"Being reunited with your childhood best friend after eight years apart? Sounds like a heart-warming story. Finding out that said best friend is now a complete jerk who's determined to make your life hell? Not so much." Georgie and Connor were once inseparable. Best friends from birth, they did everything together - well, that was until Connor's dad got a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity and the family was forced to relocate to New York. At age sixteen, Georgie's life is totally different - her main goal being to keep her head down and escape the brutalities of high school with as little emotional scarring as possible. Balancing school, work and her dwindling social life is enough of a challenge, but it's about to get a bit more complicated when her conceited ex-best friend gets thrown into the mix. Maybe friendship should come with an instruction booklet.

Nerdy Dakota Evans makes the biggest mistake of her life by falling in love with her best friend, Aaron Ford. Despite coming from entirely different cliques in school, will their relationship have a chance? *** In a high school where everyone belongs to cliques, nerdy and boyish Dakota Evans' friendship with basketball jock, Aaron Ford, becomes a big issue. Aaron's highly protective of Dakota and doesn't realize that she's in love with him. With their friendship eventually going on the rocks, will Aaron finally realize his true feelings for Dakota before it's too late? [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]]

In the 1980s, life was tough for 16-year-old Greg Wanders. Greg lived in a quiet part of Chicago, Illinois, but he's always dreamed of going to New York and making a name for himself. But he and his best friend Patrick together go through whatever life has to offer, and life is offering up a lot; especially offering the captain of the Football team Jack Blake as their bully. But one of the most wonderful gift that Greg thinks life gave him was the fine Mia Cunningham. Will he go through life in one piece...or in as few pieces as possible, that is? Or will he be end up like his uncle Fred sitting in Times Square begging for money?