Olivia Harris has one dream: to become a professional photographer. She’s determined and even went out of her way to intern at a well known photography company. Olivia knows that doing so may give her an opportunity to pursue her dream a step further. What she doesn't know is that, sometimes, expectations don't go as expected. When her dream takes a detour, Olivia finds herself running out of time since she’s graduating high school in less than five months. Her situation doesn’t get better when she has a bitter encounter with her locker buddy she has never spoken to. The two are like fire and ice. But, doesn’t heat have the ability to melt the frost? Olivia claims she will never spare a breath with her locker buddy ever again, yet somehow, she ends up saving him. And the more time Olivia spends with her locker buddy, the more she wants to discover what his compositions are all about.

Wren Martin is socially awkward. She blocks off herself to the world, hiding behind her favorite hoodie. All she wants to do is keep a low profile, and graduate well enough to qualify for a college scholarship. But then a babysitting job leads her to cross paths with Asher Reed, Eastview Highʼs notorious athlete. When a field injury kickstarts his senior year, heʼs turning his free time and attention to Wren. And maybe she might not want to be invisible after all. ***** [Watty's Collector's Edition Winner] [TFA Runaway Prize Winner] [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Santoro

"If you can't find a reason to smile, then I'll become your reason." . Jenn is a natural beauty, whose family broke apart when she was nine when her father died. From then on, nothing she ever did brought a real smile to her lips except for the rare sightings due to Disney and puns. When Jeremy moves to the lonely town in hopes of living peacefully despite having to fly from and to California, he is immediately interested. At the age of ten, he promised to make her smile for thirty days. The promise got an eye roll and was long forgotten, but it still exsists-at least in Jeremy's mind. And at the age of seventeen and eighteen, the promise was finally being brought to life. . Jenn is cold and heartless following the death of her favorite parent, her father. Jeremy is the childhood friend who is quite the opposite and is trying to thaw Jenn's heart. And he already has a plan.

lift a corner of your mouth. then the other one.

smile till' your cheeks get six packs.

"My Mama hates me. She's jealous of me. She hates me. She hates me." Read at your own caution. This is a dark story.

Niada Athusa is a 16 year old girl who fortnightly dreams of flying, followed by falling. It is not the sort of dreams you might expect... She does not fly on a plane but on the Wings of Athusa. She is taken by the SLNC to train how to control her mind. It is a place hidden from the human world; a place riddled with fear. She must take a penultimate test to prove that she is worthy of a place at Angexo- or else be consumed by her fears eternally. • One of the 2017 winners of the Teen Fiction Awards by youngadultreads - Thank you so much again!

Cigarettes, lilac skies and poetry at 3am: sixteen-year-old Pietro ''Pit'' Rossi knows the adrenaline of feeling empty and infinite at the same time. With the reputation of a goofy idiot who doesn't care about anything at all, getting held back at school doesn't seem like a problem. But it is. Because Pit cares about everything, and he always cares too much. [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

{ effervescence; n.: bubbles in a liquid } a whole world of blue and green above them as they spoke the things they never said which came out in bubbles and quickly disappeared in the water; up, up, up, while their lungs filled with water - up, down, floating - and they d r o w n e d | Teen Fiction Awards Winner in the Category Writing |