"One of my favorite tropes is someone who believes they're hard to love and someone who loves them like it's breathing." TW: Mentions of suicide and abuse Forest Gray is what everyone would describe as a golden boy; perfect grades, the star of the football team, and a damn good friend. He is rich and good looking; he has it all. Except the one thing he's wanted his whole life, his parents love and acceptance. They are never home, yet they hold a protective barrier around him no matter what. They even own the school he goes to. Forest is to do and be who they say, and he's never been one to disobey or displease anyone, except for when he falls in love with the one boy who's able to break his parents spell. Atlas Hart is different from most people, because most people don't skip school and disappear for days or even weeks at a time. But most people don't have his intense emotions and outbursts of anger, or a broken family, or looked at as the outcast of the school. When Forest meets Atlas, he can't believe he's never noticed someone so perfect for him, and Atlas just can't believe someone like Forest is even talking to him. They fall helplessly in love, creating a bump in the plan Forest's parents laid out for his life before he was even born. Follows the struggles of falling in love with someone you're not supposed to and coming to terms with it while facing obstacles like family and friendship complications in which the characters have to overcome.

[LGBTQ+ Romance] #1 in teenage 1/10/22 #2 in teenagers 1/ 18/22 #2 in healer 1/10/2022 #3 in healer 1/14/2022 #7 in gay 1/12/2022 Presley Flint was thirteen when his mother died. From that point on, his life seemed to be turned upside down. At seventeen years old he's living with an alcoholic and abusive stepfather who has no regard for anybody but himself. Everyday, Presley is told that he is a waste of perfectly good air and day after day, he starts to believe it. He feels that school is his only refuge, but will that change when he's thrown a wicked curve ball and gets kidnapped by a gang? Will he help the gang? And if he does, will he even survive it? Nathan Pierce is next in line to take his father's place as gang leader of the Creeds. Everyday, he works hard to keep his gang at the top of the food chain. He never stops. He'll sleep when he's dead. In order to make his gang stronger, he needs young and frail Presley to join his gang and become the miracle that they desperately need. The only problem with having Presley is that everyone else wants him too, especially their rival gang called the K Blades. The K Blades want a chance to have a secret weapon and become as indestructible as the Creeds. For both of them, at every turn, there is trouble. Little do they know that to solve their problems, the two boys need each other in more ways than one. "I wasn't superhuman, but for him, I'd play God." -Nathan Pierce ••••••••••••••••••• -Slow burn novel -LGBTQ -Mentions of violence -Completed Published 1/28/2021 Vote, comment and follow if you enjoy this story! HIGHEST RANKINGS #1 in Healer #1 in Teenage 1/9/2022 # 1 in Gang member # 3 in Teenagers # 42 in Emotion #34 in slowburn EDITED