Where the Grass is Always Greener

Welcome to Grassland, Alabama – A town that's ten minutes from the coast, but a world away from the glitzy tourism of Gulf Shores. A town that only has two red lights but a 6A High School with a top-ranked state championship football team. A town that is home to Georgia Cooper and Hayden Nichols.Tough, talented, hard-hitting defensive back Hayden Nichols has grown up moving from one foster home to another. Strong, sexy, smart Georgia Cooper has basically raised herself and her younger brother. These two have everything in common, except one thing. Georgia can't wait to get out of Grassland, and Hayden's greatest fear has always been the idea of living anywhere else.In love since childhood, everyone knows that Hayden and Georgia are inevitable. They've always been together and they plan to always be together, All of their dreams include each other. But all of Hayden's dreams happen in Grassland, and Georgia can't imagine being happy in the place that will always see Hayden as a former Gator star and her as his trailer-trash girlfriend.Then during their senior year of high school, tragedy strikes their circle of friends thrusting Hayden into the spotlight and sending Georgia running to safety of academics at a prestigious college out of town. But there's a funny thing about hometowns. They have a way of pulling you back when you least expect it. The call of success out in "the real world" is nothing compared to the pull of Hayden Nichols. And when tragedy finds this duo again, Georgia realizes that she can run from herself, but when it comes to her first love, there's no defense that can stop him.Welcome to Grassland, Al.- A town that took a beautiful boy with long honey-brown hair and hazel eyes and turned him from the boy Georgia Cooper's world revolved around into a football god. This former defensive superstar is going to have to go on the offensive to win back the girl he loves... but the Grassland Gators are known for one thing - winning. Penny Michaels quite simply is a hopeless romantic... all of her characters have one thing in common. They're looking for... and always manage to find... great love.

As teenagers, an uncharacteristic fling altered the lives of Belle Carpenter and Max Cooper forever. They decided right then that it was for the best if they never saw one another again. Instead they fell in love.Now they're back in Grassland, out of college, working at the careers of their dreams and Belle is planning the wedding of the year… to someone else.But in a town known for a tradition of winning, Max isn't about to accept defeat; especially when Belle's putting up such a poor defense.With the help of Max's meddling sister and Belle's protective older brother… not to mention her dad, his surrogate parents, his former QB and fullback best friends and her college roommate… is there any chance that this all-state wide receiver turned coach won't score with the former head cheerleader?Everyone in Alabama knows there's no stopping a Gator when he knows what he wants, and that's never been more true than when high-school sweethearts Return to Grassland. Penny Michaels quite simply is a hopeless romantic... all of her characters have one thing in common. They're looking for... and always manage to find... great love.

Carson Jennings and Fisher Barnes had only two things in common; the friendship they formed on the field playing football for the Grassland Gators, and the fact that they were in love with the same girl.Sexy, dark, mysterious Torie Reyes wanted someone steady and reliable – you don't get more steady and reliable than QB1. But while her high school romance with Carson is on again-off again, her friendship with Fisher becomes the thing she relies on the most. Meanwhile single mother, and maid of honor, Lilly Etheridge has been waiting since the day she moved into her freshman dorm for Belle to fix her up with one of the hot guys from Grassland.Now they're all in Grassland, celebrating the wedding of Max and Belle, and all coming face to face again. Will old romances be rekindled, and old jealousies reawakened? Or will new loves be revealed, and old friendships put to the test?At home in Grassland, will remind you that love comes where you least expect it, family isn't necessarily about blood and home isn't necessarily where you were born, and you don't have to be the champion to be a winner! Penny Michaels quite simply is a hopeless romantic... all of her characters have one thing in common. They're looking for... and always manage to find... great love.