Jen Morse and Jake Miller had known each other their whole lives. Living across from each other on the shore of Jen's beloved Stone Lake, they grew up and fell in love. But when tragedy pulled Jake away from the lake, Jen lost him. Now, she is forced to relive the highs and lows of love while watching the man she loves marry another woman. Received an honorable mention in ONC 2021: A coming-of-age take that packs a punch through the nostalgia and sting of first love and absence of closure. This is where Nifer's and Jake's story should have ended. But some endings, as the author reminds us, are also beginnings. Prepare to ugly cry.

Sadie was just looking for a night of burritos and wallowing-not an accidental journey back to Shakespeare's London. But when she falls asleep watching Romeo and Juliet, she wakes up in the 1500s with a corset strangling her ribs and William Shakespeare himself standing in her doorway. Determined to fix the unrealistic love stories that shaped her romantic misadventures, Sadie decides to set the Bard straight-one plot twist at a time. But her meddling has consequences. As the lines between fiction and reality blur, Sadie must decide: is it worth breaking the world to rewrite the ending?

The fact that the planet is nothing more than a zombie-infested wasteland, a harsh and unforgiving place, doesn't mean that true love doesn't exist but is it deserved? Should a pallid-green monster be allowed to pine for the tender softness of a soulmate? Are monsters allowed any joy? Seth was not always a brain craving zombie. Once, he was a boy that fell in love with a girl. Nothing could tear them apart until they were both infected and separated by their own singular focus on food. Now, Seth is in desperate search of his lost love.

Delilah Taylor is prepared... always. But, when she is paired with Cale Benton for her junior capstone project, she has to learn to collaborate with her worst nightmare, a seemingly disorganized jock who otherwise wouldn't notice she was even on the same planet as him. How will they ever connect on a project about their community when they can barely sit at a table together? But as the months of their junior year pass by, they realize they have more in common with each other and their classmates than they ever thought.

People are like cards. They stack together precariously to form a house. One slip and they all fall down. Riley Sims has built her house of cards on stability without even realizing her boredom until she stumbles into a secret club and meets Jacob Rigby, perhaps the most unstable card in the pack. Captivated by him, she struggles to handle the impact one life can have on so many.