Mia McCarthy is the class clown - always making people laugh, but secretly harboring a crush on her best friend's twin sister, Charlotte Vanderhorn. Charlotte is everything Mia thinks she's not: confident, popular, and way out of her league. As Mia's senior year unfolds, balancing friendships, school, and her role in the student newspaper, she begins to question if her feelings for Charlotte might not be so one-sided after all

Fake love on screen. Real tension off it. Luna Grey has rules: no co-stars, no mess, no vulnerability. Sam O'Connell is the industry's newest wildcard. They're supposed to play lovers in the biggest queer film of the year. But the glances linger too long. The almost-kisses feel too real. And Hollywood is always watching. It's only acting... until it isn't.

Sienna Mast is a tough girl and she always has been. But everybody has their breaking point. Sienna's abusive household becomes too much for her, so she seeks outside help in her uncle that lives across the country. She needs money and he has a lot of it, but she has to earn it. Her uncle promises Sienna money if she can complete the summer at a dance school. Since she's been dancing her whole life, she doesn't think it'll be too hard. However, she starts to rethink her decision when she realizes that her classmates are willing to do anything to beat the competition. With a bubbly roommate, a scary instructor, and a few jealous enemies, Sienna has to make it through the summer for her family's sake. What could possibly go wrong? Buy the paperback edition on Lulu! http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/writerbug44

Sometimes the person you've been waiting on... is the one you've been waiting for. "Maybe being seen isn't about who's looking, it's about who never looks away." Jamie Lawrence never planned to spend her twenties waiting tables for Hollywood's elite-especially not serving her biggest crush, Oscar-winning actress Catherine Lane. But one chaotic night, a paparazzi incident turns a polite routine into a secret connection neither of them saw coming. Now Catherine keeps finding excuses to visit the restaurant alone, and Jamie can't tell if she's imagining the sparks... or if the woman she's been waiting on might just be the one she's been waiting for.

Sometimes the best lessons aren't learned in class, they're felt in the heart. Riley Hale's life runs on caffeine, chaos, and cupcake batter. At twenty-eight, she's mastered the art of single motherhood, sarcasm, and pretending she's totally fine that her love life has been replaced by late-night cleaning montages and her eight-year-old's existential questions. Then one morning, a frosty stranger in a perfect beige coat walks into The Sweet Spot bakery and straight into Riley's list of "people I will never impress." After one spilled coffee and a mortifying apology later, Riley is convinced she'll never see the woman again. Until the next day, when she meets her daughter's new fifth-grade teacher... Miss Emerson Miller. What follows is a year of accidental flirtations, school-event disasters, and late-night bake-offs that blur the line between enemies, friends, and something sweeter. Because sometimes love doesn't show up when you plan it - it spills all over your shoes and dares you to start over. A slow-burn, small-town romantic comedy about second chances, messy mornings, and discovering that the best lessons aren't always taught in classrooms.

Ava Torres, captain of Stanford's women's soccer team, has one goal in mind for her senior year: win the championship and go out on top. She's focused, disciplined, and completely uninterested in distractions. Riley Bennett, captain of the women's basketball team, seems determined to be one. Teasing Ava has become her favorite pastime - harmless, playful... until it isn't. Because somewhere between the banter, the late-night talks, and the almost-kisses, Riley starts to realize the truth she's been trying to laugh off for years - she doesn't just like getting under Ava's skin. She wants her. And when lines start to blur between rivalry and something undeniably real, both girls have to decide whether to keep pretending... or risk everything for what's been building between them all along.

TRIGGER WARNING: Alcohol SMUT DETAILED- If you aren't comfortable please skip this is the only warning. Any other triggers you may think is in the book, i will add or continue as i go! Some people are all wrong for you on paper, and perfect in every way that matters. *Professor Catherine Whitmore has spent her entire life doing what was expected of her. The right schools. The right career. The right relationship, until it shattered quietly, leaving her guarded and certain she can read people better than she actually can. At 38, she doesn't do reckless. She doesn't do vulnerable. And she certainly doesn't do students. *Rowan Sinclair learned early that love means showing up, even when it's hard. After losing her mother at thirteen and watching her father struggle through grief, she became the steady one, raising her younger siblings, holding her family together. At 21, she's at Greystone University trying to build a life that's finally her own. She's been in love once before, but never like this. Never with someone who makes her feel seen and completely terrified at the same time. *When Rowan walks into Catherine's literature class, something shifts. Rowan sees through every wall Catherine has built- observant where Catherine is guarded, patient where Catherine is controlled, soft where Catherine is sharp. And Catherine? She's starting to realize Rowan isn't infatuated, isn't temporary, isn't another counterfeit. What starts as academic tension becomes something neither of them can ignore. But loving each other means risking everything- Catherine's career, her family's legacy, and the control she's fought so hard to maintain. A slow-burn, forbidden romance about healing, trust, and learning that love isn't about being smart enough to avoid pain- it's about being brave enough to try again.

She hired Dahlia to take care of her kids. Not to crawl under her skin, not to make her feel again, and most certainly not to fall in love with her. Scarlett Romano, mother of two. A woman carved from ice. Cold, powerful, ruthless, and engaged to a woman who looks perfect on paper. A decision made for the sake of legacy, image, and the future of her children. Love? That's a luxury she gave up a long time ago. But then, Dahlia shows up like a crack in her perfect foundation. She's soft where Scarlett isn't. Bright where Scarlett is guarded. Her children have learned to adore her. And Scarlett- despite herself, begins to crave her. To need her. But Dahlia? Dahlia is breaking. She's unraveling. Because she was never meant to belong here. She isn't who she claims to be. She didn't take the nanny job for the paycheck, or the kids. She took it because her father is holding her brother's life over her head. She's not a nanny, she's bait. A spy. A pawn in a game she doesn't want to play. Planted inside Scarlett's home to find weakness, to expose secrets, and burn it all from the inside out. What she didn't expect was the warmth of the children. She didn't expect them to start feeling like hers. She didn't expect Scarlett's rare, shattering softness. And she sure of hell didn't expect to fall in love with the woman she was sent to ruin. Now, Dahlia's caught between two impossible choices. Between the family she's beginning to love...and the family she's so desperate to save. And if the truth ever comes out. She won't just lose her job. It won't just break hearts. It'll ruin everything.

Amara Alonso is 22 years old and is in her final year studying English literature at NYU. She's smart, kind and gentle, she always has been. But she carries a quiet sadness that most don't see. After losing her mother and sister in a tragic car accident 8 months ago, she was left with an alcoholic father who she blames for their death. She promises herself to push through her last year of college but soon falls into a cycle- skipping classes, tear-stained eyes, and an empty stomach. Emilia Zayed is a 29 year old creative writing professor. Emilia is poised, intelligent and emotionally guarded. She keeps everyone at arm's length- students, colleges, friends, and especially family. She doesn't trust people and shows no intention to. She shows no interest in anybody around her, until a soft brown eyed girl enters her lecture with a look of hurt deep in her eyes that she can't seem to stop thinking about. Emilia notices Amara's writing first. There's something about her work-so raw, so aching, so lonely. It touches something in Emilia she thought she'd buried. Never has a student's piece of writing made her feel this way. They shouldn't get close. They can't get close. But they do. And it's slow, quiet, and deeply emotional. It's Amara showing up during Emilia's office hours not just to talk about writing but about life. It's Emilia realising Amara needs more than feedback-she needs someone who sees her. And it's Amara finally finding someone who doesn't leave. The two form an unspoken bond they can't explain. It's forbidden in the eyes of everybody else. But they can't help but feel softer around each other. Will they ever act on it? Will Amara's hurt or Emilia's closed offness prevent them from ever truly opening up and giving in?

One is hiding from the world. The other is trying to find her place in it. Ellie is perfectly content with her single flat and her Criminal Minds marathon, and a healthy dose of Tumblr nostalgia-until MoonPetal45 enters the chat. As the pressure of her final year mounts, this online stranger becomes her greatest support. Dr. Pembrose knows the rules. As a professor, she should have blocked the charming, accident-prone student the moment she recognised her. But in the quiet of her new home, the line between mentor and admirer is blurring, and Ellie's frequent run-ins with gravity are making the doctor fall a little too hard.