𝒟𝒶𝓌𝓈𝑜𝓃' 𝓈 𝒞𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓀 𝓂𝑒𝑒𝓉𝓈 𝒪𝓃𝑒 𝒯𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝐻𝒾𝓁𝓁... Book One 𓂃𓈒𓍼ོ𓂃𓈒 One town. One last summer. They made promises by the creek, but senior year has other plans. Best friends. Broken hearts. One last chance to say what matters. Senior year is the season of almosts- first loves, last nights, and the end of everything they thought would last forever. In 2014, Anchorhead Bay was a sleepy coastal town where Livvie Hollis hid her feelings behind sarcasm, spiral notebooks, and Friday movie nights with her best friend, Ash Vale-the quiet storm with grease on his hands and the weight of the world on his shoulders. He was the kind of boy who rebuilt engines to avoid rebuilding himself, and he still saw her as the girl across the creek. They grew up by the water, making pacts under the stars and promises they were too young to keep. It's where Liv met Siverra-Ash's punk, ride-or-die sister-and Kit Fel, part chaos, part vintage-with a surfboard named Farrah and an orange '76 VW van named Betsy. The glue that kept them all afloat. But now senior year has arrived. Ash is thinking about enlisting, and Elara Crane-his childhood crush-has returned to town, stirring up everything Livvie's tried to keep buried. Tides shift and lifelong friendships are tested. Some hearts drift, even when they start at the same shore. Livvie soon learns that growing up means learning to let go-because real life doesn't wait for rewrites.

Innerhalb von 6 Wochen kann viel passieren. In Linas 6 Wochen änderte sich alles. In den Sommerferien verlor Lina ihren restlichen Babyspeck, entdeckte Make-Up, fand ihre Weiblichkeit, bändigte ihre Haare, wurde ihre gehasste Zahnspange los und plötzlich erkannte sie sich im Spiegel nicht mehr wieder. Und was noch viel besser war: Selbst ihre Mitschüler, die ihr bis dahin das Leben zur Hölle gemacht hatten, erkannten sie nicht mehr. Nicht einmal ihr Peiniger Jona Fitz, der sie stets auf das Widerlichste zu erniedrigen wusste. Plötzlich sieht er in ihr nur noch die neue Schülerin, die er ganz offensichtlich auch noch ziemlich attraktiv findet. Lina sieht darin ihre Chance Rache zu nehmen. Rache für all das Leid und all die Qual, die er ihr zugefügt hatte. Was zu Beginn noch gut funktioniert, scheitert jedoch zunehmend an den Gefühlen, die sie für Jona wider Willen entwickelt. **Triggerwarnung: Diese Geschichte behandelt das Thema Essstörung und Mobbing ** Nummer gegen Kummer: 116 111 https://www.nummergegenkummer.de/kinder-und-jugendberatung/kinder-und-jugendtelefon/

In a city where a single flower is worth more than a man's life, some secrets are deadly enough to kill for. Amsterdam, 1637. At the height of the insane Tulip Mania, a group of the city's wealthiest speculators gather on a lavish barge, De Vergulde Lelie (the Gilded Lily), for a secret auction. The prize: the Semper Augustus, a tulip bulb so rare it could buy a palace. But before the first bid is cast, the night is shattered by a scream. The host, a ruthless and widely hated speculator, is found murdered. The priceless bulb is gone. Trapped on the barge by the frozen canals, a handful of suspects are locked in a cage of opulence and fear: the bitter rival on the brink of ruin, the indebted English lord, and the vengeful farmer who claims the bulb was stolen from him first. The city watch sees a simple case of greed. But they're not looking closely enough. Signor Alvise Grimaldi, a disgraced Venetian glassmaker living in exile, sees what the others miss. He's not a detective; he's an artist with an eye for fatal flaws. While everyone else is blinded by the missing bulb, Grimaldi is drawn to the real heart of the crime: the silent, stolen glances between the victim's beautiful, trapped wife, Katarina, and the brilliant, obsessive painter, Frans van Loo. Their forbidden love is a secret far more dangerous than any financial debt. As Grimaldi peels back the layers of deception, he realizes the murder wasn't a simple robbery. It was a crime of passion, a desperate act disguised to look like greed. Now, he's in a silent duel with a killer who is just as much an artist of deception as Grimaldi is of glass. In a world gone mad with speculation, can a broken artist expose a truth hidden in a single drop of paint before the ice thaws and a devastating secret sinks them all?