Setting his lawn on fire wasn't exactly how Garrett Grimaldi planned to start talking to his best friend's neighbor, Silas. But that's exactly what happens when a fun experiment goes horribly wrong, launching Garrett's summer off to a hot start. Growing unease with his boyfriend, looming responsibilities of adulthood...
Youngbin Lee has been the target of school bullying for long enough, and it has started to chip away his last bit of confidence. But during a fateful meeting with Alex Hill, one of the most notorious and unruly students, Youngbin is offered help; Alex could protect him from bullies tormenting him, if Youngbin returned...
Israel Taylor had a pretty interesting and conflicting junior year; learning to love never seemed so hard but just when he believes it has happened, he lost it all at the same time. With his first love- Sky - gone, Israel tries to cope with it and even dances around the idea of moving on. After all Lou Martin remains...
[bxb, gxg] When Reid Edwards is shoved into a locker by his bully on the last day of high school, 1970, he certainly doesn't expect to tumble straight into a room containing the high school's three oddballs. What ensues is a carefree summer full of drinking, dreaming, and watching the stars. But as Reid grows closer t...
COMPLETED [boyxboy] After his religious mother kicks him out for being gay, Elijah Ellis moves in with his father, where his step-mother, step-brother, and half-sister also welcome him. Elijah aspires to continue doing what he loves and play hockey for his new school, but his past hookup with the closeted hockey capt...
Taite Jefferson certainly did not expect the world's biggest superstar to be sitting on his living room couch when he woke up the day after his high school graduation. He didn't expect to like him, either. Taite Jefferson was very, very wrong.
[BoyxBoy Romance] Freshman, sophomore, and junior year. Those are the years that Evan and Christian have known each other. Those are the years that they have hated each other. Or maybe not. ~ ~ ~ Evan Reed expects his senior year to be like a...
"And as I looked down at the sleeping body beside me... My chest started to feel all fuzzy. I reached down, pushing back a lock of his messy, crazy pitch black hair. I let my fingers linger and traced them down his sharp jaw, to the curve of his chin and I ran my thumb over those parted rosy, plump lips. His wild eyes...
Elliot Brushwood has no friends at school, and no friends at home either, coming in second to his brother Colby despite being older, unable to focus in school, bullied and side-lined, and too emotional to know how to fight back, it seems as though everything is out of his control. Arran King is the opposite, effortles...
An outgoing country boy. A wallflower jock. And a completely off-limits relationship. ** Aspiring artist Kade Turner is the new kid at school, imported into the big city from countryside town Greensboro. With his accent and his dad being the insanely popular coach of the varsity football team, Kade had no hopes of goi...
Jude's world hasn't made sense since Mikey, a boy with a skewed sense of reality, showed up two years ago. When a runaway named Zion comes into their lives, things are about to get a lot weirder.
ROMANCE/SUSPENSE Max is about to start a new part-time job in a restaurant-a fried chicken shop, to be exact. It's here that he will soon meet Tayce, the ever-smiling optimist who manages to see the good in everything and everyone around him. Tayce, full of enthusiasm for his job and love for his boyfriend Frank, see...
Riches aren't everyone's taste and that's the case of Zeus Darcanius. Zeus Darcanius; rich, powerful and influential hasn't always been the confident strong-headed man he is. A pained past refusing to fade away continually hunts him, memories continually weighing down his heart making it heavy. The taste for riches on...
ROMANCE / TEEN Jasper Jones is trapped in a bewildering whirlwind of emotions, caught in a dark place where anger and confusion reign. His future hangs by a thread as he faces the very real threat of expulsion from school. In a bid to reclaim some semblance of stability, he's sent to his uncle's sprawling farm, a star...
SCIENCE-FANTASY/ ROMANCE The new kid had an aura that set him apart from everyone Joe had ever encountered. It was as if he were a puzzle piece that didn't quite fit, yet he seemed passionately determined to carve out his place in the crowd. With his brightly colored hair that swayed in defiance of the usual norms and...
To his peers, Liam Kingsley has it all-girls, good looks, loving parents, and a best friend that'll fight for him until the death. Little does the school know that Liam's faking it. Faking it all. Fearing the loss of everything he's worked so hard to achieve, Liam forces himself to constantly keep up the act of a char...
Caleb is an artist, he's a master in every possible medium, and nothing less was expected from him as a Wilson, an extended family of high aspiring artists. Caleb enjoys creating art, but he doesn't enjoy the pressure that comes with it, and the expectations his parents weigh on him. Creating art slowly became a chor...
Benjamin has freckles. Thijmen has a knife. Their one thing in common? Having to live under the same roof. Every year, as part of a school program, a "troubled teen" is taken by a wealthy family in hopes to help him reform. This is what brought Thijmen, a Dutch delinquent, into the Emsworth residence. (Standalone | Co...
[Previously feautured Noteworthy Novel & Staff Pick on Tapas.io!] Frey Sanders isn't a shy guy. He is a lot of things - obnoxiously loud, over-confident, spoiled - but shy was never even in the list of words to describe him. He has enough confidence to have lots of friends, not considered to be the most popular in sch...
Jesse's entire life is a charade. Everything he does, he does to hide the truth. His girlfriend? Fake. His hair colour? Fake. His love for soccer? Fake. His life? Fake, fake, fake. But after years of pretending, people simply believe everything he tells them. Why would they think something wasn't right when Jesse kept...
[Twice feautured Noteworthy Novel & Staff Pick on Tapas!] [Full version available in April] Looking at sixteen-year-old Neo Favre, there isn't anything to point out that would explain him being heavily bullied. He's almost just like any other teenager attending South Haven Highschool. Except one thing; Neo suffers fro...
It was a gloomy town, sure, but Isaac didn't think much of it. He laughed off the myths, dismissed the graveyard, and pushed away his thoughts of anything supernatural. He was pretty damn stupid to do that, though. (BoyxBoy, Vampires)
Lightfall, built on corpses of shadows. When a war between two factions, the Lightwielders and the Shadowcasters, breaks out in Lightfall, only one emerges victorious leading hundreds to hide in the underbelly of the city. Surviving in filth and thriving lawlessly. One group rises above them all, The Hawks. Aster's...
Adam Graham knew two things. One: he had no interest in dating or hooking up with anyone. Two: Reid Sanchez was very pretty. Adam had always been a certain way. He found interest in nobody and he liked that. He'd seen the effort and drama that came from relationships and he knew it wasn't worth forcing himself thro...
"You can't like him, you just can't!" "I know. It's wrong, but it's how I feel and I can't freaking control that." We've all heard the phrase 'The heart wants what it wants' or 'You can't control how you feel', and according to Nate, his life is just an example of that. (#5 General Fiction)
Lawson is bad at calculus. Sean, a mathematics education major, is more than willing to help.
Elliot Spellman wanted to live; he wanted to feel the rush everyone else did. He was tired of being just some kid in the back of the class who went home every night to study in his bedroom. That was how he found himself in an alley, dealing marijuana. He wanted this, he needed this. Not marijuana, but friends, a grou...
Sometimes, Neil Graham doesn't hate Tyler Beckett. Sometimes, Neil Graham isn't scared of his own home. Sometimes, Neil Graham can be a bit of a walking contradiction. And sometimes, Neil Graham doesn't think his father's murderer will ever be found. -x-x-x- saturnine--- : "...this book isn't just a bxb and [is] so...
Forced to share his bed with an attractive stranger, Ash Jamieson suddenly finds himself confronted with feelings he thought he'd repressed. ***** Riddled with adolescent angst, lavished with profanity, and adorned with more cheese than your favouri...
Book 1 : The Fated Chronicles Levi Calderon. The eldest child to the alphas of the number one werewolf pack in the world, The Dark Moon Pack. Though adopted, he's never once felt unloved or lower than his other siblings. He's grown up with nothing but a loving family in a wonderful pack. But he still feels empty...