Edward broke Bella's heart the night she came home, wanting to share the happiest news of their lives. She leaves but stays in the marriage for appearances sake. After years apart Bella has decided that she finally wants to move on.

What will Edward do when he realizes that Bella intends to end their marriage? Fight for her? Or Set her free?

Competitive shooter Bella Swan had an Olympic gold medal and dreams of another before witnessing the brutal murder of both her parents.  Now living under a new identity as a high school student in tiny Forks, Washington, she must learn to cope with  the loss of both her family and her future.  When she meets the local math teacher and her older "foster-brother", Edward Cullen, things are complicated by an instant and unexpected attraction.

Warning: Some scenes, including the opening chapter of this story, describe graphic events and gun violence which may be upsetting to sensitive readers.  Please read with caution.

**Thank you so much for nominating Arms for Best Bella & Edward!! 

**Arms was featured on the Lemonade Stand!  For more info and other rec's, visit The Lemonade Stand by clicking the image above!

Bella is a witness in peril. Emmett Cullen is the deputy assigned to protect her. When the witness protection program proves unsafe, Emmett has Bella pose as his brother Edward's fiancée. ExB. AU/AH.

Edward left Bella in a misguided attempt to save her. Years later, Bella crosses paths with the Cullen family during her University studies and her world is turned upside down with the potential of her love's return and a renewed danger that threatens to end it all. Will Edward have to save her, or will she manage to save herself?

***BANNER BY CHILDOFSUMMER - THANK YOU!!***

***BANNER BY BABISTARR - THANK YOU!!!***

What’s a girl to do when she determines that there aren’t any good men left?  She creates them.  Bella Swan was unlucky in love, so she started creating dream men in fiction.  She wrote about the kind of man she’d love to meet and fall in love with, and for the amount of time it took to write her romance novels, she felt like she had a love of her own.  It wasn’t real, but in her opinion, real love wasn’t something that was within her grasp, so the fantasy was better than nothing. 

One day, suffering from writer’s block, she went to the corner café for a change of scenery.  When a cowboy tripped over her purse, she was so captivated by his appearance, that she had inspiration for a new character in her latest book.  He walked away with only a few words in her direction, and all she had was the visual of his green eyes and wild hair to go on, but for her, it was enough to fuel her imagination.

The stars at night are big and bright…deep in the heart of Texas.  Life holds mysteries that one can never fathom, and maybe there’s such a thing as fate.  Maybe, every once in a while, fate gives a hand to a lonesome cowboy and a romantic at heart…sometimes with a little help from a rabbit.

AH/OOC.  Canon couples.  Rated NC-17 for a reason like always.  Saddle up…we’re going for a ride.

One and a half years. That’s how long it's been since Edward Cullen had banished himself and his family from Isabella Swan’s life, from Forks, from the one place they truly felt at home. 

A lot can change in that small amount of time, and it becomes painfully apparent to the Cullen’s when they come face to face with the girl they left behind, only she’s not the same girl anymore.

In an effort to protect herself from the pain of her past, she has become more confident, self assured and fierce. She’s a fighter now and their fate, along with many others, now rests in her hands.

Will she save them or punish them for past grievances?

AU set during New Moon

Let me set everyones mind at ease about the coupling in this story. It IS completely CANON. That means that no matter what I may make it look like between Bella and Marcus by the end of this fic Edward and Bella will be together again...well sort of. 

Bella takes a vacation to Hilton Head Island in South Carolina to meet Alice's new boyfriend, Jasper. Rosalie and Emmett come along, too, just in case Bella didn't feel like enough of a fifth wheel. With Jasper's roommate out of town, Bella has his nice big bed all to herself. Until Edward comes home in the middle of the night...

Beautiful banner by the awesome achelle131

When Charlie goes over Bella's head and hires a gorgeous and cocky new employee for the ranch, will she be able to fight her growing attraction to him as much as she fights with him?

Rated NC-17 for language, UST and future lemons.

AH OOC

 Horse Play has a Twilighted Forum!!

Come play with us for general discussions and snippets of what's to come!

Horse Play was nominated for several Sunflower Awards and took home

Thanks to all who voted! It was truly an honour just to be nominated and congrats to all my fellow nominees and winners!

Bella and Edward have been pen pals (the traditional kind, pen and paper stuff) for over a decade, but they never met for reasons even they didn’t know. After fourteen years of “courting through the postal service” and not realizing it, Bella gets engaged to Emmett, a fellow lawyer at the prestigious firm of Ateara, Call, and Uley. They move fast, and a wedding is set for a mere four months after they get engaged. Bella invites Edward to the wedding, wanting to finally meet her longtime friend, and when things go sour the night of the rehearsal dinner, Bella, in her shock, ends up in Edward’s arms. And this is all just the tip of the iceberg for these two…

Rated NC-17 for mature sexual content. Little to no bad language.

*banner by enchanted-mind*

Cheers ms_ambrosia for another unbelievable banner!

Cool Dead Confederate banner by the bodacious Bell J.

DEAD CONFEDERATES BLOG (Go here for everything you ever wanted to know about the DC vampire crew, including all the chapters with songs, brilliant fan-art, slideshows, announcements, etc): http://deadconfeds.wordpress.com/

Rebelward Without a Cause (DC outtakes) Blog: http://rebelward.wordpress.com/

In the dirty south, Eddie’s a sexy, shit kickin' son-of-a-gun; a one-hundred-and-some-year-old vampire raising hell with his brothers Jizzper and Bubba.  The good ol’ boys are brought up by their bootstraps with the advent of the crystal ball totin’ thief, Alice, the vigilante waitress Rose, and the lynchpin--Eddie’s cantata and aspiring taxidermist--Bella.

Amidst the jam-jar-drawlin’ accents, a slow and sultry seduction of sassy Bella, the knee-slappin’ humor of rapid buckshot quibbles, quips and wit, Eddie comes to life as never before.  And all the mud in the Mississippi can’t dampen the man burning within him as he pursues his woman, combats the circling attacks of the vulturous Volturi, and is pelted by Alice’s gnarly visions of a future with a vampire Bella who will either be the savior, or the assassin, of the Cullen clan.  

Dead Confederates is a light, funny, erotic read crackling under a terrifying vampire horror story, all set in Cainwhore, South Carolina.  C’mon along and ‘put some South in your mouth’.

Thank you Mer (frol223) for the summary idea!

Eddie interview on Sparkling Citrus: http://sparklingcitrus.weebly.com/character-interveiws.html

Most INCREDIBLE rec ever, by kstew411 on Dead Confederates: http://robmyworld.com/2010/04/06/dead-confederates-ff-recs-by-kstew411/

Featured on The Fictionators: http://www.fictionators.com/2009/06/dead-confederates-by-golden-meadow.html

Featured on The Little Known Ficster: http://thelittleknownficster.blogspot.com/2009/08/recs-for-week-of-monday-august-17.html?zx=dbdc3b5b438cda54

Dead Confederate Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsnT8_xAX-Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1o3Yn4oMLo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNqAUDVKS_k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cCz8r6Le6o

Dead Confederates Youtube Channel (with all the DC playlists):

http://www.youtube.com/user/RebelRie?feature=mhum

Eddie DcCullen on Facebook (this is an NC-17 account. Do not friend him unless you have a dedicated fanfiction account and are 18 or over):

Eddie DcCullen

Isabella Swan met the Cullens when she was a child, growing up as Alice's best friend. Not every Cullen liked Bella, though. Alice's older brother Edward took it upon himself to make Bella's trip toward adulthood a nightmare. Everything changes when Edward is sent to prison for the murder of Bella's mother, Renee.

Special thanks to crazyj9girl for the top banner!

What happens when your past collides with your present and changes your future forever? Come read The Ties That Bind.

***BANNER BY READERGOOF.  THANK YOU DARLIN'***

Bella needed to change it up.  Moving to Savannah for a year after graduating from UGA seemed like a good plan.  However, bills needed to be paid, and money was tight.  Unfortunately, her playboy boss, Edward, doesn’t make her nights easy.  After reconnecting with old friends, a pattern of miscommunication about engagements and one night stands, and a stalker dead set on keeping the pair apart, Bella and Edward find themselves thrown together in a whirlwind of events that will shape both of their lives in ways they never imagined.  It's gonna get hot in the South!

Set in Savannah, Georgia.  OOC, AU-AH.  Canon couples.  Lots of lemons.  Some violence. 

Thanks to lindsayraye for her input and suggestion regarding my story summary!  Come visit us on the forum at  http://www.twilighted.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=9389&hilit=Laws+of+Attraction%2FGeorgia+on+My+Mind