*Wattys 2018 Winner / Hidden Gems* CREATE YOUR OWN MR. RIGHT Weeks before Valentine's, seventeen-year-old Kate Lapuz goes through her first ever breakup, but soon she stumbles upon a mysterious new app called My Dream Boyfriend, an AI chatbot that has the ability to understand human feelings. Casually, she participates in the app's trial run but finds herself immersed in the empathic conversations with her customizable virtual boyfriend, Ecto. In a society both connected and alienated by technology, Kate suspects an actual secret admirer is behind Ecto. Could it be the work of the techie student council president Dion or has Kate really found her soulmate in bits of computer code? She decides to get to the bottom of the cutting-edge app. Her search for Ecto's real identity leads Kate to prom, where absolute knowledge comes with a very steep price.

FEATURED ON WATTPAD FRESH READS 21/07 Asha has watched pretty much every rom-com to ever exist and read every romance novel to have ever set foot in the world of literature- in fact, she's even written some successful teen romance novels of her own on Wattpad, which practically makes her an expert. So, how hard could it be for someone who essentially has a Ph.D. in the 'studies of luurve' to make the stereotypical school player, Kai Watson, fall head over heels in love with her? And with the help of her best friend Mason, it should be a walk in the park. Except, it's not. Heck, it's more like a crawl in the Sahara desert. It doesn't take Asha long at all to realise that love couldn't be more different from what she had envisaged in her head and in just a few months she learns more about love, in all its forms than she could have ever imagined. [amazing cover by GrimTragedies]