What happens when you meet someone on the worst night of their life? When they're standing on the edge of a bridge and you're the only one who sees? How does a story like that begin? The story of two people who meet when everything's already falling apart. After her twin sister's death, Norah Bishop learns how to look whole - polished, composed, untouchable. She carries a secret that feels heavier than grief and a guilt she mistakes for balance. If something was taken, something must be paid. Daniel Cohen has been quiet his whole life. Not because he has nothing to say, but because no one ever listened. Not when it mattered. He doesn't believe in fate. He believes in control. In endurance. In loving one person so steadily it becomes instinct. They aren't supposed to collide. But from the moment they do, something ancient and unspoken refuses to let go - in glances across classrooms, in banters, in conversations that stretch past midnight, in touches that feel like recognition rather than discovery. As old wounds surface and truths threaten to unravel everything, Norah must decide whether she will keep living like punishment - or choose a love that feels terrifyingly alive. This is a story about grief that lingers. About desire that burns through fear. About two people who don't promise to save each other - only to stay. -------- [Book 1] in the Norah & Daniel Universe

Nora is the girl who never says no. To a drink, a dare, a hand on her thigh. She laughs when she should flinch, stays quiet when she should scream, and calls it strength. But behind the bravado is a trail of wreckage: nights she can't quite remember and some she'll never forget. What begins in the hallways and backyards of small-town New England spirals into something darker- obsession, control, violence. She keeps insisting she's fine, but the truth lingers in every bruise, every secret, every phone call she doesn't answer. Pretty When You Cry is a raw and unflinching portrait of girlhood at its most reckless- the way desire can taste like danger, how survival sometimes looks like surrender, and what it costs to finally walk away.

There are two types of people in this world: those who get walked on and those who become what others see them as. Francesca Storm Hilton lives a life that would make any normal person envy her. Her dad works at the most prestigious law firm in Denver, and she attends one of the wealthiest public schools in the area. Those two things combined would make her life almost perfect, except for the fact that her family is broken up and her stepmother is insufferable. So much so, her stepmother is the sole reason Storm acts in the manner that she does. To make matters worse, the drama of high school does not help Storm's reputation. The principal's daughter despises her, and the teachers all know her name. And, as if there needed to be more fuel added to the fire, the principal's daughter's on-and-off again boyfriend takes interest in Storm. Though the feelings are not mutual on Storm's end, what would be the harm in messing with his feelings and simultaneously getting under her enemy's skin?

She only wanted to make it to State. Renata Hernandez is a junior at Centennial High School in Frisco, Texas. Her life is ordinary in the best way-early morning swim practices, late-night study sessions with her best friends, the chaos of the school talent show, and the pressure of the UIL 5A State Championship. She has her brother James, her teammates Mackenzie, Veronica, and Shanzay, and a dream of touching that wall in Austin. February 22, 2025. The finals. She swims the race of her life. A few months later, the TSJ virus reaches the United States. The infected don't stay dead. Safe zones are established. The military is mobilized. And Renata's normal life-the one she worked so hard for-ceases to exist. This is not a story about heroes. It's about a girl who could hold her breath for three minutes underwater, and the family she refused to let drown. The Black Line is a slow-burn spin-off to Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End. Follow Renata from the championship podium to the zombie outbreak, from the Frisco suburbs to the ruins of Dallas. Because when the world ends, you don't need a superpower. You just need to keep swimming.