"Uh, Els," he frowned, looking at the man beside me. "Who exactly is this gentleman?" I stared at Roman blankly and said," This is my boyfriend. Duh." Roman's eyes widened fractionally, before he cleared his throat and questioned further. "Er. What is his name?" Before my black-headed 'boyfriend' could respond, I said, "I actually don't know." *** Gisella "Ella" Armatello has gone through a lot. She's lost her family to unresolved issues, and her brother to the evil clutches of death. To protect herself, she's created so many walls around her, that coming out of it seems tougher than beating the smartest man at chess. And yet, she needs to. With some help from the friends her brother left behind, Ella sets off on an incredible journey. Literally. If you like road trips, bucket lists, a klatch of beautiful people, depressingly lame anecdotes and other such nonsensical tales, this is the book for you. But, if you can't handle a dose of reality, or of the bitter patches loss leaves behind, this is most definitely NOT your type of book. Warning: Roman Clark and Preston Greyson are fictional characters. You may fall into a state of denial, yearning for their presence.

Banks will be hacked. Hearts will be broken. Watty Winner in the Best New Voices category! I TOLD YOU, ELI OXLEY is a novel about guilt, money, hacking, temptation and family secrets. Set in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the story follows would-be nomad Eli, a brilliant hacker doomed to live at home and attend Crockett State University. Eli has never used his hacking skills for illegal purposes, but when he becomes suspicious of his father's money problems, he decides to act, threatening the principles he once held dear, endangering himself, his family and his love, Allison. Eli, though knowledgable with computers, is ill-informed in every other aspect of his life: he's socially awkward, emotionally inept and sexually inexperienced. Maybe that's why he can't seem to get out of the friend zone with Allison. But will he even need to when the hot, physically forward blonde, Kara is coming on to him? Or what about when Al finally reciprocates his feelings? Then there's the intriguing hacker fraternity he joins who may or may not be acting in Eli's best interest. And to top it all off, a family secret he can't ignore that goes deeper than just missing money. Eli struggles with his feelings for the two girls while retracing his dad's digital footprints, digging for both answers and money. Will Eli get caught hacking his local bank? Will he get caught cheating on Al? In the end, escaping Chattanooga might be the least of his problems.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single boy of Slytherin must not be in love with a girl of Gryffindor. So what does one Blaise Zabini do when he falls madly in love with Hermione Granger? In an attempt to finally win over the heart of the love of his life, Blaise starts writing romantic letters. Hoping Hermione might fall for him before Valentine's Day, he puts everything he has in every single sentence. But the reaction of the woman herself is quite different from what he had hoped for ...