❝Thank you so much, what's your name?❞ The handsome dark brown haired guy who finally notices me asks. ❝I'm just the girl at the bakery.❞ I smiled kindly at him and then left to go back to work. My name is Andrea Taylor Heightmore. And I work/live at the bakery. Well I live in an apartment above it with my best friend Mai who's a year older than me. But we've been friends for what feels like an eternity. The handsome guy who finally noticed me is Peter Greene. And he's the guy that me and every girl in the whole school population has a crush on. I have three classes with him and two involve me sitting behind him and one class to where I'm sitting next to him. And here's our little story on how we became a couple.

The only thing Mia Hope has in common with Jake Carpenter, Artwood High's most popular quarterback, is a love for the coffee served at The Coffee Pod. He wants her to tutor him - and if she can do it without a single cup of coffee, he'll pay her triple. Easy. Nothing could go wrong, right? ***** When Jake learns he's failing English, he knows he needs to pull his grades up or he'll risk being kicked off the football team. He strikes a deal with the elusive Mia - the quiet girl with secrets. If she can't go without a single cup of coffee, she has to tutor him for free. If she can, he'll pay her triple, and with Christmas around the corner, there's nothing Mia needs more than money. But as the pair grow closer, Jake learns the real reason for Mia's bad habit, and what starts as an innocent bet between enemies grows into something more serious. Can the pair survive the next two months with their hearts - and secrets - still intact? Content/trigger warning: This story contains themes of assault and abuse. [[word count: 60,000 - 70,000]] Cover designed by Jenna Conrad The Coffee Pact now has a sequel: The Kissing Pact

Sadie Hayes is a 18 year old country girl in Wyoming who helps her family on their ranch, she loves rodeos and loves being in them as well she has the free spirit of untamed horses, and when Sadie meets 20 year old Blake Kelly he falls hard for her and she teaches the competitive bull rider about living life free like the wild mustangs.

Rylin loves being out on the rodeo circuit. Now traveling with Wyatt's girlfriend is fun as it is. She knows Rob personally and thinks of him as another older brother. She barrel races and helps out with the other horses traveling with her and her traveling buddy. Jase Hunter, son of Max Hunter. His last girlfriend was spotted cheating on him as he talked to someone about another ordeal. Now he's usually too drunk to care about girls and what the other cowboys think.

Jax Ray is the second oldest of Buck Ray's boys. He looked up to his older brother for help when he needed it. The topic of school has never been his favorite. At age sixteen he's been to the point of being expelled from school more than once, but is good as gold at the ranch. His parents can't homeschool him when they have to help run the ranch. Mikayla is the oldest out of three. Her mother died when she was very young. Now she's got a stepmother and her twin brothers in her life. After moving to Marshall she's hoping for a fresh start.

Zach is the youngest of the Ray brothers. After meeting Ali he's been drinking and has been trouble to his brothers'. Kat Edwards, the name is pretty explanatory she's related to the mayor and Sawyer, the Rays' enemy. She works at the feed store in Marshall. What happens in a bar and involves two people is anyone's guess. But Kat has a bone to pick with Zach two months after her birthday.

Bucky is the oldest of the three brothers and is happy that his brother Colt found love. Now he wants it for himself but can't seem to find it. Ali is new to town and wants to get a job working on a ranch. When she sees a sign in the feed store for help wanted at Triple R Ranch. Will she take it or find somewhere else?

As one of Georgia's most successful ranchers, Rhye Collins doesn't have time to even consider dating, but that changes when he meets Katrina Davis. When he sees the beautiful, but broken, girl. It is an instant attraction. It isn't a sexual attraction, but an urge to protect the innocent beauty from a horrible past and an even less desirable future. When he finds out her caregiver is trying to force her into a marriage with a man who thinks she is useless, he steps in and does the only thing a southern cowboy can do and asks her to marry him. Katrina quickly accepts his offer, but doesn't believe she can be the wife he deserves. She has been brought up to believe a woman's place was in the home. A wife, by her definition, is someone who can cook, clean and bare children, things she has never been able to do, not that she has been given the chance. Rhye doesn't believe that, he feels a marriage is a partnership and he is so proud that God gave him Katrina as a partner, but can he convince her of that? Find out in "My Cowboy, My Hero".

Ryan wasn't expecting to end up with the captain of the hockey team as a roommate, and she certainly didn't expect the initial sexual tension between them to blossom into love. ***** In desperate need of a place to stay, Ryan Winters doesn't see an issue with rooming with the captain of the hockey team, Ethan Russell. After all, she's focused on her studies, getting over an ex, and honestly, not that into athletes. Though the more time she spends getting to know her new roommate, the more it becomes apparent that Ethan is the exact type of guy she could fall for. When lines begin to blur and drama from the past threatens to tear them apart, can the two of them find a way to keep both their friendship-and their relationship-from crumbling to pieces? [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]] Cover designed by April Alforque