(rivals to lovers, small town, sports) [WATTYS 2024 GRAND PRIZE WINNER] (Season 3 coming soon) After a devastating Olympic loss puts her career in a downward spiral, an aging skier returns to her laid-back mountain hometown to rediscover her love of her sport and instead finds herself falling for a rival athlete. *** A year away from what might be her last chance to win Olympic gold, twenty-seven-year-old alpine skier Juniper James shocks everyone by announcing she won't race this year. Returning to her mountain hometown hoping to rediscover the spark that once drove her to World Cup glory, she instead crosses paths with the rival who shut her out of the podium at the last Olympics. For Summer Li, nothing is more important than skiing. At twenty years old, she has already won Olympic silver, but an accident has left her desperate to get back on her skis before the world learns the extent of her injury. She came to Crystal Peaks to lay low while she recovers. The last thing she needs is the woman she once idolized hanging around asking questions. Both struggling with career lows, Juniper and Summer have more in common than they think. Even as they push each other, sparks begin to fly, but Juniper blames Summer for her slump, and Summer isn't going to let a relationship distract from her recovery. And only one of them can win the gold medal. This inconvenient attraction seems on a course for disaster from the start. But these are women who face the impossible every day, and there's a magic in the mountains that can thaw even the coldest hearts. *** Cleat Cute meets Delilah Green Doesn't Care. *** Season One complete at 90k words. Season Two complete at 90k words. Season Three coming soon!

Newly edited/amended chapters are all up! When Katie agrees to accompany her best friend Mel to a Harry Styles concert, she has no idea how much her life is about to change. Fighting her own insecurities and health issues, Katie must try and navigate the strange new world she finds herself thrown in to as people and events from her past rear their ugly heads. This is my first attempt at writting a fan fic, or anything for that matter and I'd appreciate any comments you have. Thanks. #Treatpeoplewithkindness

Only the best Harry Styles fanfiction stories! Well written, brilliantly developed by articulate opinionated writers that I was so lucky to read. Read my list of stories which is not ranked in any particular order. All stories are equally interesting and captivating..."Trust me, I'm telling you stories" (Janette Winterson)

"Life is about deep kisses, strange adventures, midnight swims, and rambling conversations." -Unknown Running away wasn't the hard part of it. In fact, that took very little thought at all. Trying to figure out why it felt so right was what made it complicated. How a boy on a bus changes everything.

Sometimes we think our lives are perfect. We have the perfect job. Perfect friends. Perfect boyfriend. And then our point of view is changed and suddenly the perfect things aren't so perfect anymore.

a story about a single mother who finds refuge in a womanizing millionaire after becoming homeless

He never knew life could be this way, but truly if he did, he wouldn't have cared. He cared about nothing, not even himself until her. Before her, he was empty/ Before her he knew nothing of joy or completion, and this is his journey to his life After her.

A four lettered hell for him, but a four lettered heaven for her. All she wanted was to love, and to be loved. But he wasn't willing to try. - h.s. short story - ©MandyVera

Avery Martin is a smart 18-year-old with a boyfriend of one year, two rich parents, and goes to an Ivy League school. As disaster strikes between her and her boyfriend, Avery finds herself visiting a 24-hour diner late at night to forget about him. She meets an employee named Harry Styles and befriends him.

After six long years of constant touring and working as one of the world's biggest pop stars, trying his hand at acting and about to embark on a new solo career, Harry finds himself needing a time out. All eyes have been on him since he was sixteen years old and it's become hard to figure out who he's become, who he really is versus who everyone perceives him to be. Taking the time to be alone in a small town surrounded by nature and his own thoughts, he wants to feel the freedom and normalcy he so desperately craves. He shifts from a global superstar living the life of a celebrity to a simple small town life full of a different kind of adventure. Having experienced two completely opposite sides of life, he struggles to find a balance between the two and make some tough decisions about who he is and what he truly wants. Will he be able to go back once he figures out what really matters to him? Or can he find a balance between both? Follow the summer adventures of Harry and Hailey as he tries to go back to basics, discovering that maybe solitude wasn't what he needed. *Absolutely no reposting or translating of this story. NO EXCEPTIONS.*