Old habits die screaming ∕ ORIGINAL

To Leith Dyer, life is best kept in lists, edits, and carefully placed boundaries. As a columnist at Marigold, she's built a career out of writing low-stakes lifestyle pieces while quietly keeping her own awkward, clumsy life safely out of reach. Her new assignment changes that: nine first dates, documented in real time for one of the most-read features on the site. According to her boss Irene, finally something with stakes. Leith agrees to the experiment with one rule: she only goes on the dates as research. But in a workplace where everything becomes content and every connection has an audience, even distance is hard to maintain. Especially when Callum, her boss's quietly indispensable cousin, keeps showing up in the margins, becoming the one variable she never agreed to include. As the nine dates unfold, Leith starts noticing a pattern she can't edit out: the more she writes about connection, the less certain she is about the version she's performing and the one she actually wants. And when readers begin to notice Callum too, turning him into a story of their own, the line between author and subject begins to blur in ways she can't control. A contemporary workplace romance about visibility, authorship, and the uncomfortable truth that some stories don't stay within the boundaries you set for them.

[BOOK THREE] Ethan Reed has always been the golden boy. The favorite son, the captain of the volleyball team. Perfect. He has to be perfect. But after everything, Ethan finds himself crippled by the pressure of it all. It builds and it builds all the way to a breaking point, so eventually, when Ethan finally cracks under the pressure, no one is surprised. What is surprising however, is the boy that arrives to pick up the pieces. When Ethan struggles to hold it together over the road to the finals, June is there, and together, with him, his friends, and a twin brother desperately trying to heal their broken family, Ethan starts to finally feel like there might be hope after all. [NOTE - this is the THIRD book in the head over heels trilogy. it isn't a stand alone, read the others first!]

Gwyneth Ha tries to leave behind Hong Kong and the only girl she's ever kissed in the city that holds her heart. Coming home ten years later is never part of the plan. Neither is seeing Yannis Fong again-with a wedding ring on her finger.

If the sea can meet the sky agreeably at the horizon, how much harder can it truly be for feathers and fins? Is the water not drawn naturally to the shore? Does the sun not bend down to kiss the waves at the end of the day?

Reese Hickman has no plans for the summer but to relax while reading, sit poolside, and work on her junk journal. But between an ex-bestfriend and an ex-boyfriend reappearing in her life, being relaxed seems impossible. Forced to work beside the two people who walked out of her life, Reese's summer is turned upside down as she learns more about the friend she thought she knew like a sister and the guy who broke her heart.

Enemies to colleagues to neighbors to lov - absolutely not. Absolutely. Not. ▬▬▬▬▬▬ Athena Rivera is a bedside nurse. Prejudiced against rich, privileged, and devilishly attractive guys, especially the one she's known half her life and sworn to hate ever since. Ivo Valerio is a surgical resident. Too prideful to ever admit nursing a crush, especially on someone he spent half his life pretending not to notice. But neither pride nor prejudice is enough to keep them apart, especially when they're assigned to work on the same floor of the same hospital - and just when she least expects it, he moves into the same apartment building, right next door. With chaotic night shifts where they're forced to rely on each other, quiet morning walks they keep accidentally taking together, and only a paper-thin wall left between them at home - the truth they've been refusing to name is running out of places to hide. And the closer it gets . . . the more they have to lose.

Is there a line that I could just go cross? / ORIGINAL

While seventeen year old Caroline Sebas' parents are working out their divorce, she travels from North Carolina to Boca Raton, Florida for the summer, where she stays with her Aunt Kara. Caroline plans on holing up on the shore all summer with a good book, sure she'll be unable to make any friends because of the fact that she is practically a social repellent. This is until Caroline meets the girl next door, Paige Hawthorne, who has a gorgeous older brother, Dean. When Dean and Caroline adjust to each other, they get a little too comfortable and make one little slip up that jeopardizes the entire summer, causing them each to keep a secret from Paige and their other friends.

"I'll pay to have you visit every US show on the tour." "Fine, but then we'll need to set some ground rules."