"Dear Mr. Pessimist, here are a few reasons to love yourself and the world." When Sydney Hale gets a job at one of the biggest bakeries in her town, she expects a normal and calm atmosphere. Little does she know that she's in for the exact opposite when she meets the store owners son. Bennett Banks hates everything. And when Sydney starts working at the shop, she becomes his next target. Little did he know that she was going to be leaving him sticky notes with reasons to love himself and the world every day when she left the bakery. And when his parents go out of town, it's up to the two teens to try and get along so they can run the store and stop kids from breaking in again in the middle of the night. A class A pessimist. A quirky girl with a great outlook on life. What could possibly go wrong?

It's hard to hold on when all you want to do is let go. Quinn Cyrus has always loved sports. From the second her half brother bought her a soccer ball for her sixth birthday she has always found herself attracted to anything sports related. Max Duncun is Carter High's star soccer player. With his quick and graceful moves, no one would ever think that their star player could be in an accident that results in him living the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Bitter and angry, he believes his life is over. Until he meets Quinn when she accident kicks a ball into his backyard. Quin soon finds herself drawn to helping the hatred filled boy as best as she can. In an attempt to show him that sports isn't everything, she ends up realizing that maybe her whole life isn't exactly as she had once thought. That some secrets are better left untold. Two people from completely different worlds, with one thing in common, must find common ground as they struggle with their faith in the world and each other. Book 2 of the Kickstarting My Heart Series

Sixteen year old Ariel Thomas was happy living in her Quarterback older brother's shadow. That is until her brother and his best friend are in a car accident that kills her brother and leaves his best friend with brain damage. Andrew McLaughlin; Lake Field High's Linebacker and completely oblivious to the fact that his best friends little sister is head over heels in love with him. In the aftermath of the accident that took her brother's life, the two teens realize that the only way to move on. But how hard is that going to be for a former linebacker with brain damage and a sixteen year old girl that knows nothing about experiencing the world without a constant shadow over her?

"Her dying wish was for me to complete her list, and I wasn't going to stop until it was completed." When Alyssa Morrison loses her little sister to cancer, the last think she wants to think about is completing the ridiculous list she left behind. A list containing eighteen things she wants Alyssa to do before her twenty first birthday in a month. Alyssa soon finds herself following every item on the list, finding some easier then others and some. . . unexpected. But Alyssa soon uncovers the truth behind may have really caused her family to fall apart. . . and just how much her seemingly innocent little sister knew about it.