Dating The Quarterback

Harley lost the bet and now it’s time to pay up. This loner will have to face her greatest fear...and say yes to a date with the quarterback. After years of being bullied and ignored at her old school, Harley isn’t about to make waves at Talmore High. She knows better than to mess with the cocky jerks on the football team. When the lead alpha starts to single her out she’s sure that it’s just a joke at her expense. There's no way he could really be interested in a geeky art nerd like her. After all, Tristan isn't just a quarterback, he's larger than life. He's the school's most revered athlete, the guy all the girls drool over. He might as well be a superhero in disguise. An ancient god come back to live among mere mortals... The guy was basically Thor. But the more she gets to know him, the more she has to wonder just how wrong she's been about the guy she'd thought was an untouchable god among men. Maybe he wasn't what she'd thought at all. Wonders of wonders, the handsome hottie quarterback might just be...nice. And somehow that's the scariest thought of all. A jerk she could handle. But a good guy? He might just be the one to break her heart. Author's Note: This is a sweet YA contemporary romance and the second part of a duet. While this romance is standalone, it's filled with spoilers for book one. Be sure to read Charming the Cheerleader first!

Book DescriptionGet a genealogy DNA kit for the holidays? Then this romance novel with a side of family tree hunting will be a fun fit for you.Dating the Quarterback: A Standalone Young Adult Contemporary RomanceWhen a curious high school senior touches a mystic ring, she glimpses her own future--an impossible love with the bad boy star quarterback.Do you choose your fate, or does it choose you? That is the question Chelsea faces in Dating the Quarterback. Chelsea's an achiever, aiming high, on track for valedictorian. No time for dating or hook-ups. If a guy isn't "all in," she doesn't need him.Sterling's angry. First to shrug, first to walk out, first to say, "Why bother? Relationships don't work."He is not what she wants. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong guy.During a project at the museum, Chelsea holds a ring. Her current reality swirls away, and she glimpses what her life could be like. She isn't hand-in-hand with a nice guy. She daydreams that she's in Paris, and in front of her is the bad boy star quarterback. He drops to his knee and pulls out a ring...Chelsea's faced with two futures. The one she'd planned and one with new possibilities.First person, happily ever after, single female POV

Harley lost the bet and now it's time to pay up. This loner will have to face her greatest fear...and say yes to a date with the quarterback. After years of being bullied and ignored at her old school, Harley isn't about to make waves at Talmore High. She knows better than to mess with the cocky jerks on the football team. When the lead alpha starts to single her out she's sure that it's just a joke at her expense. There's no way he could really be interested in a geeky art nerd like her. After all, Tristan isn't just a quarterback, he's larger than life. He's the school's most revered athlete, the guy all the girls drool over. He might as well be a superhero in disguise. An ancient god come back to live among mere mortals...The guy was basically Thor.But the more she gets to know him, the more she has to wonder just how wrong she's been about the guy she'd thought was an untouchable god among men. Maybe he wasn't what she'd thought at all. Wonders of wonders, the handsome hottie quarterback might just be...nice. And somehow that's the scariest thought of all. A jerk she could handle. But a good guy? He might just be the one to break her heart.Author's Note: This is the second part of a duet. While this romance is standalone, it's filled with spoilers for book one.

How many decisions do you think the average person makes in a day? How can these choices affect our lives, both positively and negatively? Author Waymond Rodgers illustrates four basic concepts of decision making in a single model that produces a limited number of possible courses of action. Process Thinking: Six Pathways to Successful Decision Making allows you to gauge which of the pathways is appropriate for a particular situation. This, in turn, can contribute an overall improvement in your happiness, relationships, finances, education, and employment. "Dr. Rodgers' breakthrough analysis of decision making should be mandatory reading for anyone managing people or negotiating transactions." -Hank Adler, C.P.A., accounting professor, Chapman University, and retired partner, Deloitte & Touche "I think your formulaic approach to decision making will make it much easier for people to make correct choices. Your approach forces decision makers to address the role their own subjective feelings (perceptions) have upon the process. It thereby makes the choice much more objective and rational." -Randall L. Erickson, J.D., partner in the California office of Crowell & Moring and chair of the firm's construction group

Who knew fake dating the quarterback would be the key to the life I've always wanted? The second I turn eighteen, the only thing I want to do is skip town. My goal is to buy a van, make it livable, and spend the next year of my life on the road until I find someplace to settle for good. After being voted Most Likely To: Never Get A Boyfriend by the popular crowd at school, I'm ready to say bye-bye to mean girls, gossips, and bad memories, and hello to a fresh start by leaving Brentwood in the rearview mirror. But then I'm forced to move in with my uncle, my cousin buys the van I had my eyes on, and suddenly my freedom is now a graduation present held hostage until the end of the school year. There is one way to turn the situation around, though... and that's to fake date the shy, quiet, emotionally reserved Brentwood High star quarterback, Landon Settler. If I can convince my cousin that I'm in love, he'll give me the van early, and my escape plan is back on. Landon's the perfect fake dating partner-he's voted Most Likely To: Never Get A Girlfriend by his friends, he doesn't talk back, and I'll help him make the girl he likes jealous while he turns into my one-way ticket to freedom. And unlike anyone else in the popular crowd, he's actually a little fun to be around. I just have to last until homecoming and not catch feelings for the freckled boy that blushes way too easily. But as we're continually forced to put on a lovey-dovey show for his friends-and get caught in increasingly compromised positions-keeping my feelings in check, and my eyes on the freedom prize, becomes easier said than done. Fake Dating the Football Player is a YA sweet and swoony fake relationship romance in the Most Likely To standalone series by Sarah Sutton

"Dak: I've got a big pro football contract, a big appetite for women, and a big mouth. It gets me into trouble more often than not... but this time it lands me with a nerdy little PR gatekeeper who is supposed to control me. But good luck with that. Eloise and her kitten sweathers and adorable glasses have me thinking about her in a whole different way. Eloise: I'm not your typical nerd girl. Instead of video games, I love football. I've landed my dream job managing social media for my favorite team, but with Dakota North as quarterback it's a 24/7 job. When I'm told I have to spend a week making sure Dak doesn't tweet, he seems determined to use that time to flirt wiht me. I have to ask my self, what is more important - losing my virginity to a bad boy quarterback or keeping my perfect job." -- publisher

In the fall of 2009, the Fox network took a bold step in their primetime television lineup. Borrowing from the success of reality music performance shows like its own American Idol, the network introduced us to the students at McKinley High School, a fictional high school in Lima, OH, and home to the glee club known as the New Directions. The group is made up of freaks and geeks who feel the wrath of being “different.” The cool kids are hell bent on making life difficult for the students in glee club. Yet, because of the determination of Mr. Will Schuester, the club’s advisor, along with a few great songs, Glee has brought a new tone of inclusion to modern television and direct parallels can be seen between the experiences of the show choir members and what is happening in contemporary society. Glee has shown the importance of examining the intersections of pop culture and social issues; this text will encourage thinking on how effective the show has been beyond the screen. Essays provide critical analyses of the show, its characters, and its overall usefulness as a commentary on social issues. The show’s content often deals with subject matter that would lend easily to critique around such social issues as sexuality, bullying, interpersonal communication, conflict resolution, and family relationships. This text invites readers to examine the intersections between media, society, and the individual.

Just Call Me Whitey is a coming of age story set in a half-forgotten America at the cusp of tectonic national—and generational—changes that still deeply resonate. It reveals a time and place when America was only first emerging from its sordid history of bigotry and hate, where a black man could not become President of the United States and was routinely denied even society’s most common conveniences such as the use of a lunch counter or a public drinking fountain. The focus is on the life of Bill Doyle as he learns to relate his own life to others without using the color bar. Time and toil have rendered an earlier version of Bill’s story, published in 2010 as Smartass, An Awakening, even more relevant today. Brian Kelly graduated from Harvard with honors in English in 1967. He is currently working on four additional novels, Our American, Mother Russia, Commie Spy and The Soviet Patriot From Brooklyn, to complete a Russian quintet which began with The Irish Smuggler, a tale of international criminal adventure, published in 2013. Our American will be published in 2016 and Mother Russia in early 2017. Kelly’s first novel, Tropic of Paradise, A Tahitian Love story, published in 2010, is another coming of age tale, but set on the ‘island of love’ in a golden hued South Pacific. Kelly currently lives and works far from Tahiti, in Bushwick, Brooklyn.