Nichole Ruschelle

What happens when love, secrets, and the spotlight collide? I’ve just been drafted to one of the best teams in the NFL, the Las Vegas Vipers. It should be the happiest time of my life, right? Wrong. Instead, I’m sitting at home, replaying every moment of my breakup with the woman I thought was my forever. Just when I’m drowning in my own misery, my best friend and teammate decides to play Cupid, setting me up on a blind date. Not just any blind date—a Valentine’s Day blind date. Then she walked in. From the moment I saw her, I was hooked. She was everything I didn’t know I needed, though a bit grumpy. But I could work with that. There was just one tiny she doesn’t know who I am or what I do. So, I decided to keep my life as a famous football player under wraps, hoping she’d fall for the real me before she discovered the rest. It seemed like a foolproof plan... until it wasn’t. This is a spicy story about a sunshine of a football player who goes on a blind date for Valentine's Day and meets the grumpy woman of his dreams.

Ashley's story

I was eight when I saw her standing at the end of my driveway. She looked like Rapunzel with that long blonde hair, and I couldn’t take my eyes off her. And when she ordered me to be her best friend… She became mine. Forever. Then the unthinkable happened. I was fourteen when she disappeared. Gone. House empty. Only her cell phone left behind with her final message to me. Never sent. I spent my life getting the training I need to find her. But every search, every mission, left me empty handed. But my feelings, my determination, my hope…those never dimmed. I will find her. And anyone who’s ever hurt her… Will pay. This is the fourth book in The Twisted Grimm Series. It's an interconnected standalone, Rapunzel retelling. You do not have to read the other books to read this one, but you will see the other characters in each book.

Smith Cabot is known as the ultimate player, in hockey and in life. Lately though, the high life doesn’t feel the same and it’s starting to affect his game. When his best friend suggestsretreating to the mountains for the holidays to figure out what he wants in life, he jumps at thechance. Coming up with a plan for his life seems to be easy until he sees Annabelle, his best friend's little sister, and she's all grown up.Annabelle Rogers has always dreamed of a fairytale life. The perfect job. The perfect life. Shehad it all planned out, but when her dream job turns out to be a nightmare, everything changes.Now she's stuck in a small town named Embers Bend for Christmas, alone.Things couldn’t possibly get any worse, right? Wrong. She didn’t expect to come face to face with her brother’s best friend, Smith. Not only is she missing time with her family, but she has to figure out how to survive being in the same houseas the boy she's always had a crush on. Only now he's a man, all man.What happens when Smith and Annabelle are snowed in and forced to be together. Will they be able to make ithappily ever after?