I never thought I could feel this way. Hell, I used to wonder if I could feel anything at all. I was always so…. scared of the people around me. Never knowing when or how to say the right thing, I decided it was better not to get to close at all. I never meant to get close, but in this case… it was like… I had no choice. And though admitting fear is hard for me, the way being thrown into a pit of spiders would be hard for someone arachnid-phobic, what I’m really afraid of now is…. Him. There’s something terrifying about the way he smiles, the way that when he so much as tries to hold my hand it panics me. The way that even just remembering a brush of his skin makes my heart jump into my throat. As if I wasn’t messed up enough, I fell in love with a guy. I’m wasn’t gay. I can’t be gay. I’m not gay. I refuse to be gay. So how on earth do I make us work?

It's only once every 157 years that the Artemisian Star, a wondrous comet said to bring good luck, passes over the small town of White Oaks. Louis Wickham, a troubled teen traumatized by the untimely death of his parents and younger sister, has lived in nigh-isolation, keeping mostly to himself, his uncle, and his two best friends, Alex Miller and Dinah Evans. But with the realization that he only has a few more weeks left in his high school life, a bit of urging from his best friends, and the good luck that the comet promises to bring, Louis decides to triumph over his personal tragedies and reconnect with the friends he once abandoned before the time comes to sing their graduation hymn. Will he succeed, however, as a string of mysterious murders begin to transpire in the small town just after the comet passes? Murders that point to a close friend. Murders that stir memories Louis would rather forget. Murders that are far from the mundane...

Aliza is in a binding situation, literally! With her breasts constricted, wearing her brother's loose clothing, and dropping her voice to the lowest level, she's attending Ascham, an all boy's school! If that's not enough, throw in an extremely hot roommate, who suspects Aliza, aka Alex, of not being exactly what "he" appears to be and you have the start of a chaotic relationship-if you can even call it that.

While trying to get through high school, Carson has always noticed the same routine with Jesse - the school's 'player', as some like to say. He would leave countless girls crying, and he'd find someone else soon after. But when that someone else is Carson herself, she promises that she won't be the one crying when it's all over. [previously titled: Mr. Player, You've Just Been Played]