For the first time, a month after her twenty-second birthday, Maria, shadowed by her mother, greeted guests arriving at their seaside residential compound. Year in, year out, this was the most exclusive New Year’s Eve party on Earth. Yet one so shrouded i...
It's time to start overTo take chancesTo purge everything you don't needTo be happy, smile, laughForget the past, move onIt's not worth the trouble Let's move forwardNever stopping Always wanting to improve Have faith in yourselfKeep goingNever forgetting...
Cerise rode home quietly that night, and Mike glanced at her. "You OK?" "Yeah. Tired," Cerise replied, and looked forward. It had been an odd night. Some of the customers had come on a little strong, and so had the singer. Yet at the same time, Cerise had...
Cerise Adams stood in front of the worn mirror that was leaning against the wall of her room, staring at the clothes that she wore. It was a pair of black shorts and a bright red tee shirt that boasted the name of her uncle's bar in Portland, and it was h...
What if everything I did was wrong—blunder after blunder—who I married, how I raised my children, what I chose to do instead of something else,what I could have said but didn’t?What if I always missed the pointand thought I understoodand went this way ins...
How do I; love you without the insecurities and hurts from the past clouding my actions.How do I; stop comparing you to him? You love me totally and are a better man. How do I; believe what you say, do and speak, when my mind questions your actions.How do...
