Coldwater is the kind of mountain town where nothing stays secret and everyone knows who will be sitting at the diner before they walk through the door. Then something falls from the sky. When a mysterious capsule crashes deep in the mountains, Deputy Lena Navarro joins a small group of locals searching for answers. What they find is wounded, intelligent and desperate to survive. With the roads buried, communications failing and a brutal winter night closing around them, Coldwater becomes a hunting ground. Every attempt to fight back only makes the creature stronger. Every place of safety becomes another trap. And somewhere beneath the violence, an impossible signal is counting down toward something far worse. For Lena, her sheriff father, the mountain rescue captain she once planned to marry, a determined local doctor, a sharp tongued diner owner and two teenage best friends carrying years of unspoken feelings, surviving until morning will demand more than courage. Because in Coldwater, dawn is not a promise. It is a deadline.

Les métahumains sont apparus il y a plus d'un siècle. Depuis, le monde fait semblant de gérer la situation. L'Agence de Régulation Superhumaine trie, classe, surveille. Elle décide qui compte... et qui peut crever à cause d'un dossier oublié. Derrière les discours bien propres, tout s'achète : les messages, les preuves, les vies. Et pendant que la majorité ferme sa gueule, certains passent à l'action. Pas des héros. Pas des modèles de vertu. Juste des gens assez tarés pour s'attaquer à un système qui broie tout ce qu'il touche. Ils savent que ça va mal finir. Ils savent qu'ils vont trop loin. Mais quand tout est déjà foutu, est-ce qu'il reste vraiment une limite à ne pas franchir ? Ou est-ce que la putain de fin justifie les putains de moyens ?

Teresia knows sleeping with the pastor's son is a terrible idea. After her mother marries an assistant pastor and moves them onto the grounds of The Well Fellowship, eighteen-year-old Teresia Elkund quickly learns never to give anyone a reason to talk. Then she meets Charles Connors. He's the pastor's son: beautiful, experienced, watched by everyone, and far too used to getting away with things. His mother wants him with a nice church girl. He wants Teresia alone without anyone noticing. He is the first boy to touch her and the first person to make her feel fully alive in her own body. Then Teresia learns about Jeannette Reyes. Jeannette used to date Charles, and neither of them seems completely finished with the other. She is also the girl behind The First Draft, a secret writing group that meets off-campus and reads the kind of stories Teresia would never dare leave open on her desk at home. Teresia wants in. She wants to write something good enough to make them stop seeing her as the quiet church girl with nothing to confess. The church wants Teresia pure. The writing group wants her honest. Charles wants her in secret. Teresia wants too much of it all to walk away. Set in 1984, Teresia is a dark coming-of-age romance about desire, rivalry, shame, obsession, and the cost of wanting freedom more than forgiveness. ❤️ REVIEWS ❤️ Your story still pops into my head. I loved it. So different from everything I've read before - Eleanor of Corrupt Romantics

Liana Sterling has spent her entire life being watched. As the daughter of one of the country's most powerful political families, every decision, every smile, and every step of her future has already been planned. To the world, she has everything. Ultramarine is a story about freedom, longing, and the lives we inherit before we ever have the chance to choose our own. Tender, melancholic, and deeply romantic, it explores what it means to be truly seen and how a single person can change the course of a life forever.