She looked up and paused in her stirring, the same disbelief surfacing on her face. "What? I've grown horns?"He shook his head. Curves. She'd grown curves and soft skin and a rosy tint to her cheeks.——-Nelson Trader's after-school tutoring with fellow senior, Brigitte Pink, is a mutual secret. No one can know he's spending time with her or the reason why. He has to protect his reputation. Something she says she's willing to go along with at first.Yet so much time together changes everything. Her adoration and his growing feelings require him to surrender the one thing he can't seem to let go of. His pride.A sweet short story of teen romance by best-selling author, SUZANNE D. WILLIAMS.

The majesty of the state, purple mountains rising around them, and rugged slopes lined with larch and fir and pine, stole her breath. She was a speck amidst so much grandeur. But the man, dusty blue jeans, worn boots, his cheeks brushed with a few days' growth of beard, he was a fixture among it, as meant to exist in that environment as the boulders jutting out from the path.Fear and humiliation sent Lottie Stratton running from her home in Georgia to her uncle's place in Northern Montana. With no more than an overnight bag for what might be a permanent stay, she's unprepared for the upcoming winter. And the handsome cowboy whose doorstep she stumbles up on.Harlowe Chapman's home is the back of a horse, his friends the herd of cows he tends. He grew up in these mountains, his entire goal to be as good a man as his father was. Lottie's arrival, unplanned, unexplained, highlights the emptiness of his days. He's been alone far too...

The silence of his exit soured the food. Brenna lay down and stared toward the ceiling, yet past it toward the moment Kees had fired his rifle and shot the grizzly. He didn't see what she did – skill and knowledge earned through hard work, and some God-given sense no one else seemed to have. He wanted her to let go, but like her love for Montana, he'd grown in her, as fixed as the mountains that made this land what it was. And no amount of man's efforts could remove either one.——-After yet another argument with her dad, Brenna Stratton fled into the rain, riding her horse deep into the Montana countryside. An expert horsewoman, she has no fear of survival, until a mudslide traps her on the backside of a mountain face-to-face with a male grizzly.The irony of being asked to locate the one girl he can't stand struck Kees Butler from the start. Brenna has tailed after him for years with stars in her eyes. But in this wet weather, he's the best tracker in...

She pulled her head back, and the expression she gave him spiraled down into his shoes. He'd blown it ... He'd assumed once he held her close, she'd give in to the attraction growing between them. Yet there it was on her face. She wasn't after his money or his status. It'd take way more than either one of those to win her over.***Millionaire playboy Atlas Bellamy never met a woman he couldn't have. Until Meghan Moralez. An accomplished doctor with a thriving practice, she's not swayed by his money or charm and, seemingly, well able to walk away.Then a twist of circumstance thrusts them together again, and his determination rises. He knows how to win her over. All it'll take is a little time and patience.Except what time he thought he had, he doesn't anymore, and his chance at true love might just be fading away.

"When are you going to do the very thing you always say that you want?" Atlas continued. Calix released his held breath, willing the tightness in his chest to relax, but found, instead, his teeth grinding together. "Which is what?"Atlas spoke evenly. "Cast off your mother's influence and make up your own mind. Do you like Flynn or not?"Calix snapped out his answer. "Yes."***Billionaire, Calix Steele has forever lived in the shadow his father cast when he died and the scarcity and neglect at the hands of his mother.Until he meets Flynn Burckhardt. She's all the things he's never looked for in a woman - independent, self-sufficient, and free. She shows him a different side of himself, a man able to stand up to the pressures of his life.But their mutual attraction has unexpected consequences that the secrets of his past might destroy once and for all.