“I loved this book and can easily recommend you add it to your #needtoread. I am smiling like a lunatic while writing this and remembering Heather and Josh’s journey. I laughed, cheered, cried, sighed, and almost swooned while reading For Better or Worse, and any book that can make me feel this wide spectrum of emotions is a book that qualifies as one of my favorite reads.”

—All About Romance

“A love story that is carefree, real, and packed with emotion any reader can relate with!!! TRULY FANTASTIC!!”

—Addicted To Romance

“I highly recommend For Better or Worse. The second in a series, it can be read as a stand-alone, but I say start with the first because it’s just as good. They’ve got the funny bickering that I love, and even as her stories have a light touch with cute flirty, they delve deep into the characters.”

—Harlequin Junkie (Top Pick)

To Have and to Hold

“Completely endearing characters.”

—Harlequin Junkie (Top Pick)

“Super entertaining, sweet, and sexy and it leaves you smiling bigtime at the end.”

—About That Story

“A character-driven and sizzling romance!”

—Fresh Fiction

From This Day Forward

“Layne packs as much into this sexually charged and emotionally intense novella as most authors do in a full novel.… The heat between [Leah and Jason] is enough to melt steel, and the emotional connection and psychological struggles will keep readers engaged.”

—Publishers Weekly

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Prologue

SATURDAY, JULY 21

Audrey Tate had dreamed about this moment dozens of times. Maybe hundreds.

Standing outside a church? Check.

A little breathless? Definitely.

A bit shaky? Yup.

Her heart pounding as she prepared to walk up the steps and down the aisle toward the man who’d determinedly swept her off her feet and stolen her heart? Absolutely.

But in her dreams, she’d been wearing white. In her dreams, the man she was walking toward hadn’t been someone else’s husband.

In her dreams, he hadn’t been dead.

Audrey felt someone give her arm a comforting squeeze as they passed, and another kissed her cheek. She forced an absent smile, even though she didn’t bother to look at the well-wishers. She was too busy trying to do what they were all doing: walking up those steps to say a final farewell to Brayden Hayes.

Audrey took a deep breath and ordered her right foot to move.