Oliver Green was not okay. He was bullied, unloved, unwanted, and worst of all, disgusting. At home he would suffer the cold, brash attitude of unloving parents. At school he would suffer the loneliness of being an outsider. The fear of being bullied. The shame of being so disgusting. One day Oliver snaps. While getting bullied things get taken a little too far. Oliver's clothes are torn away from him, revealing his ugly self to the world. He blacks out, hears the smashing of a window, screaming, when he comes to, he realizes he's in deep shit. Ending in his parents sending him away to the Institution for Disturbed Young Adults. Follow Oliver's journey of rediscovery and healing. Find out if Oliver gets the happy-ever-after-ending he has always read about.

Lea Cartwright can see dead people. She sees them in the street, at school and even in her little brother's day care. But when one appears in her bedroom begging her to solve his murder, Lea realises that there's much more to fear in high school than detention and mean girls. There's a hidden world beneath our own that calls Lea's name, one filled with love, betrayal and a voice in the darkness that wants to claim her for itself. If only things were as simple as worrying about the next homework deadline, right? *** Cover by @Vaneuxx

❝ Things are only as beautiful as you make them, Charlie. Including murder. ❞ It's the opening night of Burton Abbey's production of Romeo and Juliet and all is going smoothly - that is until the climactic death scene. Romeo takes a big gulp of the poison to be with his lover, except it really is poison and Elijah, who plays Romeo, is now dead. Charlie Monet, in charge of props, is the first suspect but soon the suspicion around her turns to worry as it seems she's the next target. Khaleel Rahim, an aspiring writer, is dying for a mystery to solve at his new school. When he sees Charlie sneaking around at night he thinks he's finally found something worth writing about. After discovering Charlie's ability to see visions of the past, Khaleel decides that they're the perfect pair to solve the mystery. With threatening notes, a quiet library and poison disguised as props; somebody in the school is blurring the lines between theatre and reality and the fast friends are about to discover that there's more to boarding school than just silly rumours. [2022 Watty's Shortlist]