Love by Numbers Series by E.S. Carter

This is the Love by Numbers Duet - The only two books in the series that need to be read in order. Nineteen: Your life can change in the blink of an eye. How you adapt to these changes is what defines you. Jake Fox is an aspiring actor who has found little success. He is also a typical, cliche, bad boy, who 'loves them and leaves them' without love ever coming into the equation... moreThis is the Love by Numbers Duet - The only two books in the series that need to be read in order. Nineteen: Your life can change in the blink of an eye. How you adapt to these changes is what defines you. Jake Fox is an aspiring actor who has found little success. He is also a typical, cliche, bad boy, who 'loves them and leaves them' without love ever coming into the equation. Emma Campbell is finding her way in life, struggling with memories from her past, an apathetic mother and the choices ahead of her. Can she keep focused on the light when life keeps surrounding her in darkness? Polar opposites, will love be the thread that binds them or will circumstances beyond their control, tear them apart? Twenty One: Fate kept placing Emma Campbell and Jake Fox in each others paths. Fate also kept putting overwhelming obstacles in their way. What fate didn’t realize is that Jake and Emma share a connection that is stronger than circumstance. An intense bond that threatens everything they thought they knew about themselves, one that is only made stronger by a perfect day. A perfect day where they both surrendered to the force of their feelings for one another. A perfect day that ended in darkness and tragedy. Jake is missing. Emma is lost. Lost in grief; lost in hopelessness. Will fate finally grant them a chance to be together or will it tear them apart? less

Your life can change in the blink of an eye. How you adapt to these changes is what defines you. Jake Fox is an aspiring actor who has found little success. He is also a typical, cliche, bad boy, who 'loves them and leaves them' without love ever coming into the equation. Emma Campbell is finding her way in life, struggling with memories from her past, an apathetic mother and the choices ahead of her... moreYour life can change in the blink of an eye. How you adapt to these changes is what defines you. Jake Fox is an aspiring actor who has found little success. He is also a typical, cliche, bad boy, who 'loves them and leaves them' without love ever coming into the equation. Emma Campbell is finding her way in life, struggling with memories from her past, an apathetic mother and the choices ahead of her. Can she keep focused on the light when life keeps surrounding her in darkness? Polar opposites, will love be the thread that binds them or will circumstances beyond their control, tear them apart? *Suitable for readers Age 18+ due to some disturbing scenes and sexual content* less

Fate kept placing Emma Campbell and Jake Fox in each others paths. Fate also kept putting overwhelming obstacles in their way. What fate didn’t realize is that Jake and Emma share a connection that is stronger than circumstance. An intense bond that threatens everything they thought they knew about themselves, one that is only made stronger by a perfect day. A perfect day where they both surrendered to the force of their feelings for one another... moreFate kept placing Emma Campbell and Jake Fox in each others paths. Fate also kept putting overwhelming obstacles in their way. What fate didn’t realize is that Jake and Emma share a connection that is stronger than circumstance. An intense bond that threatens everything they thought they knew about themselves, one that is only made stronger by a perfect day. A perfect day where they both surrendered to the force of their feelings for one another. A perfect day that ended in darkness and tragedy. Jake is missing. Emma is lost. Lost in grief; lost in hopelessness. Will fate finally grant them a chance to be together or will it tear them apart? This is the second part in the “Love by Numbers” series and is a continuation of the story that began in “Nineteen”. It is not to be read as a standalone. *Suitable for readers 18+ due to scenes of a sexual nature* less

I am a son. I am a brother. I am an artist. I am a student. I am her student. She was my first. First infatuation, first ‘real’ kiss, first love, first..... heartbreak. I gave her everything, including my body and would have given her more. I gave her ‘I love you’ ….she told me her heart was filled by another, there was no room left for me. We could never be. What we did was wrong. It didn’t feel wrong to me. The deepest hurt is a love that you cannot have... moreI am a son. I am a brother. I am an artist. I am a student. I am her student. She was my first. First infatuation, first ‘real’ kiss, first love, first..... heartbreak. I gave her everything, including my body and would have given her more. I gave her ‘I love you’ ….she told me her heart was filled by another, there was no room left for me. We could never be. What we did was wrong. It didn’t feel wrong to me. The deepest hurt is a love that you cannot have. It will last the longest, cut the deepest and feel the strongest. It is an imperfect love; a disfigured circle that never ends. You cannot control it; it's as simple as blinking and just like blinking the more you try to stop it, the more the pain consumes you. This is book 3 in the 'Love by Numbers' series. Although it contains characters from the previous books, it can be read as a standalone. less

Thirteen... Unlucky for some. Including me. The woman I loved left me on the thirteenth. Thirteen months of living together and she walked out the door without looking back, straight into another man's arms. She was kind enough to leave something to remind me of her: thirteen thousand pounds worth of debt. Thirteen; the day I lost my nuts. Well, I didn't lose them, cancer took them from me. Better to be a man without balls than one without life. Still, thirteen sucked.. moreThirteen... Unlucky for some. Including me. The woman I loved left me on the thirteenth. Thirteen months of living together and she walked out the door without looking back, straight into another man's arms. She was kind enough to leave something to remind me of her: thirteen thousand pounds worth of debt. Thirteen; the day I lost my nuts. Well, I didn't lose them, cancer took them from me. Better to be a man without balls than one without life. Still, thirteen sucked... until it didn't. Until her. Thirteen might just be my new lucky number. *Thirteen is book #4 in the 'Love by Numbers' series. It is interconnected but can be read as a standalone.* less

One click. One perfect frame. That's all it takes to capture an eternal moment; although most people let them pass by without acknowledgement. I don't waste any. Not a single one. If I see something of beauty, I want to experience it, feel it and immortalise it. If I see someone of beauty, I want to taste them, worship them and memorise them. I don't have a type, if I like you, I like you. I don't have a preference. My bisexuality is a gift, not a defect... moreOne click. One perfect frame. That's all it takes to capture an eternal moment; although most people let them pass by without acknowledgement. I don't waste any. Not a single one. If I see something of beauty, I want to experience it, feel it and immortalise it. If I see someone of beauty, I want to taste them, worship them and memorise them. I don't have a type, if I like you, I like you. I don't have a preference. My bisexuality is a gift, not a defect. It's the freedom to see beyond gender. One blink. One touch. One night. Life is filled with so many ones. One chance to get things right. One life to live as you choose. One decision that gives you acceptance. One person to fill the emptiness. Just one? Nah, like I said, life is full of ones. My camera lets me focus on the good times; I develop from life's negatives, and if things don't work out, I just take another shot. Who needs just one? Book #5 in the 'Love by Numbers' series. Can be read as a standalone. less

I'm sorry for your loss. Why do people say that? When someone you love is taken from you, when a part of you dies along with them, you haven't lost them like you would your car keys or mobile phone. They aren't stuck down the side of the sofa or left in the ignition of your car for you to find later. You haven't absentmindedly put them somewhere and forgotten. You will never lose them because they live in you... moreI'm sorry for your loss. Why do people say that? When someone you love is taken from you, when a part of you dies along with them, you haven't lost them like you would your car keys or mobile phone. They aren't stuck down the side of the sofa or left in the ignition of your car for you to find later. You haven't absentmindedly put them somewhere and forgotten. You will never lose them because they live in you. The soul crushing hurt that burns your lungs with every breath you take comes from knowing where they are and not being with them. The ugly and real definition of grief is being left behind. I'm sorry they left you. I'm sorry you are alone. I'm sorry it hurts to breathe. Loss; it doesn't even compare. She was my first love. She is my last love. I am an empty husk who pretends to be filled with enough love for those of us she left behind. Our little girl and newborn son need me. I am both mother and father now. I am hollow and empty. I am a shell. So why does the girl with the face of an angel and eyes that mirror my emptiness, look at me like I'm her everything? *Book #6 in the 'Love by Numbers' series. Can be read as a standalone.* less

One becomes two. Two become one. Should love be easy? Because, after all, love is love. I once thought I didn’t have a type. Man or woman, I didn’t have a preference. If I liked you, I liked you. I was wrong. I have a preference—a strong one. His name is Flynn. Flynn Phillips. Life is no longer full of ones but full of firsts. Can I make Flynn my last? Can one become two... forever? Book #7 in the 'Love by Numbers' series... moreOne becomes two. Two become one. Should love be easy? Because, after all, love is love. I once thought I didn’t have a type. Man or woman, I didn’t have a preference. If I liked you, I liked you. I was wrong. I have a preference—a strong one. His name is Flynn. Flynn Phillips. Life is no longer full of ones but full of firsts. Can I make Flynn my last? Can one become two... forever? Book #7 in the 'Love by Numbers' series. The continuation of Iz & Flynn's story from One (Book #5 in the series). Not a standalone. less