❝You know, sometimes starting over isn't just an option. Sometimes it's your only option.❞ Taylor's been the O'Donnells' best-kept secret for the entire seventeen years of her existence. And she's fed up with it. So when the opportunity presents itself for her to run away, she seizes it without a second thought-and drives the seven hours it takes to get to her cousin Devon's apartment in California. But there's one incredibly unanticipated problem in Taylor's grand plan: Derek Quinn. But you can't keep running away from your past. It's bound to catch up to you eventually. [ this book is currently being edited chapter by chapter ] [ adorable cover made by @ketterdams ]

It starts off in the present. She boards a flight to New York hoping for a better future where she could forget everything. Only that never happened. She gets kidnapped and while she's stuck at the kidnappers house. She begins to remember the past. The reason why she was here in the first place. Everything happens for a reason, is there a reason why this happened to her? ~ This is a story of Lennon and how she learnt that everything happens for a reason.

With his pride and her prejudice, what could possibly go wrong? When the arrogant Blake Hansen steals Addie Preston's promotion at the library, he pretty much rubs her nose in it. But Addie, who dreams of being a full-fledged librarian, decides to stick it out. She loves surrounding herself with books and keeping her father's memory alive in the building where they spent so much time together. Soon, Addie learns that her beloved library will be torn down to make room for a larger facility, and she has to make a choice. Fight, or let go? To complicate things, she finds herself attracted to Blake, who is engaged to someone else. Will Blake and Addie ever resolve their differences? This is a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice, with hints of the other Jane Austen books as well.

Clara Miller isn't quite your average 15 year old girl. After meeting an attractive boy at her local convenience store, and faking a flat tire just to be with him longer, her whole world spins in the other direction in the blink of an eye. Then there's Jason McCann, yet another 15 year old teenager none like anyone in the whole country. He's a bomb creator. After being told all of his life by Ralph, his substitute brother after both his parents' and Alex's death, never to fall in love, he didn't really know what love was. That is, until he met a beautiful girl at the store that he couldn't help but fall head over heels for. Can these two combine together, even with their completely different lifestyles, and fight for their love after having doubts that love even exists?