A. Meredith Walters - Free Library Land Online - Poetry

Light in the Shadows

Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:58:11 +0200

How do you keep going when you feel like your life is over?
Maggie never thought she’d see Clay again. So, she attempts to put her life back together after her heart has been shattered to pieces. Moving on and moving forward, just as Clay wanted her to.
Clay never stopped thinking of Maggie. Even after ripping their lives apart and leaving her behind to get the help he so desperately needed. He is healing...slowly. But his heart still belongs to the girl who tried to save him.
When a sudden tragedy brings Maggie and Clay face to face again, nothing is the same. Yet some things never change. Can the darkness that threatened to consume them be transformed into something else and finally give them what they always wanted? And can two people who fought so hard to be together, finally find their happiness? Or will their demons and fear drive them apart for good?
The thing about love, is even when it destroys you, it has a way of mending what is broken. And in the shadows, you can still see the light.

Ashes of the Sun

Sat, 20 Oct 2018 16:03:32 +0300

I was raised to believe in things you can't see. It is the foundation of everything. I am taught to accept the unacceptable. To embrace the terrifying. To give everything to my family.
To my church.
To my god. Because I have a purpose. I have been trained for my calling for as long as I can remember. As an acolyte for the Gathering of the Sun, I am taught that my life isn't my own. I worship. I serve. And when the time comes, I will greet my fate with open arms and a sin free heart. People call us a cult. We are judged. We are ridiculed and reviled. Pastor Carter tells me they will be lost when the end comes. So we hide ourselves away from their sick and dangerous world. And my soul is safe because I follow the path. I am the perfect disciple. I am confident in my devotion. Until doubt arrives wearing the face of a boy I never expected to love. Bastian doesn't follow the path. His destiny is his own. He paints me a picture of a beautiful world. His words contradict everything I have been told. He invites me to live when I have been prepared to die.
He gives me something new to believe in. Love becomes the ultimate crisis of faith and now I am torn between two futures.
One that saves my soul.
And one that saves my heart.

The Beautiful Game (Man of the Match Book 1)

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 14:58:12 +0200

Lucas Bradley enjoys many things. The roar of the crowd. Scoring a goal. Being worshipped and adored by a growing legion of rabid, football obsessed fans. But gaining a reputation as English football's newest bad boy—not so much. Morgan Carter is a fish out of water. Having moved from America to the United Kingdom, she had hoped for a great adventure. Instead she's floundering in a job she doesn't like and a country she doesn't understand. And she finds herself more than ready to leave the land of hot accents behind. Until a drunken kiss at the local pub changes everything. Passions ignite. Tempers flare. And what starts as a temporary distraction turns into something deeper. Yet sleeping with a man on the cusp of full-blown fame comes with a price—one that Morgan isn't sure she's willing to pay. And Lucas, forced into the spotlight, finds his world turned upside down. Love is a game. But are Lucas and Morgan ready to play? And can they learn the rules before they run out of time?

The Contradiction of Solitude

Sun, 08 Nov 2015 14:58:12 +0200

You may notice me, but you will never know me.

I prefer it that way.

I am the daughter of a monster.

Born from blood and lies.

Dead before I have truly lived.

But Elian tells me that I'm different.

He tells me that I'm beautiful.

That I'm an enigma wrapped in irresistibly, complicated skin.

Elian says that he loves me.

These words terrify me.

I can't trust love.

Or hope.

Or truth.

Because I fear the best inside.

It threatens to drown Elian and his sweet, unconditional love.

It's a beast that will destroy everything.

Lead Me Not

Sat, 08 Nov 2014 14:58:13 +0200

In this dangerously sexy novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You in the Dark, a straight-laced college student meets a handsome but enigmatic stranger who lures her into an underground club scene, where she finds it difficult to resist temptation… Aubrey Duncan understands loss. She knows what rock bottom looks like, and she is determined to crawl back up to the top after the sudden death of her younger sister. She blames herself for her part in the tragedy, convinced that she could have done something, anything, to help her. In her effort to gain redemption, Aubrey starts fresh at Longwood University and facilitates an addiction support group, hoping she can support someone else in the way she failed her sister. But what she doesn’t count on is an all-consuming fascination with group member Maxx Demelo, a gorgeous, blond, blue-eyed enigma who hides dark secrets behind a carefully constructed mask. He only reveals what he wants others to see. But Aubrey glimpses another Maxx hidden below the surface—a Maxx who is drowning in his own personal hell. As Aubrey and Maxx develop an attraction too intense to ignore, he pulls her into the dark underbelly of the city club scene, where she is torn by her desire to save him and an inexplicable urge to join him in his downward spiral. Worst of all, she is beginning to love everything she should run away from—a man who threatens to ignite in her a fire that could burn her alive…

Follow Me Back

Sun, 08 Nov 2015 14:58:11 +0200

Exploited (Zero Day #1)

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 14:58:13 +0200

At first glance, I’m nothing out of the ordinary. I am a daughter. A sister. A friend. When you look at me you won’t see anything that warrants suspicion. I don’t look like a criminal.

My name is Hannah Whalen, but most people know me as freed0mov3rdr1v3, or “Freedom Overdrive”—one of the world’s most prolific and notorious hacktivists. My goal—my purpose—is to shed light on the evil that lurks behind the corporate and government lies we have been force-fed for too long.

My story begins with the best possible intention. Devoting my life to exposing the corrupt. The dishonest. The unethical. For that, they label me a cyber-terrorist. Wanted by the FBI, I’ve always been one step ahead.

Until I fell in love.

Because I’m sleeping with the man who’s hunting me. And he has no idea that I am his prey. Now I have to decide what’s more important: my freedom or my heart.

Bad Rep

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:58:11 +0200

Desperate Chances

Sun, 08 Nov 2015 14:58:11 +0200

Sex changes everything.

And love can turn into an enemy…

Mitch Abrams, the bassist for the popular rock band Generation Rejects, has been in love with Gracie Cook for years. But Gracie, a complicated girl with a lot of baggage, was too blind to see how she felt about the man who had always stood by her.

Until one night of passion brought them closer than they had ever been before.

Feeling off balance and out of control, Gracie does the only thing a girl with self-destructive tendencies can do: end things with Mitch before they can really begin.

So Mitch moves on. With his band, his friends, and a new girlfriend.

Yet he can’t seem to forget about the girl who threw his heart away.

Gracie, who is still struggling to build a life after crashing to the bottom, finds it hard to forget about her one night with Mitch. And even as she tries to convince herself it was only sex, her heart knows differently.

But life is full of chances and desperate moments. And when Mitch and Gracie are thrown back into each other’s lives, will they seize at the opportunity to do things right?

Or will the rock star and the less than ordinary girl crash and burn?

Butterfly Dreams

Sun, 08 Nov 2015 14:58:13 +0200

In a powerful romance for fans of The Fault in Our Stars and If I Stay, New York Times bestselling author A. Meredith Walters tells the story of a troubled young woman and the unforgettable guy who teaches her to live--and love--to the fullest.

She's waiting to die. . . . Corin Thompson is paralyzed by her obsession with mortality. Having lost both of her parents, she is terrified by the idea that she too will die young, and she loses control at any sign of illness. But when Corin connects with someone who has survived a very real brush with death, she begins to see the world in a whole new way.

He's learning to live. . . . As Corin struggles under the weight of her neuroses, Beckett Kingsley is attempting to rebuild a life that feels all too temporary. With the ever-present threat of heart failure never far from his mind, he just wants to make the most of whatever time he has left. And that means pursuing the girl he...

Reclaiming the Sand

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:58:11 +0200

Ellie McCallum was a bully. No connection to anyone or anything. A sad and lonely existence for a young woman who had come to expect nothing more for herself. Her only happiness coming from making others miserable.

Particularly Freaky Flynn.

Flynn Hendrick lived a life completely disconnected even as he struggled to become something more than that boy with Asperger's. He was taunted and teased, bearing the brunt of systematic and calculated cruelty, ultimately culminating in a catastrophic turn of events that brought Ellie and Flynn’s worlds crashing down.

But then Flynn and Ellie grew up.

And moved on.

Until years later when their paths unexpectedly cross again and the bully and the freak are face to face once more.

When labels come to define you, finding yourself feels impossible. Particularly for two people disconnected from the world who inexplicably find a connection in each other.

And out of the wreckage of their tragic beginnings, an unlikely love story unfolds.

But a painful past doesn’t always want to let go. And old wounds are never truly healed…and sometimes the further you try to run from yourself the closer you come to who you really are

Find You in the Dark

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:58:12 +0200

Ashes of the Sun (The Gathering of the Sun part 1)

Thu, 08 Nov 2018 14:58:11 +0200

Irresistible Fear

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:58:12 +0200

“His presence was electric. The tiny pulses of excitement made her shiver inside. But so did the fear. The feelings were almost indistinguishable…yet completely irresistible.”
Emily Hilbright's life is toxic. The negative threads curling around and strangling her. The nights of fear, the days of depression, the frantic struggle to stay sane. Her conscious world was consumed with the most basic need to survive. If her mother's abusive hand didn't break her, the nightmares would.
But what about him? The boy in her dreams that had turned her world upside down. Was he her savior or her tormentor? Did it even matter? Because she knew she loved him. Needed him. His presence a taunting tease that was as maddening as it was helpless...for the simple reason that he existed only in Emily's mind.
Or did he?
Good and evil play out in a distorted landscape where dreams and reality clash and sanity and madness are impossible to tell apart. What is Emily left with when her world crashes down around her and the new love she has discovered is ultimately her killer?
Irresistible Fear is the first book in The Redeeming Trilogy...the dark story of a girl, a boy, and a love that could destroy them both.