Twelve of the most dynamic and engaging YA authors writing today team up for this one-of-a-kind collection of he said/she said stories - he tells it from the guy's point of view and she tells it from the girl's. These stories of love and heartbreak teach us that relationships become complicated because there are two sides to every story. Here are Wanda and John's stories.

BOOK #1 [A Watty Finalist & Newly Edited!] The Swarm - thought to have originated from biological warfare, arrived, it killed and left millions dead in its wake and still has not been eradicated as it makes its way around the world. A cure is not possible. Irissa Maclin, a reclusive and hostile girl from a desert region that borders the capitol Arid, is on the verge of turning seventeen. Girls of this age from the surrounding regions are selected at random for surrogacy. They will be taken to PURE, a lab to help harbor Seraphim - genetically perfect embryos. If she is to be sent away, can the turmoil deep within her be mended by a young man from a neighboring region - a forbidden attraction that can change everything? Secrets, betrayals, and love pave the path for Irissa. Will she choose her own fate, or succumb to the science that promises a brighter future?

Enter the world of Iris Mai. She can be considered a bit peculiar... Odd, different, puzzling. No one quite understands her, not even Robot Boy, and especially not Moth. She doesn't ask for much, only happiness, but she has that. She doesn't have a doubt in her mind that she can maintain that without anyone's help. Suddenly, obstacles are thrown at Iris that she never expected. Iris is forced to face- or ignore- life, death, love, and hate in ways almost as unique as herself.

Anne seems to have it all - at only twenty-five, she's a freelance theatre critic and married to Aaron Harrington, a wealthy businessman one year her junior. But after two years of marriage, the couple realizes something - they can't have children. What ensues is a visit to Dr. Graeme, the doctor at the country's most highly-acclaimed fertility clinic. But what happens when Anne starts to develop feelings for Dr. Graeme that might put her marriage - and her chances of having a baby - on the line?

Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer and an even better singer, she is the perfect lover for any man. Perfect, that is, except for her personality - the one thing you can't engineer.

19 year-old Sophie Gallagher was, in the greatest of senses, ordianary. Nothing interesting has ever happened to her, and she wasn't all that bothered by it. Well, this all changes when she meets a strange young man. Casper Jones, was not just a strange young man. He was a brilliant, mind-boggling, time-travelling, swash-buckling, slightly dangerous young man. And with him, anything was possible. With him, the whole universe was literally in the palm of her hand. And she liked it.

14-year-old nerds are still as crude as ever, in spite of the apocalypse. Having solved the equations relating matter, time, and energy, what of all things do they decide to construct?

Welcome to Ethernet. Welcome to the Ether: Digital glory and escape from the norm. You do not join Ethernet. The Ether joins you. Follow the rules and the Ether will become you. Break the rules and the Ether will destroy you. Invitation Only.