Recommendations based on "The Way We Become (The Way I Used to Be)"

"Beautiful, real, and devastating…this book will forever have a spot on my all-time favorites shelf."—Sarah J. Maas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Throne of Glass[From the New York Times bestselling author of The Harbinger SeriesLena Wise is always looking forward to tomorrow, especially at the start of her senior year.She’s ready to pack in as much friend time as possible, to finish college applications and to maybe let her childhood best friend Sebastian know how she really feels about him. The upcoming year is going to be epic—one of opportunities and chances. Until one choice, one moment, destroys everything.Now Lena isn’t looking forward to tomorrow. Not when friend time may never be the same. Not when college applications feel all but impossible. Not when Sebastian might never forgive her for what happened.For what she let happen.Lena knows that her only hope is to move on. But how can she move on when her entire existence has been redefined? How can she move on when tomorrow isn’t even guaranteed?Praise for If There’s No Tomorrow:"Thought provoking and powerful."—#1 New York Times bestselling author Erin Watt"Moving and necessary, essential and powerful, If There’s No Tomorrow belongs in everyone's hands. You won't be able to put it down."—Brigid Kemmerer, author of Letters to the Lost and the Elemental seriesAlso from #1 bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout:The Problem With ForeverThe Harbinger SeriesThe Dark Elements Series

From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros comes a brand-new small town, older-brother’s best friend standalone romance.“I’ll take them!”That’s what I tell the social worker when my pre-k student and his baby brother need an emergency foster placement. I’ll do anything to keep the brothers from being split up. But my apartment’s flooded and there’s only one house I can take them to on such short notice…his.Knox Daniels, my older brother’s best friend, offers his new place without hesitation. He’s not moving back to our tiny town until next month—that’s when all our hotshot firefighters are returning for their one and only chance to rebuild our fathers’ fallen, iconic crew.It doesn’t matter that I’ve been silently in love with Knox since we were kids.It can’t matter that we pretend that reckless prom night kiss never happened.It won’t matter that my feelings for him could destroy his lifelong friendship with my brother and threaten the certification of their hotshot crew.Because I’ll be out of his house long before he gets back.Except Knox just walked in…a month early.And the icing on this awkward cake?He’s gorgeous as always and I’m covered in baby puke.He takes one look at the boys and tells me we can make this work—We can temporarily fake a relationship to keep them from being separated by the system.Suddenly, everything matters.

When Will Wright, the eighteen year old son of a small-town Arkansas sheep herder in 1905, begins reading his mother’s journal, he is inspired by its startling content to start putting his own experiences to paper for posterity. An unsophisticated but principled young man, Will is becoming increasingly aware of the hatred that exists in the world. When he begins his own journal, Will can’t know what events are to take place in the next five years – from his mother’s battle with a life threatening illness, to his embarrassments of learning how to be in love for the first time, to witnessing Charlie’s fate at the hands of the bigoted townspeople. While part of him wishes the pain in those pages didn’t exist, he knows that the original purpose for keeping the journal has been realized - to show his kin how he became the man he is. He will probably never go back through and read again the pages he’s written, but someday, someone will, and they will see that along with the hurt, Will’s life had been one that knew true joy, absolute love, and undying friendship

"Local metalsmith and gift shop owner, Dahlia McGuire, likes her quiet life in Hartwell, Delaware. It's the perfect place to hide from her family and the tragic events that led to their estrangement. However, when her father, the person she loves most in the world, needs her Dahlia has no choice but to return to Boston to face her ghosts. One of those happens to be her ex-boyfriend's best friend, Michael Sullivan. The man she was never supposed to fall in love with. Michael Sullivan has never forgotten Dahlia McGuire. Some might say he's never gotten over her. For years he lived with the anger of her desertion, and now, newly-divorced, he's finally ready to move on. That proves impossible when Dahlia returns to Boston and reawakens their explosive connection. Despite everything, Michael wants her back, but Dahlia can't seem to let go of the tangled emotions of the past. When she flees home to Hartwell, Michael follows, determined to do everything in his power to convince her they belong together. However, when the unthinkable hits the quiet seaside town, Michael finds himself trying to unravel more than the mystery of Dahlia's broken heart. It's time for truths left unsaid to finally be spoken or Michael and Dahlia might find themselves torn apart forever..."--Amazon.com.

Even as you read these words, there are women just like you stepping up and making a difference in their communities, making our world a better place to live. Three such exceptional women have been selected as recipients of Harlequin's More Than Words award. To celebrate their accomplishments, three bestselling authors have written short stories inspired by these real-life heroines. Debbie Macomber touches the heart in What Amanda Wants--a young woman's story of strength and courage in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Brenda Novak's Small Packages shows us how the love of a very special baby boy helps two people get past their pain and embrace a hopeful future...together. Meryl Sawyer explores the importance of creating balance in our lives, stopping to smell the roses and making time to chase our dreams in Worth the Risk.

Secrets go up in flames when a small-town firefighter's response to a city girl's call for help sparks a connection they were never supposed to uncover. Firefighter Ethan DeLuca would rather leave memories where they belong-buried under ashes. But when a scare puts Nonna's life on the line, he can't avoid returning to the town that had almost destroyed him. Helping to renovate the camp down the road seems like a good solution until his new redheaded boss ends up being one fire he has no idea how to put out. Cassidy McAdams is running out of time. If she can't turn enough profit from selling the camp Grandpa left her, Mom will have to foreclose on their flower shop. She's been burned enough times to know when to turn down help from a charming distraction. But with unexpected complications jeopardizing her chance of getting the camp ready to sell, Cass is forced to choose between guarding her heart and saving her mom's. When escalated attacks threaten to upend all their hard work and challenge Ethan's motives, his only option for protecting the girl he's fallen for means confronting the past that still haunts him. But as they're thrust into a fight to save the camp and their faith in each other, neither's prepared for the unforgiveable secret from their past waiting to burn their future to the ground. For fans of Alexa Verde and Kimberly Rae Jorden, let Write Me Home be the next inspirational romance you can't put down. Buy Write Me Home, Book One in the Home In You series, today and be swept into a heartwarming love story full of hope and healing.

Andrew Harper grew up in a house marked by tragedy. His older brother Owen did his best to shelter him, but you can only be protected from life’s pain for so long. Eventually, you end up just feeling numb…and isolated.Loneliness was the one constant in Andrew’s life. Until one girl, met by chance in a high school hallway, changed everything. Emma Burke was a mystery and all that was beautiful in this world, the only air Andrew ever wanted to breathe. She took the lonely away, and filled it with hope and color, and Andrew would do anything to keep her safe, happy and whole.But sometimes, what feels good and right is what ends up hurting us the most. And when Andrew and Emma are faced with an impossible decision, Andrew is tested to see just how far he’s willing to go for the girl who owns his heart.Cuts are deep.Scars are left behind.And revenge beckons.When Andrew finally gets his chance, in college, five years after his first love broke him completely, he finds out old feelings don’t really disappear just because you say you hate someone. The more he tries to avenge all that he believes he lost, the more he uncovers the real story of what happened years before.Love is wicked. But a restless heart is never satisfied beating on its own. Can Andrew and Emma make it right before it's too late, or will the ties that bind them now destroy their only chance at a future?

Book three in the USA Today bestselling Something in the Way series. Lake It was a hot summer day when I met him on the construction site next to my parents' house. If I'd known then what I do now, would I have kept on walking? Manning was older, darker, experienced-and I'd trusted him when he said the story would only ever be about us. I'd held those words close and challenged fate, but I had lost. A part of me is still that sixteen-year-old girl squinting up at Manning, but no matter how far I fall or high I soar, I'll always be a bird without her bear and nothing without him. Manning When I close my eyes, I can no longer see her. The decisions I made were to push Lake in the right direction-away from me. But now that she's gone, would I have made those same choices? I'd walked away like I was supposed to. I'd kept my distance. I'd bent over backward to keep Lake pure, but she's no longer that girl, and I don't know if I can stay away anymore. I only know I don't want to. She's still everything I want and nothing I should ever have, but if anyone can move the stars, it's her great bear in the sky.

Hollywood is a cutthroat town.Nobody knows that better than the Landis brothers.It's time for them to step out of their parents' shadow.IT'S TIME FOR THEM TO BECOME LEGENDS.Looks can be deceiving. From the outside, Wyatt Landis seemed to have it all. Born to Hollywood royalty, he had forged a path that had taken him to the top of the movie industry. Again and again, he produced movies that did the impossible. The critics loved them as much as the public.Wyatt had the looks, the success and the money to make him the envy of millions. What nobody knew-not even his family-was that he hid a secret so dark it was slowly eating away at him. If something didn't change soon, there would be nothing left but an empty shell. A vacation-one forced on him by his concerned family-might be the perfect place to try and find the man he used to be.Joie Trent had no idea what she would find the day she approached a wrecked truck on the side of the road. If she had known it would be a sexy stranger who would turn her comfortable life upside down, she would have called in the accident and left him to someone else.Wyatt had traveled the world, but nowhere had he found a town like Monroe, Nevada or a woman like Joie Trent. From the first glance, she stirs something in him he thought had died long ago.Hope.Amazingly, Wyatt feels himself begin to heal. New friends, and Joie's touch, slowly bring him back to life.However, secrets-his and hers-swirl around them. As Wyatt and Joie grow closer, his past threatens to break them apart.Danger, lies, and secrets aren't the best recipe for building a future. Wyatt's past is cloaked in darkness. Will Joie be the light he needs to help him forgive himself and move forward?Get this emotionally charged stand-alone novel today.

Book 3 in the bestselling 4-book Christian fiction series that has sold over 1.3 million copies!A story about God's unending faithfulness and the promise of tomorrow--in life, love, and the legacy of family, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction.A Desperate SituationPressures of the celebrity lifestyle weigh heavily on Dayne and Katy Matthews as they take on separate movie projects. Tabloid rumors talk of trouble and unfaithfulness between the two. And then a dramatic cover photo threatens to destroy everything they've worked to build together. Only Dayne knows the truth about the photo, truth that would help Katy believe him. But the truth will also cause devastating damage to the people he loves so dearly--the Baxter family. Dayne must weigh his decision carefully, but at what price?A Heartbreaking LossThe Flanigan family recognizes the deep loss of the Christian Kids Theater, and they begin to pray for a miracle--that even without the theater, somehow CKT will go on. Bailey and Connor see their CKT friends fitting in with the wrong crowd and making decisions that will harm them.A Season of HopeJohn Baxter takes the next step in his relationship with Elaine, giving him a season to contemplate selling the Baxter house--and losing a lifetime of memories. As the rest of the family considers the future, they must pull together like never before. Only their undying love for each other can help them overcome today's trials for a life they know is possible . . . someday.The Sunrise series is the third installment in the continuing Baxter Family Drama from America's number-one inspirational novelist, Karen Kingsbury. Revisit the Baxter family in all their life-changing events, or share the series with someone who hasn't discovered it yet.Winner of Christian Retailing's Retailer's Choice Award for Best Series!