"For a place called Paradise City, this island sucks. I don't think a single day has gone by that I haven't thought about stabbing the shit out of myself," he said. "Especially since I'm forced to live with you every second of every day." "Sh. I'm trying to science," I said, not looking up from my binoculars. "See anything interesting?" "Not really. My vision's a little clouded from the fog and rain clouds you constantly emit." He laughed. "You never fail to amuse me, Rea." "But you just said-" "I just said you make me want to stab myself. Interpret that however you'd like." With a love for whales and all life (besides maybe humans), Reagan Winebrenner had never even seen an ocean until her senior year in high school. But the moment she saw her first humpback, she knew she had found her passion and future career. A few years later and an invitation to Paradise City in hand, Reagan has her entire summer laid out for her, working on the project of a lifetime. But with five other students completing their projects as well, will they discover something worthwhile, or will they end up a psychology lesson for future generations? A New Adult Watty Winner 2019

{If Aphrodite was cast down from Olympus and become mortal just like Apollo. First book in the Trials of Aphrodite trilogy.} How do you punish a goddess? By making her mortal. Aphrodite played a trick on Zeus, just for a little bit of fun. But unfortunately for the goddess of love and beauty, the king of the gods does not forgive easily. Perhaps she went a little too far . . . She wakes up in California, weak and disoriented. She finds herself alone in front of a familiar house, with fragmented memories and scattered thoughts. Snow blankets the ground, and the air is crisp and cold. She discovers that her powers are gone, and she's utterly . . . mortal. A sixteen-year-old mortal, named Ren Amore. She can't just sit there in the cold freezing to death, so she turns to the one person that might help her out in her dire state: Piper McLean.

Before she ran away from home, Grace Miller had been abused, beaten, and hurt in more ways than one by the people who are supposed to give her the love she deserved. Stranded in a little town, Grace had to face a bigger problem after she had been offered a home by the Brian's--there was life inside of her, and she felt more lost than she ever had before. ----- #14 in Christianity || 11/07/19 ----- summary: @light-years title: @Arabella