virtues are for fools, darling.

Charlie Holloway has great friends, good grades, a steady part-time job he actually likes, and athletic ability that makes him a star in two sports, but recently it's all felt rather hollow. However, when childhood friend Theo Broussard comes back into his life, Charlie is shaken out of a years-long daze that has left him coasting through his teenage years. Theo just happening to be the star player for his school's biggest rival and his first crush only complicates matters further. When things get difficult, Charlie finds himself forced to choose between his current life following the path of least resistance or a harder but possibly more fulfilling one. "Only to feel this fully, this entire, the way snow touched bare skin & is suddenly, no longer snow" -Ocean Vuong, "Devotion" from Night Sky with Exit Wounds [Re-edited 4/18/20]

the king of the richmond reunites with the prince of crime.

When a paper airplane, containing a confession of feelings for him, hits the back of Zion's head, his whole school year is suddenly turned into a quest to find his secret admirer. But narrowing the field down might be harder then Zion could ever have expected, and the more letters he receives, the more he starts to develop feelings of his own.

Andrew is a spoiled only child who attends Whitewater Preparatory School with his girlfriend Keanu. His parents focus all their attention on their one an only son trying their best to make him perfect. Leo is a rebellious misfit who attends a local high school despite having enough money to attend Whitewater with his sister Keanu. Keanu forces her brother Leo and boyfriend Andrew to spend more time together as their families become closer in hopes that it'll straighten Leo out. However, the opposite seems to happen. - Started: January 30, 2019 Finished: August 28, 2019

"There's a thin line between love and hate" - Reid Thompson had been struggling for years to find something to motivate him. That's till he moved to Lincoln where he joined the soccer team with a cute but moody, star player. Ansel Beck was just trying to make his parents proud and be the best at everything. Unfortunately, the adorable new boy threatened his spot as captain. But that was just the beginning. Some how everything just got even messier and Reid endured a bad accident that made coping so much harder. Started: July 6, 2019 Finished:

Milo Park is a serial romantic with an addiction to online dating. Lee Asano is the barista stuck taking the orders of every date Milo reels in. It wouldn't be an issue if Milo wasn't such a hot topic-star running back for the USFC football team as a freshmen, member of the most iconic fraternity at USFC, and general campus heartthrob. When Milo convinces Lee to be his gym buddy, it sounds and feels like the friend zone. But who knew the #GymLife was so gay anyway? Certainly not Lee.

A man observes the routine occurrence of another man from his window. ~ManxMan~ - - - A/N: I do not own the picture in the cover. All rights to the original owner.

Nic was almost positive he had never encountered a more perfect, beautiful, inspiring stranger before this sudden walk-by. They had the sort of presence that knocked the air out of him, the words out of his mouth, and so... he never learned the name of said stranger. But when his accidental "WANTED" signs catch the notice of his peers, he's steered in the direction that's closer fit to the path his future muse leads. Kieran is... a mystery. Maybe it's his aloofness that makes him so broodingly calm. Whatever the case, Nic becomes determined to draw that idiot's face into oblivion, even if there's little chance of a romance happening between them. But sometimes showing appreciation for the person you love happens to be from afar, and with a pencil and paper in hand.

A lot has changed since Kiri has left to go back home, and Asher finds himself struggling to move on. Tired of battling his demons he secludes himself from everyone else, promising to never let someone get that close again. Not finding peace at home, Kiri makes the sudden decision to come back and spend the summer with his dad - unaware that he is signing himself up for a lot more trouble than he has already been through. | Sequel to Misfits, not a stand-alone book |