The Swan Creek Series by Katie Marie Roberts

Three years after the death of her father, eighteen-year-old Elle finds herself moving across the country to New York City to live with her mom’s new fiancé, away from all the memories of her dad. One night when she goes out to meet a friend (if you can even call him that), disaster strikes, and she wakes up in a completely foreign place with the constant threat of the depraved madman that oversees it all.She quickly discovers she isn't alone... moreThree years after the death of her father, eighteen-year-old Elle finds herself moving across the country to New York City to live with her mom’s new fiancé, away from all the memories of her dad. One night when she goes out to meet a friend (if you can even call him that), disaster strikes, and she wakes up in a completely foreign place with the constant threat of the depraved madman that oversees it all.She quickly discovers she isn't alone. She befriends her fellow captees, Bonnie, Lewis, and Jaden, who have all gone through trifles and troubles akin to what she has.But after suffering a devastating loss and their plan to escape goes awry, Elle, with the help of her new friend Jaden, must decide how they’re going to get themselves home in one piece, but with their psychotic captor wreaking havoc to anything that crosses his path, Elle quickly learns that promises are much harder to keep than they are to make. less

Nineteen-year-old Colton Davidson doesn’t have the most perfect life, but he’s definitely not one to complain. He has everything he his mom and stepdad alive and safe, a job working with a family he adores, and two best friends he cannot live without.The only thing that stops him from having completely everything is something that happened in his past…the memory of the incident that happened twelve years ago haunts him, the one that almost took his mom and friends, Elle and Jaden, away from him... moreNineteen-year-old Colton Davidson doesn’t have the most perfect life, but he’s definitely not one to complain. He has everything he his mom and stepdad alive and safe, a job working with a family he adores, and two best friends he cannot live without.The only thing that stops him from having completely everything is something that happened in his past…the memory of the incident that happened twelve years ago haunts him, the one that almost took his mom and friends, Elle and Jaden, away from him.Enter the charming Ezra Baker, a new boy who moves to Swan Creek with his mom and younger brother. The more that Colton gets to know Ezra, the more he believes he can move forward and forget the ghosts of his past. But as he gets to know more about his new neighbor, startling truths about Ezra’s past start coming to light, and Colton starts putting together some disturbing pieces of a puzzle he wants nothing to do with…or thinks he does.But as dangerous secrets are uncovered, Colton starts to question what’s true and what he’s wanted to hear. When he comes face to face with disaster and isn’t totally sure who he can lean on, something starts to plague his everyone deserves a second chance…right?In this thrilling and heartwarming sequel to Positively Radiant, will the small town of Swan Creek have another casualty or two on their hands? less