"A Journey for happiness only to discover dreams can be prophetic in the most unexpected way." *** Annie Miller has always imagined her happiness lies under a Sugar Maple tree in Autumn as its leaves change colors. This is why when a chance to leave her small southern town and head north arises, she takes it. Unexpected challenges arise, though, when she meets a surly professor who doesn't understand why anyone would want to sit around and, "watch leaves on a tree die." Can the sassy and spirited Annie melt this professor's heart with the fire of an amber leaf? Or will a string of events lead him to cool more than ever before? *** *This book also contains some mature language and subjects that individuals may find triggering.

Nine chapters of the original First draft. I will provide updates when I can on what will happen next with this story. :) *** Ali Anglesey is the picture of grace, elegance, and poise. She's worked hard to be perfect girl appearance wise, aesthetic wise, friend wise and work wise, but it's all an act. An act she's been able to keep up for nearly ten years. After a fall out with the director of her ballet company though, Ali decides to go from full-time ballerina to full-time college student. Finding herself saddened by the loss of the one and only constant in her life since she was eight years old, she tries to be positive about pursuing a new adventure. That is until an unexpected change in events lands her in Professor Henry Davenport's lecture hall. As her past begins to come back to haunt her, Ali starts to wonder if she's made a terrible mistake stepping out of the safety of her bubble. Will she make it through the semester in one piece or will the handsome Professor threaten to tear apart the carefully constructed life she's built for herself and rip open old wounds she's buried deeply beneath years of toe tape and bandages?