K. L. Shandwick

What happens to you when you love someone with all of your heart, but that love now has nowhere to go? Heartthrob, Cole Harkin counted his blessings with a gorgeous wife and the couple's excitement of a first baby on the way. Just when he thought his world was complete, Cole becomes devastated and overwhelmed when his future is ripped out from under his feet. With little choice in the matter, Cole has to face living another life... A very different life to the one he thought he and Grace had planned.

Another Life

Alfie Black has everything he needs to pass scrutiny as a rock star. He's a drop dead gorgeous specimen of a man. Rough around the edges and still flawless to look at. Alfie is a jaw dropping, pantie melting, tattooed bad boy. Add tall and athletically toned with a fabulous face, eyes and smile and it's easy to see he'd be going places. Ticking most of the boxes required as the lead singer in a band, the last part of the equation many not have mattered much. However, Alfie is an incredibly, talented singer and musician. Women want Alfie. Men want to be Alfie. So gifted, Alfie is given opportunities to progress both as an artiste, with his band Crakt Soundzz, but also share to his passion and pass his knowledge on to others at music college. Alfie's journey in life should be going in one direction, but his sole focus is on taking care of his responsibilities. Circumstances in the background dictate what he needs. And what he is willing to accept. This is something he isn't willing to compromise on. Focused and determined, the last thing Alfie needs is a distraction. What Alfie wants and what is happening in his life are poles apart, but he is determined to keep going no matter what. For now, it he thinks it's enough. That is, until he meets Lily, the English girl who arrives at college to study music in Miami. Lily is Alfie's equal in many ways, musically gifted, stunning and in a different league to any girl Alfie has ever known. She is focused and driven. Single minded about her one passion in life. Music. The only thing Lily has ever wanted in life is to play and play well. When Lily's journey crosses Alfie's life path, what ensues for the both of them is a complex ride of emotions and feelings. Neither of them, despite all of their combined attributes are equipped to deal with. Alfie is emotionally locked down, both from past experiences and his current situation. Lily is sexually naive and inexperienced. When their world's collide there are far reaching consequences for the both of them, which neither expected. How can Alfie and Lily be together? Alfie shares his thoughts, feelings and emotional conflict in his story.

Love with Every Beat

At fifteen years old, Valerie Darsin, was loved and cherished by her brothers and boyfriend. Her small town world was happy and secure until a sudden betrayal forced her to flee. Returning home, Valerie found support in Flynn Docherty-a guy who left her with unfamiliar feelings when he disappeared from her life. Valerie learned to move on, until a life-changing event brought Flynn back, but was she ready? Has she ever been Ready For Flynn? (A contemporary rock star romance).

Ready for Flynn

Lily's friends in London regard her as having the whole package. Smart, beautiful, and musically talented, she's finally realised her dream to study in the USA, by securing a music place at college in Miami. She regards herself as worldly, having lived the London life and travelled to Mumbai to work in an orphanage in the past, so felt more than able to cope with living and studying abroad. On arrival in Florida, everything on the surface seems to be running to plan. That is, until a chance encounter on campus with a stunningly handsome, charismatic, rock-god-like musician, Alfie. Alfie leads her into a no-strings sexual relationship with him. Until she arrived in the USA, Lily had tried to avoid personal relationships with the opposite sex, not wanting anything to affect her plans. She was sexually naïve but after meeting Alfie, she convinces herself she's able to deal with what Alfie is offering her. What follows takes Lily on a roller coaster of emotions. However, after a surprise visit from Max, her friend and room mate's brother, Lily is left questioning her morals. At college Lily quickly teams up with Will, a handsome sax player, who helps her develop her creative ideas and performs with her as a duo in the Miami music scene. A series of bad choices in her relationships with Alfie, Max and Will, create emotional turmoil for Lily which leaves her doubting her judgement about men. Each of the three men has a special place in her heart for different reasons. She realises that she's no match for Alfie and tries to resist his attention. He's told her he can't love her, but wants to be with her physically, arguing, sex between them is enough. The reality for Lily is she knows enough isn't everything.

He Thinks What They Have Is Enough...but She Wants Everything

Enough Isn't Everything

Abbastanza... Non è tutto. Everything

Life had never been easy for Rock God, Flynn Docherty. At a tender age, he'd locked down past personal tragedy, hurt, and pain to make his life bearable when most would have crumbled from what he witnessed. When Valerie Darsin entered into his life their instant attraction later grew into the kind of love that most of us can only dream about, after she'd survived her own traumatic event. In many ways, they were two hearts that beat as one sharing a love so profound and rare they were destined to be together. Can two damaged people with tragic pasts really be what each other needs? Unlucky in love, Valerie's trust issues are never far from the surface and with her past full of hurt, and a man like Flynn, can Valerie ever truly accept how he feels? Driven in business Valerie is a ball-breaker but less confident in affairs of the heart. Do values like trust, honesty, love, and commitment really survive in a world where a rock star has millions of followers who are willing to do literally anything for their idol? (The last installment of the emotional love story in the Ready For Flynn series).

K. L. Shandwick

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