Versions of Me Series

Harper had spent the better part of her adult life keeping everyone at arm's length—fearing they would leave her like others before. Six months after starting therapy and finally admitting how she really felt about Caleb, she had hoped the sinking feeling would disappear. But while the reality of her future began to take hold, she found herself questioning just who exactly the real Harper Jones was. Or even more so, who the real Harper Jones could be.

After uprooting her life in a hasty exit, Harper has found herself clear across the country determined to give herself a fresh start. But new beginnings take more than a new location when the battle she's fighting is from within. As Harper concentrates on using Sarah's to do list to fix herself, she finds that her new life comes with reminders of her past, and how easy it is to fall back to the way she was. And while her fight to become the best version of herself is in full swing; she will have to decide just exactly what—or who—she's willing to give up to have it.

Caleb left life as he knew it behind when he was just eighteen years old. He moved to a new city and began again. A few years in, he felt the pull to his old life. That was until he met Harper Jones. Meeting Harper changed everything. But when things didn't go as planned between them; he did everything he could to stay in her life in whatever capacity she would allow. After fate gave them a second chance, Harper did the same thing Caleb once did and vanished from the life she had been living. Leaving him to pick up the pieces of his broken self. And as the emotional wreckage became too much, he found himself toying with the idea of diving into old habits, along with the memories of the life he thought he had left behind.

No one plans on being widowed at thirty-one years old. Leo Algar certainly didn't. Yet that is where he found himself on a Saturday afternoon in late September.   As the funeral ends and people around him return to their normal lives, Leo finds himself immersed in his grief, unsure of how to function in his old life without her.   And while the months tick by, Leo finds himself spending more time in the past than the present. A past that reminds him of what he had. A past that reinforces the reality of what it is he has lost.

Harper Jones has spent the majority of her life running from her feelings and the people closest to her.   After years of chasing the never-ending bottom of a bottle, she has finally found herself in a life she never thought she deserved, let alone would have.   But with one phone call, the life she has built begins to unravel, and she finds herself falling into old habits.    While her world continues to be ripped apart, she is forced to come face to face with everything she has spent her life avoiding. And although they say there is comfort in the devil that you know, Harper's avoidance of that devil is what brought her back, and it's anything but comfortable.  

Mitch Davis has devoted his life to two things—his family and the building and funding of rehabilitation centers. Now in his early sixties and the latter in the forefront, Mitch is set to open his twenty-fifth location. Not only is the number monumental but so is the location—his home state of Michigan. Yet, an even bigger deal than both, Mitch finds himself face to face with Alice's son, Caleb. Allowing Mitch the chance at closure he desperately needed yet had been resisting for years.

Harper's unhealthy coping mechanisms of meaningless sex and excessive drinking is starting to catch up to her—as is her avoidance of the past. At 28, she has found herself stuck in a cycle of perpetual anger, unrelenting loneliness, and constant self-loathing—something she isn't positive she can come back from. Her mirror reflects a girl that she no longer recognizes, and she has done everything she can to push away the ones she loves. But a sudden chain of events leads her to face the traumas she has been trying to keep buried with the vice that has kept her numb. And although the nagging voice in her head continues to poke at her insecurities and drag her down, Harper sees that there might be a light at the end of the tunnel—an end to the chaos in her life that she is desperate to reach.