(Excerpt) I looked up into his gorgeous, honey-colored eyes and felt my heart begin to thrum with the love that was trying to over take me. His eyes were piercing and seemed to hold some unknown emotion that he was having a hard time controlling. The wind whispered against my bare legs and shoulders and I instantly regretted the tank top, blue jean shorts, and cowboy boots. I shivered unconsciously and he looked at me with concerned eyes. Without speaking, he slipped off his plaid button-up shirt and slipped it onto my shoulders. My cheeks instantly flushed a bright red. “How do you do it?” he asked me in wonder. “Do what?” I asked, confused. “Steal away my attention even with this captivating view surrounding me,” he frowned. My cheeks flushed even redder, “You are so cheesy and romantic, you know it? You’re like my own personal redneck Romeo.” “If I’m a redneck Romeo, then you are definitely my tan-legged Juliet,” he smirked and I knew that I was done for.

Lyra Hansson wouldn't exactly call herself an actor - she was just excellent at lying. A simple blink of one of her bright green eyes, a pout from her strawberry pink lips, and any word that escaped her mouth not only would you believe, but you'd obey. When her talented tongue almost lands her in juvie, her parents decide that some good old fashioned community service will help keep their daughter in check. Enter wannabe director Miller Connery, a homeschooled nearly college freshman desperate to find a subject for his semester film project. When Lyra accidentally stumbles in on his casting call, she's intriguing (and annoying enough) for him to immediately pick her for the role. It was only supposed to be a simple expose. But what is one to do when they start to think of kissing the lips behind the camera?

She's helpless like a baby deer. She's a child stuck in a thirteen year olds body. Ryan, her older sister has taken her under her wing sence their mother abandoned them at the hospital after Cameron was born with Tourette's. Ryan took her from the hospital and ran, ran until she felt safe. She was left to fend for herself and a newborn, squatting in apartments until the age of twenty. Now at twenty three she is more protective of her than ever but when she has a seizure and they find Ryan's bipolar getting worse they put her up for a adoption as she is in the hospital. Then Ryan fights for her in everyway possible so that her sister won't be abandoned again.