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A Young Adult Romance Series

Small town. Big personalities. First loves that change everything.​

 

Set in the charming town of Spring Creek, this YA contemporary romance series follows teens as they navigate first love, friendship, family expectations, and the dreams that shape their futures. With heartfelt moments, swoony crushes, and just enough small-town chaos, Hillside Spring Creek captures the magic (and messiness) of growing up.​

 

Perfect for readers who love sweet romance, emotional coming-of-age stories, and happily-ever-afters worth waiting for.

Three weeks after her longtime boyfriend dumps her, high school Senior and Queen Bee, Penny Wilson, declares she is over him and done with dating.

 

But life without her ex is more difficult than simply repeating a few affirmations. A queen bee needs a king or she wobbles dangerously close to the edge of the popularity ladder. 


To make matters worse, Penny's dad announces he's hired Wrangler-wearing calf roper, Ty Jackson, to work on their English horse farm. Nevermind his curly blond hair and six-pack abs—he's a rodeo team bottom runger, and no way is Penny going to admit she

Not Crushing on the Cowboy

Book One

knows him, let alone allow him into her social circle.

Then Ty convinces her he can teach her to connect more deeply with her horse and settle her nerves in the show arena. And as they work together, Penny discovers that while she might be riding better, being around Ty does nothing to settle her nerves.

Will a hush-hush relationship with Ty make matters worse with her dad? And what if her friends at school discover Ty is more than just a farmhand? Because between her show ambitions and her social status, Penny is walking a fine line—and the price is everything that matters to her most.

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Senior Kelsey Quinn had it all. Nordstrom platinum card. Lux car. Hot, rich boyfriend. Until her dad lost his job.

 

Flash forward six months. Kelsey and her two sisters are stuck in a dilapidated farmhouse in the middle of “Hickville”, Texas. And if feeding chickens, slopping pigs, and mucking stalls isn’t bad enough; they also have to work in their parent’s feed store.

 

Kelsey is determined to find a way to return to the Cinderella life she left in Chicago. But she doesn’t count on meeting the six-foot plus cowboy with the easy attitude and smiling eyes.

Austin McCoy feels sorry for the three greenhorn sisters from Chicago. It must be hell to have been plucked from their private school and shopping malls and plunked in the middle of Hillside, Texas. But the

Had me at Howdy

Book Two

sister who really gets his pulse jumping is the oldest, Kelsey. On the outside she’s all attitude. But when no one is looking and she forgets to be angry, he sees the other side of Kelsey Quinn. The one who’s eyes light up when she feeds the chickens.

 

Now all he has to do is convince her the guy she really wants is the cowboy working with her, not some rich dude taking her to a ball in Chicago.

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secrets in a
small town

Book Three

New school. New friends. New chance to leave her mistakes behind.

 

Ryan Quinn came to town for a fresh start.

Desperate to fit in and leave the past behind, Ryan joins the school's most respected club. But keeping her past buried isn’t easy in a small town. And when her secret is exposed, she becomes a target of a vicious attack that leaves more than her pride bruised.

Senior, Justin Hayes is a good guy wrapped in a bad-boy reputation, but nobody sees the chaos waiting for him at home. When he rescues Ryan from her attackers, an unexpected friendship sparks between them. One that quickly becomes something more.

But small towns don’t forgive easily, and secrets have a way of finding daylight.

As Ryan struggles to move beyond her past, and Justin struggles to hold his fractured family together, will they risk their hearts at the cost of exposing the truth?

Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.

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The Truth about
cassidy

Book Four

Thirty years ago, Cassidy Jones died under mysterious circumstances.

Freshman Mackenzie Quinn wants nothing to do with the mystery. But when her longtime crush, Braden McGuire, becomes determined to uncover the truth about Cassidy’s death, Mackenzie finds herself drawn into a cold case with her dad as the prime suspect.

As the case progresses, feelings grow between Mackenzie and her best friend, Travis, when they discover secrets in Cassidy’s long-hidden diary that were never meant to see the light of day. And it becomes harder to separate the truth from rumor, guilt from innocence, and friendship from something more.

To make matters worse, a jealous Braden betrays her by stealing the diary — the diary she promised Travis she would keep safe. As a result, shocking connections emerge that could threaten both her and Travis’s families.

 

Now, with the past closing in and decades-old secrets unraveling, can Travis forgive Mackenzie for not keeping her word? Can Mackenzie clear her father’s name? Or will the diary prove Mackenzie’s greatest fear — her father might be a murderer after all.

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Three Simple Rules

Book Five

No dating. No drama. No problem. Right?

Fraser Anderson is one of the hottest teenage actors in the UK, but he's virtually unknown in the US. Now he's landed the leading role in a big-budget Hollywood film that could make him an international star.

So how do you prepare a Scot for a role as a Texas high school student? Call him Ethan Smith and embed him in a Texas high school for two weeks. The only catch is he has to follow THREE SIMPLE RULES. 

NO DATING. No Drama. NO Disclosing his true identity.


Jenna Wiley is smart, funny, and laser-focused on earning a

scholarship for a biomedical engineering degree. Her senior year is dedicated to this mission. No matter what. But she doesn't expect to meet shy, goofy, new kid, Ethan Smith. And as their friendship blossoms, her no dating rule begins to wither.

It all comes to a boil when Fraser's biggest secret hits the tabloids and his alter-ego is revealed. The paparazzi swarm Hillside with Jenna in their sights.

Can Fraser convince Jenna that shy, goofy Ethan Smith is closer to real than the image the tabloids have created?

And can she ever forgive him for breaking the most important rule of all? Because for Jenna, when it comes to love and science, the truth is all that matters.

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