Sometimes <3 means like. Sometimes <3 means love. Like the emotions it represents, sometimes <3 gets complicated. Fifteen-year-old Summer Day has a plan for the perfect school vacation until her mom drops the M-bomb on it. She wants Summer to do something 'M-eaningful' this year. Could anything be more meaningful than gossiping with best friend Madison or hanging out with perfect boyfriend Brady? Summer skirts her mother's demands by promising to construct a website - then launches a secret blog instead. But when the most annoying boy in the universe keeps showing up in embarrassingly intimate situations, Brady grows jealous, and Summer turns to her blog readers for help. They devise a plan but everything backfires when the boy she thought she'd always hate reveals he knows the stories behind the stars, the lyrics to all of Summer's favorite songs and the s'mores-lined path that leads straight to her heart.

What if Romeo and Juliet were set amidst an invasion of alien bugs? Is there any possibility for a happy ending? Or is their fate still written in the stars? This story was written for the Soothe the Savage Beast anthology (http://www.silenceinthelibrarypublishing.com/product/soothe-savage-beast/) The art is by Erin Kubinek.

Don't you miss Providence Prep and all of the quirky drama that takes place inside its doors? The confusing love rectangles, the dress code infractions Quinn can never seem to escape, and the lousiest football team in all of high school history? Quinn's about to miss it all, too-in only thirty days. Six months later, Quinn is navigating through the last month of her sophomore year of high school. But that's not all she has to deal with: as her impending move over a thousand miles away is on the horizon, Quinn can't help but face the harsh reality. She still hasn't told her boyfriend of exactly six months that she's leaving. And if that isn't a cause for the most catastrophic yet comedically Quinn-like disaster, she doesn't know what is. {Cover by @graphicqueen-}

Erika Soto is one of those pretty plastic people. She's been rated a nine by the senior boys every single Monday, and at a school where secrets and weaknesses are taken advantage of, a high rating is a ticket to the school's elite. But there's more to Erika and the Aquino High royalty she surrounds herself with: there's regret, flaws, and a single night that rips them all apart. And after years of clawing her way to the top, for the first time she can see things clearly: she's done with only being pretty and plastic. As her life starts to unravel and her perspectives on everyone she thought she knew change, she has to make a quick decision between living at the top of the pyramid and living with herself. And even if she does choose to take a stand, who's to stay she'll succeed? Can the girls on top really overthrow a system that's years in the making?

Compared to the beautiful, outgoing Melody, Sutton Bran has always lived in her older sister's shadow as the shy, innocent girl. Even so, she happens to catch the attention of mysterious bad boy Colton Jones. He steals her first kiss one night at a party and sends her home thinking that her life is finally starting to fall into place... that is, until she arrives at her house to find that Melody has been killed in a drunk driving accident. Unable to deal with her grief, Sutton's life spirals out of control. But one guy thinks he has what it takes to show her there's still so much to live for. All she has to do is be a little rebellious.

Tessa Dupont seems like a normal girl in high school, however behind the shell she shows everyone she is suffering. Her rich and selfish parents, using her for their own means to get ahead in life, are only the most superficial of all her troubles. She has a dangerous past that she is trying to forget, a past that is hellbent on getting her back. Trey Sampson is the "bad boy" of the school and a serial whore, however when he meets seemingly innocent Tessa, he is drawn to her. As he learns more and more about her, the more he wants to protect her, but some things might be too dangerous for even him.