Sarah Marsden is prepared to rock NaNoWriMo this year. With tormented yet charming heroes, a fantastic magical world, and a thrilling sword & sorcery plot, she’s sure her novel will be amazing. She writes through the night, fighting exhaustion, until the words on the screen start to blur. Until she closes her eyes, just for a second… and wakes up in the fantasy world of her novel. Unsure if she’s dreaming, hallucinating from lack of sleep, or if she finally lost it, Sarah figures her best course of action is to covertly follow her heroes around, watching her story unfold and maybe picking up a few new ideas along the way. But then her characters start going off script. They’re not talking to the right people, they’re not solving the mystery — they’re just screwing everything up! Sarah is well aware of what will happen if the villain wins, so she takes things into her own hands, teaming up with the heroes so she can secretly keep them on the right track. The heroes are the only ones who can save the world, but she’s the only one with the knowledge to guide them. And she must do so without letting them discover who she is, or that they’re all just characters in her story. This year’s NaNoWriMo is definitely going to be one to remember.

Bailey Hillstrand grew up on the sea her entire life. She wants nothing more to do in life than live her life on the bering sea and own her own crab boat one day. After realizing that with the competition between her brothers and cousin she'll never get to run the Time Bandit, she sets out to find work on other boats in hopes of getting her name out and working her way up to captain. Bailey lines up work with the Cape Caution, and meets Zack Larson, who's had a secret crush on her for years. Will Bailey fall for him? Or will the pressure and longing of owning her own boat keep her from seeing what's right in front of her?

Aurora is teenager from a broken home. While she tries to make the best out of everything given to her, her life seems to just get harder no matter what she does. She reaches the point of ending it - but that's where Michael comes in. They both live complicated lives where nothing seems to work out, but they do everything they can to make their relationship work. Aurora learns by being with him that life isn't always easy... but it's worth it. All she wants to do is live her life, and finally be clean of her past. But will it happen?