwood can't seem to heed such logic when she meets playboy millionaire Tag Masters.Weddings always seem to create a false sense of intimacy, but Ash doesn't take that into consideration when she starts fantasizing about the man she can't possibly tame. She's a good girl... well, good enough. She's never really taken any chances or done something irrational or foolish. Tag is just the person to rectify that for her.Tag has never done anything but take chances. He never had anything to lose - so he risked it all and built his name up in Sterling Shore. Meaningless sex is one of his many hobbies, and he's not looking to settle down any time soon. After all, these are the best years of his life.But, one look at Ash, and he almost forgets his own name. And what in the hell is she doing at Wren's wedding with Bity?Tag is almost furious when he sees Billy Prize brought a girl as stunning as Ash, considering Tag doesn't feel as though Billy deserves such a thing. He has to have her... at least once... possibly twice.It was supposed to be a weekend of fun, one she'd remember just long enough to forget. But she quickly realizes there's one thing for sure... she's never going to be able to forget Tag Masters, only it isn't for reasons one might think.All hell breaks loose when secrets emerge, but when Ash's life is endangered, Tag has to put aside his own issues to keep her safe.

Tagged & Ashed (The Sterling Shore Series #2)

Fate is just a made-up word used to give us hope or absolution. We find hope when we believe bad things happen to us for a reason. We find absolution when we feel as though the wrongs of our past were just fate’s twisted design to bring us to our present, and all of it was out of our hands. Of course, I sort of change my mind after meeting Axle. The man with scars and haunted, cold eyes. The man who only warms when he is around me. The first man I believe won’t cost me my life. The first man I’ve ever believed to actually be honorable, despite the fact he’s a ruthless criminal.Only the craziest of fates could have put us in the paths of each other. More of a collision course, really.Life gets complicated. Shit happens. And I sort of fall harder than I thought possible.The first time we met, I was in my pajamas and cowering on the floorboard of his SUV, hiding from my very insane brother. Lovely first impression, I assure you.The second time we met, I was literally skating around a bunch of corpses, because I’m slightly crazy like that. Long story.Obviously my second impression had just as much impact as my first. Because he fell head-over-heels in love with me in that instant.Kidding. That last part is complete bullshit. Axle is far more complicated than insta-love nonsense. Which is one of my favorite things about him.Everything about us is perfectly complicated and wonderfully disastrous.It’s what every girl dreams of…as long as they’re as crazy as I am.And I’m just crazy enough to hold on, because I don’t mind being the psycho chick in roller skates, who is flipping fate the bird when it tries to intervene again. It’s just one of my quirks. Turns out, I’m Axle’s brand of crazy too.Life should be really freaking interesting. Or catastrophic. Or psychopathic.I guess it depends on how much madness you can embrace.*Adult language*Sexual content*Violence*Not fit for someone who loves rainbows in books. Never mind. There’s a rainbow in here.

Axle's Brand

What happens when one neighbor pisses off the other? They end up in a brutal prank war, of course. But neither of them expects what happens when they can’t break even.Rye ClantonI told myself a long time ago that I wouldn’t—couldn’t—fall in love. I’ve seen what happens, the things they don’t tell you in fairytales. But I never saw Brin Waters coming until she had thoroughly invaded my life. Until her, I never laughed, joked, or even knew how to have a good time. Until her, I just existed. If my secrets weren’t so dark… But they are.Brin WatersHow the hell do you go from hating someone to loving them? I don’t know, but Rye Clanton is good at it. However, he’s a walking contradiction that I can’t figure out, an enigma that has stumped me more times than I can count. But he’s the first person that’s ever made me feel alive—free. How do you give something like that up? Is loving him worth the risk of being destroyed?

The Sterling Shore Series, #5

Breaking Even (The Sterling Shore Series #5)

Some people make death beautiful... but we made life ugly...Our story isn't for everyone.Most people will probably hate it. Most people will probably hate us. I stopped giving a damn about what others thought a long time ago.Like I said, our story isn't for everyone. It isn't pretty. It's not sweet. It's not packaged neatly with a bow on top. No. Our story is painful, maybe even a little dark, but it's real. Somewhere under all the pain lies something beautiful. It's buried deep, so good luck digging it up.Our story might be ugly, but sometimes you don't appreciate beauty until you've seen the worst.It's real.It's pure.It's raw.Most importantly, it's ours.*Adult content and language*Not intended for readers under 18

Pieces of Summer

BELLANew life. New job. New home. New goals...I vowed to make drastic changes and to never fall back into old habits. But then Ethan Noles showed up and blew all my good intentions to hell. I should have stayed away. I shouldn't have played his game.But I did.Now I just hope I don't regret it.ETHANBella is the type of girl you can't help but chase, because she doesn't want to be caught. I came back ready to live and enjoy life. Not to get tethered to a girl. But... shit happens. Bella happens. And everything I thought I wanted slowly changes.*Graphic language*Adult content*And yeah, there's sex.CAN BE READ AS A STAND-ALONE

The Sterling Shore Series, #9

Perfectly Toxic

RUBY KROSSWho is Corbin Sterling to me? That's what people always want to know. He was my first friend. He was the love of my life. And he was my only heartbreak. The problem is that I love the big jerk, and I've refused to give up our friendship, even if it does mean it'll eventually ruin me. So, to answer the question... Corbin Fucking Sterling is the Bane of my existence; that's what he is.CORBIN STERLINGPeople tell you to learn from your mistakes, but the problem isn't learning from them; it's undoing them. I wish I could go back and undo a lot of shit. Maybe then I wouldn't feel tortured every time Ruby calls me her "best friend."This might be the last chance I have to make everything right, but she's sure as hell not going to make it easy. The games we play will either finally stop, or turn into what I've always wanted. This time I won't fuck it up. Hopefully.

The Sterling Shore Series, #7

Triple Dare

The Sterling Shore Series, #1

The Sterling Boys (The Sterling Shore Series #3)

Property of Drex #2

SALEMMaverick Sterling was never supposed to be more than one night...until he became the bane of my existence.MAVERICKSalem Wright was just a girl, until she came the girl I couldn't get out of my head.*Can be read as a stand-alone

The Sterling Shore Series, #11

Taming a Maverick

Poison's Kiss (book 2 Deadly Beauties).

Red Moon Secrets (deadly Beauties #3).

The continuation of the Deadly Beauties Trilogy...Purgatory was opened over twenty years ago, but more escaped than they realized back then.Gage Kross has distanced himself from women since his last heartbreak left him licking his wounds for a while. After an immortal lives for so long, there seems to be fewer and fewer new experiences, and history has a way of repeating itself. But Kimber is a girl he can’t help but try and break the cycle with, even though his mind keeps trying to dissuade the rest of his body from risking it.Kimber Devall is a visionless visionary with a few obsessive tendencies. The mystery of the secretive dark user is enough to draw her in, but it’s the man she discovers underneath the surface that makes her want to stay. Gage has always been the other guy, but to Kimber, he’s the only one.In a world full of secrets and deceptions, it’s hard to trust anyone. It’s even harder to love. But the seductive pull the immortals possess can sometimes gets things started whether they want it to or not.Although this is the first book of a series, there is not a major cliffhanger.

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