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  Sincerely, Yours

  Whitney G.

  Contents

  Sincerely, Yours

  Also By Whitney G.

  Preface

  Sincerely, Carter

  Prologue

  Fourth Grade

  Track 1. Blank Space (3:47)

  Track 2. Wildest Dreams. (3:54)

  Track 3. All Too Well (3:42)

  Fifth Grade

  Track 4. Sad Beautiful Tragic (4:13)

  Track 5. Sparks Fly (3:23)

  Track 6. Breathless (3:49)

  Track 7. Eyes Open (3:59)

  Ninth Grade

  Track 8. Both of Us (4:21)

  Track 9. Tell Me Why (3:13)

  Track 10. The Best Day (3:55)

  Track 11. I Knew You Were Trouble (1:55)

  Tenth Grade

  Track 12. The Moment I Knew (4:09)

  Track 13. The Last Time (4:56)

  Track 14. Speak Now (3:42)

  Track 15. Everything Has Changed (3:43)

  Eleventh Grade

  Track 16. Love Story (3:27)

  Track 17. Come in With the Rain (5:12)

  Track 18. Crazier (3:08)

  Track 19. I’m Only Me When I’m With You (2:22)

  Twelfth Grade

  Track 20. All You Had to Do Was Stay (4:49)

  Track 21. Should’ve Said No (2:44)

  Freshman Year

  Track 22. Two is Better than One (3:58)

  Three Weeks Gone

  Track 23. Treacherous (3:39)

  Track 24. Half of My Heart (4:15)

  Track 25. Come Back … Be Here (2:58)

  Track 26. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (3:53)

  Three Months Gone … And More

  Track 27. Begin Again. (5:03)

  Track 28. How You Get the Girl (4:32)

  Track 29. I Wish You Would (3:44)

  Track 30. Shake It Off (3:18)

  Track 31. You’re Not Sorry (3:22)

  Track 32. You Belong with Me (3:37)

  —

  Forget You, Ethan

  Prologue

  Back Then: 7½ Years Old

  Track 1. This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (4:00)

  Track 2. So It Goes … (4:23)

  Track 3. Should’ve Said No (2:41)

  Track 4. Bad Blood (3:22)

  Back Then: 9½ Years Old

  Track 5. Gorgeous (3:12)

  Track 6. Tell Me Why (5:01)

  Track 7. Getaway Car (4:16)

  Back Then: 15½ Years Old

  Track 8. … Ready for It? (3:11)

  Track 9. Don’t Blame Me (4:25)

  Back Then: 16 Years Old

  Track 10. Style (3:59)

  Track 11. Sparks Fly (2:42)

  Back Then: 16½ Years Old

  Track 12. Mine (1:57)

  Track 13. Dancing with Our Hands Tied (4:49)

  Track 14. Dress (2:14)

  Track 14A. Reputation (2:18)

  Track 15. Delicate (3:27)

  Back Then: 17 Years Old

  Track 16. King of My Heart (3:30)

  Track 17. End Game (3:37)

  Track 18. Don’t Blame Me (4:27)

  Back Then: 18 Years Old

  Back Then: 18 Years Old

  Track 19. Call It What You Want (3:22)

  Track 20. I Know Places (1:13)

  Track 21. I Did Something Bad (4:09)

  Track 22. Shake It Off (2:22)

  Track 23. Wildest Dreams (2:09)

  Track 24. Mean (3:47)

  Track 25. Look What You Made Me Do (0:20)

  Back Then: 18 Years Old

  Track 26. Welcome to New York (3:04)

  Track 27. All You Had To Do Was Stay (4:10)

  At Sea: First Week Gone

  At Sea: Three Weeks Gone

  At Sea: Six Weeks Gone

  Track 28. I Almost Do (3:11)

  Track 29. Breathe (2:39)

  Track 29A. Begin Again (1:39)

  Back Then: 18½ Years Old

  Track 30. This Love (3:53)

  Track 31. How You Get the Girl (2:46)

  —

  Sincerely, Arizona

  Track 33. Wonderland

  Track 34. You Are In Love

  Six Weeks Gone

  Track 35. New Romantics

  Track 36. Today Was a Fairytale

  —

  Forget You, Rachel

  Track 32. New Year’s Day

  Track 33. You Belong with Me

  Back then: 18 years old

  Track 33. Forget You, Rachel

  —

  Author’s Note

  On a Tuesday

  Two Weeks Notice

  Also By Whitney G.

  Sincerely, Yours

  A collection

  Whitney G.

  Sincerely, Carter

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2015 by Whitney Gracia Williams.

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission of the author.

  Cover design by Najla Qamber of Najla Qamber Designs.

  Editing by Evelyn Guy of Indie Edit Guy.

  Forget You, Ethan

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2018.

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission of the author.

  Cover design by Najla Qamber of Najla Qamber Design

  Sincerely, Arizona

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2015 by Whitney Gracia Williams.

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the author.

  Cover design by Najla Qamber of Najla Qamber Designs

  Editing by Indie Edit Guy

  Forget You, Rachel

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2020 by Whitney Gracia Williams.

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the author.

  Cover design by Najla Qamber of Najla Qamber Designs

  Also By Whitney G.

  THE FIRM

  Filthy Lawyer

  (April 2020)

  Sinful Witness

  Dirty Judge

  Empire of Lies Series

  King of Lies

  Queen of Lies

  Legacy of Lies

  Empire of Lies: Full Series


  Steamy Coffee Reads Collection (Volume 1)

  Naughty Boss

  Dirty Doctor

  Cocky Client

  Steamy Coffee Reads Collection (Volume 2)

  Selfish Suit

  Wolfish Player

  Devilish Stranger

  Reasonable Doubt Series

  Reasonable Doubt #1

  Reasonable Doubt #2

  Reasonable Doubt #3

  Falling for Mr. Statham Series

  Resisting the Boss

  Loving the Boss

  The One Week Series

  On a Tuesday

  On a Wednesday

  On a Thursday

  On a Friday

  On a Saturday

  On a Sunday

  On a Monday

  Sincerely, Carter

  Forget You, Ethan

  Turbulence

  Over Us, Over You

  Two Weeks’ Notice

  The Fine Print

  The Layover

  For Tamisha Draper

  You are literally the BEST BFF a girl could ever ask for. Thank you for the endless Starbucks meet-ups and conversations that led to the creation of this book!

  Preface

  Dear Awesome Reader,

  Thank you so much for inviting this compilation of Sincerely, Carter & Forget You, Ethan, to your bookshelf.

  Just so you know, these bestselling titles were previously published separately. If you've already read them and simply wanted to access the special bonus epilogues I wrote for these characters, you can find them via my website's bonus vault by tapping here. (Yes, they are also included in this book, just in case you want to have this complete set in your collection.)

  If you've never read these novels, I'm so happy you're taking a chance on them! You're about to meet best friends Carter & Arizona, along with frenemies, Rachel & Ethan.

  I hope you'll enjoy reading these stories as much as I enjoyed writing them!

  Sincerely,

  Whitney G.

  Sincerely, Carter

  A Novel

  Prologue

  Carter

  I can still remember, with the type of clarity that makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, the very beginning of bullshit. At least, in my own life.

  I was ten years old, and my parents—“The Jameses at 1100 Joyce Avenue,” were holding a fundraiser in our home. In the middle of the thousand-dollar-a-plate dinner, my father decided to give an unnecessary speech.

  There he was—six foot four, genuine American blue eyes, and genuinely greedy, talking about how he wanted to invest in healthier menus for the kids in school. He also wanted to help invest in better disciplinary ideals, since he knew of a certain child (it was me) who couldn’t stay out of trouble to save his life.

  Still, none of those ideals warranted the bullshit label—the next ones did: As he was toasting to all of his sponsors in the room, he lifted his glass and said, “I consider everyone here tonight to be a friend of mine. If you’re not a friend, it’s only because you’re family, and family is forever. The main reason I’m saying this right now is because my own late father taught me a very important lesson that has stuck with me all these years: Some people come into your life for a reason, some a season, and some a lifetime.”

  There was loud applause, lots of cheering and heartfelt “So true … So true …” responses tossed around the room at that moment. And then an older man stooped down to my level and said, “Your father is right, you know? Remember everything he just said.”

  “What did he just say?”

  “He said some people come into your life for a reason, some a season, and some a lifetime.” He smiled. “You should keep that in mind as much as you can in your life.” He winked at me and walked away.

  I didn’t know it then, but my father and his fickle follower had practically predicted my future.

  A few years after he gave that speech, he must’ve figured he’d obliged his “reason” in me and my mom’s life because he left us both. Several years after that, my mother decided her “season” of motherhood was done, and decided that she was tired of being a mom—that her real calling could be found in smoke bars and casinos. As far as for ‘a lifetime,’ I could only think of one person who ever came close.

  Fourth Grade

  Carter

  Dear Miss Carpenter,

  I am sorry that I was bad in class yesterday. I did not mean to cause a dissrupshun, and I am sorry that I broke your best pens, but I am not sorry that I HATE Arizona Turner.

  She is ugly and she talks way too much. I don’t know why you never send her to the office like you send me. She deserves to be punish too, and I hope she dies tomorrow so I won’t have to see her or her ugly metal mouth anymore.

  Sincerely,

  Carter

  I smiled and handed the letter to my mom, hoping that this time would be the charm—that she wouldn’t make me rewrite it all over again.

  I was beyond tired of Arizona getting me into trouble and laughing about it. She thought she was so smart because she knew the answers to all the questions in class, but I knew them, too. Especially because I knew where our teacher kept the answer key and I always stole it at lunchtime.

  My parents knew her parents personally because they always had to go to conferences about me “picking on her” and “making her cry,” but no one believed me when I told them that she was the one who started it.

  She always started it.

  “Carter …” My mom took a deep breath and shook her head. “This is a terrible letter. It’s worse than the last three you wrote.”

  “How? I didn’t call Arizona any names this time. I just said I wanted her to die.”

  “You don’t think you’re hurting her feelings whenever you call her ugly?”

  “She is ugly.”

  “She’s not ugly.” My father stepped into the room. “Now, those braces in her mouth might be, but as a whole? She’s pretty cute.”

  “Seriously?” My mom glared at him, and he laughed.

  “Sorry.” He walked over and patted me on the back. “It’s not nice to call someone ugly, son. No matter how much you hate her. You’ve got to stop letting this Arizona girl get to you. This is the fifth time this year you’ve gotten in trouble.”

  “Eighth time.” My mother corrected him. “He pushed her off the swings when she was in mid-air last week.”

  My father looked at me. “And what did you do this time?”

  I didn’t answer him. I looked down at the floor instead.

  “He stood up in the middle of a math test and said, I hate you, Arizona,” my mom said. “He then proceeded to grab the poor girl’s test paper, ball it up, and throw it across the room. He missed and knocked his teacher’s favorite glass pens to the floor.”

  Shaking his head, my dad sighed. “Just stop talking to this girl, okay? Don’t even look her way. You’re going to have to learn to ignore her, no matter what. Something tells me she won’t be a ‘lifetime’ person for you anyway. She’s just seasonal, so she’ll go away soon. Trust me.”

  “Glad to see you finally acting like an adult about this.” My mom ripped my letter in half and focused her attention on me. “Now, sit down and write a nice letter to your teacher, an even nicer one to Arizona, and tell her that you’re not going to be mean to her anymore. Try to think of something nice to say, too. Maybe mention something about those pretty dresses she always wears?”

  I groaned, but I picked up my pen and wrote.

  It took me five more letters to get it right, since she made me take out the words “stupid,” “hate,” and “die,” but I finally got it perfect around midnight. Then I promised myself that after I gave Arizona my letter tomorrow, I would never ever speak to her again.