Melissa Toppen has 7 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators. The most-rated is Follow Me Down.
Almost Never
Summary
Alec Murray. He was the one. From the first moment I saw him, I knew. I had never been more certain of anything in my 16 years on this Earth. But Alec didn’t notice me. At least not in the way that I wanted him to. He noticed my best friend instead. I stood by and watched their relationship blossom. An outsider looking in, wishing things were different. Torn between my loyalty to my best friend and the boy who had unknowingly stolen my heart. Weighted by feelings I could never express out loud, I wrote them all down. Every thought. Every feeling. I poured them all into a letter. A letter he was never meant to read. Only that’s exactly what he did. He read it. Every single word. But by then it was too late. Even if he was no longer dating my best friend. Even if I was more in love with him than ever. He was leaving. I was leaving. And there was nothing either of us could do to change it. Alec Murray was my almost fairytale. The happy ending I swore I’d never get. But our story is far from over.... Almost Never is a friends to lovers, complete stand-alone.
©2020 Melissa Toppen (P)2020 Melissa Toppen
A Thousand Cuts
Summary
I used to believe in fairy tales. But then I grew up and I realized that life isn’t like the books I once loved so much. There are no princes riding in on their white horses. No magic wands or fairy god mothers. And no happily ever afters. Ryland Thorpe taught me the hard way that good doesn’t always win and sometimes the people we trust the most are the ones that can hurt us the deepest. At 15, my world began and ended with him. He was my older brother’s best friend. He was my protector. He was the boy I had loved since I was old enough to understand what loving someone meant. And he was a liar.... It’s been five years since I’ve seen him. Five long years and the memory of him still haunts me like it was yesterday. Only he’s not just a memory anymore. Prison has hardened him, changed him, altered him in ways I never expected. But beneath it, all I can still see a glimmer of the boy I used to love. When lies are exposed and secrets are revealed, I find myself questioning everything I thought I knew. They say the first cut is the deepest. They were wrong....
©2020 Melissa Toppen (P)2020 Melissa Toppen
Love Me Like You Won't Let Go
Summary
You never get over your first love. It’s something I’ve heard countless times. Like someone has to point out that your pain will never go away. That your shattered heart will never mend. Because that’s exactly what my heart did the day I watched Asher Evans board that train - it shattered, splintering into a million tiny fragments that I didn’t think I’d ever be able to piece back together. He was the boy I had loved since I understood what loving someone meant. The one who knew me inside and out. The one who swore he’d never let me go. It’s been six years since that day and even now the memory haunts me like it was yesterday. I’ve done my best to move on, to rebuild, and for the most part I’ve done pretty well. But all of that comes crashing down when Asher strolls back into town like he never left. I don’t want to want him. I certainly don’t want to need him. But that doesn’t stop me from doing it anyway. Only things are different now. I’m different. I’m not the girl he left behind all those years ago. I may have been foolish enough to give him my heart once but I won’t make that mistake a second time. Or at least that’s what I tell myself until I’m standing face to face with the one man who has the power to break me all over again.
©2019 Melissa Toppen (P)2020 Melissa Toppen
Poison & Wine
Summary
It’s funny how differently we view life when we’re young. Everything feels possible- limitless. If only things could stay that way forever. Then maybe life wouldn’t be so complicated. Maybe Jace would still be the same ten-year-old boy I fell in love with. Maybe I’d still be that same girl too. The girl who believed that there wasn’t anything we couldn’t overcome. But I’m not that girl anymore. Time has beaten me down, broken me, taken everything from me. And it’s taken even more from Jace. I naively believed that I could save him...From his dad. From his anger. From his addiction. And I nearly died trying. It’s taken me four years to rebuild my life. To piece my shattered heart back together. But it all goes up in flames the moment I find myself face to face with the one person I never thought I’d see again. He’s determined to prove he’s changed. I’m terrified to let him try. Because no matter how sweet it tastes, with Jace Matthews you never truly know if what you’re drinking is poison or wine, until it’s already too late. Poison & Wine is a complete stand-alone, second chance romance.
©2020 Melissa Toppen (P)2021 Melissa Toppen
Violets Are Not Blue
Summary
Roses are red. Violets are blue. Forget everything good you’ve been told about love, Because, none of it’s true. You don’t agree? Spend a day in my shoes and you’d curse love, too. My name’s Blue. Yes, you read that right. Blue Daniels. And I hate love. I despise every single thing about it. In my 32 years on this Earth, it has brought me nothing but heartbreak and disappointment. Love is a void. Something we’re taught we need if we want to live a happy and fulfilled life. Well, I disagree. Some say I’m a cynic. Others call me the smartest woman they’ve ever met. But no matter what anyone says, I know what I need. And love is not it. Enter Harris Avery. A man who thinks he can have anyone he wants, including me. A man who reminds me daily why I swore off love in the first place. He walks around the office like he owns the place, throwing that sexy smirk of his at every female he passes. He thinks no one is immune to his charm. But poor Mr. Avery has never met a girl like me before. I’m more likely to throw myself off a bridge than at his feet. There’s just one problem. He’s decided to make it his mission to prove me wrong. To that, I say, "Let the games begin..."
©2019 Melissa Toppen (P)2020 Melissa Toppen
All That We Are
Summary
They say everything happens for a reason - that there’s always a light at the end of the tunnel. For the longest time, I didn’t think that was true. I had stumbled around in the dark for so many years that I didn’t think I would ever find my way out. But when I finally did, it came in the most unexpected way. Miles Hollins had been my brother’s best friend for as long as I could remember. We didn’t like each other much growing up. Or rather, we couldn’t stand each other. But after 10 years of being gone, a lot had changed. He wasn’t the same boy I remembered. I wasn’t the same girl, either. So much had happened. I moved away and got married. Miles joined the military. We both returned home broken in our own way. I struggled to find my place in my new life. Miles struggled just to get through the day. But together, we slowly began to heal. I quieted his demons, and he gave me a sense of belonging. For a while, that was enough. But this is real life, and in real life, nothing stays perfect forever. In real life, not every story ends with a happily ever after. Sometimes, the scars we carry are just too deep. I promised him I would fight. He promised me I would lose. I’ll do everything in my power to prove him wrong. Because, it’s when you find the one thing you can’t live without that you truly find yourself. All That We Are is a stand-alone contemporary romance.
©2019 Melissa Toppen (P)2020 Melissa Toppen
Follow Me Down
Summary
For years, I’ve been planning my escape. Preparing for the day when I could leave home and never look back. But when the moment came, it didn’t happen like I had planned. I didn’t pack up my car and drive away, watching my old life disappear in the rearview mirror like I had always envisioned I would. Instead, I ran — quite literally — as fast and far as my feet would take me. I didn’t know where I was going, only that I had to get away. And that’s when he found me.... Titus Driscoll. He was unlike anyone I had ever met before. A man who lived by his own code. Who answered to no one but himself. He didn’t care where I came from or why I was running. He didn’t care that my father was a powerful politician that would stop at nothing to bring me home. Once he had me, I was his. Follow Me Down is a complete standalone Contemporary Romance.
©2020 Melissa Toppen (P)2020 Melissa Toppen