Sadie Williams had everything mapped out. A cheerleading scholarship. Near-perfect grades. A future she could almost touch. Then one night changed everything. After a devastating car crash leaves her a wheelchair user and learning to live with chronic incomplete spinal damage, Sadie returns to college carrying more than physical scars. She is no longer confident in the way she once was. Now she is a target. Protected fiercely by her older brother Mason, a star football player, Sadie tries to survive campus life quietly alongside her two best friends, Amira and Elle. But the cheer squad makes sure she never forgets what she has lost. Led by Sofia Lopez, the ruthless head cheerleader and girlfriend of the college's golden quarterback, the bullying is relentless, cruel, and calculated. Until one prank goes too far. Wyatt is everything Sadie believes she can never have. Popular. Wanted. Untouchable. And very much taken. But one moment changes everything. As lines blur between pity and protection, friendship and longing, Sadie and Wyatt find themselves drawn together in ways neither expected. What begins as quiet conversations and stolen glances becomes something deeper, riskier, and impossible to ignore. Because loving Sadie means standing against the crowd. And loving Wyatt means daring to believe she is still worthy of being chosen. #2 on Wheelchair - 06/07/26

Eli Hayes has spent his whole life being compared to someone else. The son of football legend Beckett Hayes and media powerhouse Sienna Hart Hayes, everyone already thinks they know who he's supposed to be. Quarterback. Leader. Future star. Simple. The problem? Eli isn't so sure anymore. When a major development project threatens the lake that has been the heart of his family's summers for over a decade, Eli finds himself fighting for something he never expected to care about this much. And somewhere between environmental reports, disappearing shorelines, and a girl who challenges every assumption he has about himself, Eli starts asking a question he's spent his whole life avoiding: What if the future everyone planned for him isn't the future he wants? Because saving Legacy Island might end up changing more than the shoreline. It might change him too.

Legacy Island Series Nicholas Bennett was born into greatness. As the son of football legend Luca Bennett and Olympic hockey icon Ivy Moreau Bennett, Nicholas has spent his entire life surrounded by championships, cameras, expectations, and people waiting to see which legacy he'll choose to carry. He's cocky enough to pretend none of it bothers him. Talented enough to make everyone believe him. But underneath the smirk, Nicholas has no idea who he is when nobody is watching. Winter break was supposed to be simple: help his mom at one of her Olympic training camps, run drills for the younger hockey kids, charm everyone, and stay out of trouble. Then he sees her on the ice after practice. At first, Nicholas thinks she's a figure skater. Graceful. Focused. Quietly impossible to look away from. Then he finds out the truth. She's a hockey player. A good one. But hockey isn't what she wants anymore. She wants figure skating - the one dream everyone around her refuses to take seriously. Nicholas should stay out of it. He has enough pressure of his own, enough expectations, enough people waiting for him to become the next Bennett legend. But she doesn't care about his last name. She doesn't fall for his charm. And she definitely doesn't let him get away with being cocky. Somewhere between late-night rink sessions, stolen glances through the glass, and winter mornings cold enough to make honesty feel dangerous, Nicholas starts helping her chase the dream everyone else told her to forget. And in trying to help her find the courage to choose herself... He might finally learn how to do the same. Because carrying a legacy is hard. But breaking away from one? That takes everything.

Five years ago, they walked across the graduation stage believing the hardest part of their story was over. They were wrong. Life after Northlake looks very different than any of them imagined. Luca Bennett is living his dream as a linebacker for the Miami Dolphins while his wife, Ivy Moreau, chases Olympic gold with Team USA. Thousands of miles apart, they're learning that marriage is a lot harder when there are no rivals to fight and no campus forcing them together. The prank war never stopped-but neither did the love. Beckett Hayes and Sienna Hart finally have the stable life they spent years fighting for. With Beckett leading the Dolphins offense and Sienna building a career in professional sports media, they're closer than ever. The only problem? Beckett has been carrying a secret in his pocket for months. Maddox Vale is still making headlines in the NFL. Unfortunately for his friends, he's about to make the biggest announcement of his life-and absolutely nobody sees it coming. And while Roman Calloway dominates on Sundays, Cassie Blake is changing lives through the nonprofit they built from a college fundraiser. Together, they're planning the wedding everyone has been waiting for... if their friends don't accidentally destroy it first. From Olympic arenas and NFL stadiums to surprise babies, wedding vows, lifelong friendships, and dreams finally coming true, Legacy is a heartfelt return to the world of Northlake University. Because some rivalries fade. Some championships end. But the people who become your family? They're forever. Four couples. Four futures. One final season together.

Book Four of the Northlake Rivals series Ivy Moreau was raised to hate football. As Northlake's women's hockey captain and the daughter of a four-time Stanley Cup champion, Ivy knows exactly where her loyalty belongs: on the ice, with her team, and as far away from Kappa football boys as possible. Especially Luca Bennett. The brooding linebacker in jersey #44 has been her enemy since freshman year, when one fight between him and her brother turned football and hockey into something personal. Since then, Ivy and Luca have survived three years of insults, pranks, rivalry tension, and a few mistakes neither of them likes to talk about. Then Vegas happens. One drunk night. One stupid bet. One fake wedding meant to make Maddox Vale lose two hundred dollars. Except the wedding was never fake. Now Ivy Moreau is legally married to the football player she swore she hated, the photos are everywhere, and Northlake's biggest rivalry has officially turned into a campus-wide scandal. Football and hockey were never supposed to merge like this. They were supposed to stay rivals. But Ivy and Luca might be the ones who finally break the rivalry for good.

Book Three of the Northlake Rivals series Maddox Vale is Northlake's favorite disaster. A cocky wide receiver in jersey #11, Maddox is known for impossible catches, bad decisions, and a smile that gets him out of almost anything. He treats life like one long joke because jokes are easier than grief, and no one asks questions when he's making them laugh. Then Star Carter walks into his life. A dance major and cheerleader with a sharp mouth, pretty smile, and no patience for football boys who think charm counts as a personality, Star sees through Maddox faster than he's ready for. She's not impressed by his flirting, not fooled by his jokes, and definitely not interested in becoming another girl in his highlight reel. But when Northlake's summer Victory Tour forces them together for rehearsals, promo events, and late-night campus chaos, the sparks between them become impossible to ignore. Star performs to tell the truth. Maddox performs to hide it. And the closer they get, the more Maddox realizes some girls don't just catch your attention. Some girls set your whole world on fire.

Running From Home Book Two in the NorthLake Series Roman Calloway, NorthLake's guarded running back, has spent his whole life trying to outrun the guilt of leaving home behind. Cassandra "Cassie" Blake looks like the perfect sorority girl - pretty, polished, and impossible to break. But behind her perfect smile is a girl just as tired of pretending as Roman is. When Kappa Rho Delta and Cassie's sorority are forced to work together for a campus fundraiser, Roman and Cassie go from judging each other to seeing the cracks no one else notices. He thinks love means carrying everything alone. She thinks love means never looking messy. But the closer they get, the harder it becomes to keep running from the truth. Running From Home is the second book in the NorthLake Series, a college sports romance about guilt, perfection, found family, and the kind of love that finally feels like home.

Playing for Keeps Book One in the northlake series At Northlake University, football isn't just a sport. It's a religion. Beckett Hayes is the golden boy quarterback everyone worships: talented, charming, untouchable, and carrying the weight of a legacy he never asked for. With scouts watching, a famous father pushing, and an entire campus expecting perfection, Beckett knows how to perform under pressure. What he doesn't know is how to breathe outside of it. Sienna Hart has every reason to hate what football represents. As a journalism student, she wants nothing to do with Northlake's obsession with athletes, stadium lights, and boys who get praised for breaking themselves. But when an assignment forces her into the world she's spent years avoiding, Sienna starts digging past the noise, the wins, and the worship. What begins as a simple sports column turns into something deeper: a story about injury, pressure, loyalty, and the brutal cost of being treated like a body before a person. And Beckett Hayes? He was supposed to be just another source. But the more Sienna sees behind the perfect smile, the harder it becomes to keep her distance. Beckett isn't the arrogant football god she expected. He's exhausted, trapped, and quietly falling apart under expectations no one else seems willing to question. Sienna doesn't do football players. Beckett doesn't know how to ask for help. But somewhere between interviews, stadium lights, family wounds, and quiet places away from campus, they begin to realize that some stories are impossible to write without getting your heart involved. Playing for Keeps is the first book in the Northlake series: a college sports romance about pressure, healing, messy love, and learning that winning means nothing if you lose yourself in the game.

'Accidents happen'. That's what people say. Yet, some accidents take away from us more than others. Ethan had it all. Everything was lined up in front of him. Popularity, looks, friends, a hot girlfriend and a promised future in football. In one incident that resulted in a horrible accident, he lost it all. The best friend, the girlfriend, the planned future and his sight. Fighting through darkness and depression, he built high walls that kept everyone out. Skye suffered loss too, but she kept strong for the sake of her little brother, Matt. With her aunt and brother, leaving home and moving to a new place seemed like the perfect solution. A new start that they all needed. Skye's plan was to blend in and keep to herself. Well, not the easiest task when it was obvious as daylight that you were the new girl at school. Especially when she, literally, bumped into Ethan. For Ethan who has been isolating himself and absolutely independent that he pushed everyone away, and Skye being stubborn and not in-the-least shy on saying what she thought openly, fighting and bickering was unpreventable. Skye saw through the walls that Ethan has built around himself. Drawn to him, slowly, their friendship started to turn into something else. Ranked: 2019 #1 in uplifting Sep & Dec #1 in heart-warming Oct 2020 #1 in uplifting #1 in heart-warming Jan #2 in lifechanging Jan #2 in finding Jan

𝐈'𝐦 𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐈'𝐦 𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐟. When her roommate is offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Faye is forced to find a new roommate at the last minute. Who could be better suited for the position than her best friend Reece? The two of them have been inseparable since they first met, moving in together isn't such a big deal. But both of them have a secret that they're keeping, and the close quarters make it harder to keep those secrets hidden inside. Faye's done something she wasn't supposed to, and now she's afraid that she's waited too long to be forgiven. Reece is in love with someone who doesn't love him back. And she now lives down the hall.