After spending a year living with her aunt in Montana, Nina Hopper comes back to Hawkins for one reason: Jim Hopper needs her. With Joyce, Eleven and the growing chaos around town, he needs someone to help hold his scattered family together. Nina expects awkward reunions, small-town gossip and too many late-night shifts at the station. What she doesn't expect is Billy Hargrove, loud, blunt, angry and absolutely determined to get under her skin. But Billy isn't what he seems. Nina catches glimpses of the boy beneath the bruises, the rage and the walls he built to survive. When the Upside Down begins bleeding into Hawkins again, she becomes an anchor Billy didn't know he needed and a target for the creatures hunting the town. As the world falls apart, Nina finds herself protecting the very boy she swore to stay away from. And Billy discovers the first person he's ever wanted to be good for. If Hawkins is hell, then maybe they're the only way out for each other.

No matter the cost. No matter the risk. Ruin the friendship. In which Lucy Henderson is forced to resist a curse and her feelings for her best friend, Steve Harrington. "It's basically the end of the world, can't you two just make out so we can move on?" Steve Harrington x Lucy Henderson

✶ in which leather-jacketed becky wheeler faces small-town secrets and big-time scares. BOOK IS CURRENTLY SET IN SEASON 1!!! © kwanilha︱2025 ﹙ stranger things: s1 to s5 ﹚ please do not copy my work!

Saving the kids? Easy. Saving their hearts? Not so much. IN WHICH Riley Henderson becomes the quiet glue holding the Henderson household and half of Hawkins together, even while she's secretly breaking. Between babysitting middle-school chaos, covering for her twin brother's questionable decisions, and pretending she doesn't look at Steve Harrington like he personally controls gravity, Riley somehow keeps everything from falling apart. But Steve is her brother's best friend. And he's dating Nancy Wheeler. So her feelings don't matter. They can't. Instead, Riley focuses on being the responsible one, the calm voice, the safe place, the one who shows up every single time. Even when she's exhausted. Even when she's lonely. Even when she's drowning in emotions no one else seems to notice. In Hawkins, monsters aren't the only things hiding in the dark. Sometimes it's your own heart. And Riley Henderson has become very, very good at keeping hers quiet. Welcome to The Babysitters Chronicles. Where growing up is hard, babysitting is harder... and family is something you choose whether you meant to or not.