✘ [first book in the series.] the one where cute and innocent vic fuentes follows the advice of his best friend jenna, and writes a love note to the gregarious, pretty faced moron, kellin quinn. ❝i placed my ice cream tub back on the table, before curling up into a ball on top of one of my fluffy, monumental pillows. i hugged it, like my life depended on it, my chest heaving in sobs, all because of one boy.❞ © tesfuen ✧ fuentabulous

❝ if this were a movie, i would ride off in some blood red sunset down a stretch of desert road into the wasteland that keeps us captive here. but this isn't a movie. these are the badlands. ❞ Kellin Quinn lives in an urban wasteland. At the tender age of twenty-one, they deal drugs to get by and spend their nights running through dirty streets with a gender that's undefined, a heart that pumps fear instead of blood, and a sense of desperation that could kill a man. Just as they're finally starting to accept their fate and deal with the fact that they're stuck in this filthy place, their already upside-down life is further spun around by the enigmatic Vic Fuentes. It's a relationship built on survival and fueled by doubt, but when Vic mentions a desire to escape, it brings out the rebellious anger that Kellin was sure had been lost at age nineteen. They both know that it's too much to ask for, but now, more than anything, all they want is to be free.

Vic Fuentes has a strict policy against having anything to do with people such as strippers, prostitutes, and porn stars. He also has a raging crush on the quiet, mysterious Kellin Quinn. So for Vic’s eighteenth birthday, his friends decide to throw him a party with a special guest: a male stripper. Named Kellin Quinn.

wanderlust [WON-der-luhst] n., a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about One day, Kellin decides to escape his Oregon hometown by taking a one-man trip to California. While there, he doesn’t plan for his car to get stolen by a devious ex. He doesn’t plan on having to follow smart-ass clues to get it back. He doesn’t plan on enlisting the help of a hurricane named Vic Fuentes. And Kellin certainly doesn’t plan on falling in love with him.

**THIS IS THE SEQUEL TO WANDERLUST. PLEASE READ THAT FIRST.** cataclysm [KAT-uh-kliz-uhm] n., a violent upheaval that causes great destruction or brings about a fundamental change After leaving Kellin, Vic ends up in a confusing sort of relationship with his ex-boyfriend, Craig. Craig can’t seem to figure out what he wants, but when he kicks Vic to the curb, Vic decides to take matters into his own hands. One year later, he finds himself sober, but his dreams of being in a band are going down the drain. So when he hears about a band in Oregon that’s in need of a guitarist, he jumps at the opportunity—only to discover that the lead singer of this band is none other than Kellin Quinn.