Spy Springs Series by Vanessa Gray Bartal

Tess Ridge grew up on a South Texas ranch, surrounded by her friends and family. It was the best possible upbringing for a kid, but her reasons for being there were mixed. Few people knew about the event that changed Tess's life, putting her on the path to becoming a profiler for the FBI... moreTess Ridge grew up on a South Texas ranch, surrounded by her friends and family. It was the best possible upbringing for a kid, but her reasons for being there were mixed. Few people knew about the event that changed Tess's life, putting her on the path to becoming a profiler for the FBI. For years she's done everything possible to follow her dream, including a double major at Texas A&M, where she is now a serious and buckled down senior, one who has forgotten how to have fun, if she ever knew. With six months left in her senior year, she's in panic mode, trying to shove four years of college living into her overcrowded life.Cobalt Bishop, Tess's neighbor on the ranch, has reached godlike status as the quarterback of Texas A&M's elite football program. He's a contender for the Heisman and a likely first round draft pick. Life couldn't be better for Coby, who never met a party he didn't make livelier, but he's hiding a secret no one knows until, on a return trip from home, Coby and Tess will be plunged into danger that will shake up their lives and intersect their paths in unforeseeable ways.Opposites in every way, Coby and Tess have never gotten along, but when they realize how much they need each other, they'll only have a few months to get things straightened out. Graduation looms, and somewhere a killer waits and watches.A new spinoff series from the popular Spies Like Us Series, Once Upon A Sweetheart Tree follows the offspring of four characters in the original, Cameron and Maggie Ridge and Blue and Jane Bishop. less

There was no agony like the agony of unrequited love, unless it was unrequited love with your best friend, who happened to be the most perfect man on the planet. Katie Mosier tried hard, but there was no getting over Nathaniel Ridge, and especially not since he became impossibly more perfect by becoming a Navy SEAL. Sometimes she swore he had a perpetual halo or supernaturally good lighting wherever he went... moreThere was no agony like the agony of unrequited love, unless it was unrequited love with your best friend, who happened to be the most perfect man on the planet. Katie Mosier tried hard, but there was no getting over Nathaniel Ridge, and especially not since he became impossibly more perfect by becoming a Navy SEAL. Sometimes she swore he had a perpetual halo or supernaturally good lighting wherever he went.Lately it had been better, because Nathaniel was stationed in San Diego and often out of the country on secret assignments. But when he returned to their small Texas town to visit, that was when Katie's agony arrived, too. Now it had become too much to bear. As much as she loved him, she had decided to avoid him by any means necessary, even if it meant occasionally plunging out of sight, no easy task in such a small town. But as determined as Katie was to hide from him, Nathaniel was as determined to find her. And whatever Nathaniel Ridge set his mind on, Nathaniel Ridge got, even if it meant tossing her over his shoulder and carrying her out of town. He needed to know why Katie kept disappearing, even if her answer changed their lives in irrevocable ways. Because Nathaniel had never had a friend like Katie. He couldn't lose her, even if it meant upending his entire life and telling Katie his deepest secret.The second book in the sweet and wholesome Spy Springs series, a spinoff of the popular Spies Like Us series. less