B. Celeste - Böcker

Two broken pasts. One last chance. An unforgettable story of star-crossed lovers, found family, and the fight to live fully…no matter the cost.Sawyer Hawkins and Paxton Banks were inseparable as children, their secret bridge in Louisiana a sanctuary from the world—until Hurricane Katrina swept them apart. Thirteen years and a lifetime of battles later, fate brings them back together when Sawyer returns for college.Sawyer, unbroken and unapologetically alive after a relentless battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, is determined to seize every moment she's been denied. The bucket list she writes is her lifeline: each item a rebellion against the years stolen by illness, each day a chance to taste freedom, friendship, and love.Banks, now a reserved architecture student, carries the weight of his father’s abuse and his best friend's addiction, feeling unable to save those he loves. But when he discovers his long-lost friend Sawyer is his new neighbor, her courage and warmth begin to melt through his walls.Their reunion is electric, with witty banter, shared secrets, and a spark that refuses to be extinguished. But as their friendship deepens into a complicated, aching romance, old wounds and new tragedies threaten to tear them apart, and Sawyer’s still-declining health becomes impossible to hide.Both must confront the truth: sometimes loving someone means letting them go.Filled with longing, laughter, and heartbreak, this is a story about living fiercely in the shadow of loss, about the courage to love even when time is running out, and about the bridges we build—between hearts, across years, and beyond grief.Perfect for fans of If He Had Been with Me, Five Feet Apart, and All the Bright Places, as well as readers looking for:New adult contemporary romanceStar-crossed loversTragic romanceSecond chance romanceChildhood friends to loversFound familyStories that will break your heart—and heal itPraise for Past the Broken Bridges:"Heartbreaking, beautiful, raw, inspirational, pure, deeply moving, powerful, and so personal. The snot bubbles were bubbling and the tears were just flowing endlessly. B. Celeste, where should I send my therapy bill?""Highly recommend for all my heart-crushing, sob-inducing, tear-jerker-loving besties!""It was heartbreaking yet perfect, and I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.""A love story worth reading and a heartache worth crying over. This will be living rent free in my head for the foreseeable future.""This book wrecked my entire being. This is 6 stars and one of my top reads of the year.""B. Celeste wrote this from her soul and hit me square in the soul with it too."

Time is a luxury we don't all have...Emery Matterson's life has been broken for a while. First, she lost her twin sister to an incurable autoimmune disease, then her father left, then her mother fell apart when Emery herself was diagnosed with the same disease that killed her sister. The only option for Emery seems to be to move in with the father she hasn't seen in ten years, and start over.Enter Kaiden Monroe, the brooding athlete who has baggage of his own. Kaiden makes Emery feel normal. Hated. Cared for. Loathed. And...loved. Somewhere along the way, Emery finds solace in the guy with the sad eyes.But everything happens in stages. And nothing good ever lasts.From fan-favorite author B. Celeste comes an raw, real, and unforgettable story of love and loss between two young people grappling with the harsh reality of invisible disease.

From the fan-favorite author of Underneath the Sycamore Tree comes the first in a raw, real romance series following the lives of the Lindon U football players and the complicated girls who change their lives forever.When Ivy asked her best friend to run away with her at sixteen, she knew he'd say no. He had football, an amazing family, and a happy home to go back to every day. So the night Ivy snuck out of his bedroom window after hugging him goodbye, she accepted she'd probably never see him again.Then they both wound up at Lindon University four years later.Ivy is barely picking up the pieces of her life when the boy whose initials she used to doodle hearts around approaches her at work. Aiden Griffith. Lindon U's star tight end. Still as attractive. Still as dedicated. With rumors of him being drafted to the NFL coming to fruition, Ivy knows it's only a matter of time before they have to say goodbye again.But he can't seem to let her go, no matter what she says, and she doesn't think she wants him to.

From the fan-favorite author of Underneath the Sycamore Tree comes the next installment in a raw, real romance series following the lives of the Lindon U football players and the complicated girls who change their lives forever.When Skylar Allen decided to move across the country for college, she thought it'd be the perfect chance to reinvent herself. But then one party changed the course of her entire freshman year.Just when she thinks she's about to drown in the foggy memories of her night spent partying at the football house, Daniel Bridges walks into her life. Lindon University's wide receiver. A total flirt. And a total threat.Because he can help her take away the memories she does remember from that night.What Skylar doesn't anticipate is the friendship she forms with the witty football player as months go on. And how easy it is to fall for him as he teaches her how to trust again...and so much more.

From the fan-favorite author of Underneath the Sycamore Tree comes the next installment in a raw, real romance series following the lives of the Lindon U football players and the complicated girls who change their lives forever.After Raine Michelson turns down her long-time boyfriend Caleb Anders's marriage proposal, the two are barely co-existing as they enter graduate school at Lindon University. However, that quickly turns upside down following an emotional hookup after devastating news, leading to an unexpected pregnancy.Now the high school sweethearts turned college exes must heal from the damage caused by their broken relationship, while also preparing to become parents. Despite the unanswered questions Caleb has about why Raine broke up with him, he suggests moving in as co-parenting friends and working together at his father's hardware store. When their close proximity feeds into old feelings, the pair must figure out if their love for each other ever ended, and must learn how to face their uncertain future on their own terms, without outside influences-like grief, loss, and fear-getting in the way.