Autumn's Forbidden Kiss

Archer Kade is suddenly everywhere in Autumn Ridge, helping with the fall festival and running Horseshoe Holler Stables, and my father the mayor is not thrilled.

I spent years telling myself a five-year crush on that cowboy was over, left behind with braces, pimply skin, and a diary full of our names.

Coming home from college this fall shows I was wrong: the young ex-rodeo star I used to dream about is a man now, making me laugh and walking me home.

He looks at me as if I am no longer the teenager in too much sparkly eyeshadow, even while I admit my dad is right to call him trouble.

I left town to get over him, yet this sweet, closed-door autumn keeps pulling me back.