High school is hard for most people and for Chloe Miller, this is no exception. She is forced to learn the perils of her choices the hard way and the result leads her to building a steel wall around herself that is impossible to crack. Eventually, her mother loses her job and Chloe is then forced to move in with her cousin and their family. This means a new school and on the first day she arrives with a dynamite mission in mind. A mission to reclaim everything that she had once lost at the hands of others. She quickly finds herself fighting a past that she struggles to forget and creating a future that she can live with. It becomes a constant battle for her, centered around peer pressure, character stereo types, cliques and consequences. Couple that with the plight of falling in love and she finds herself playing a starring role in the game of life where everyone is playing for keeps. Will she win... or will she lose? Excerpt: Sauntering forwards, she slid onto his lap with all the grace of a prima ballerina and wrapped her long arms around his neck. Leaning in to his ear, she blew out a little puff of hot air so that it fanned lightly over all the right places. She felt a sense of utter satisfaction when he shuddered. Now that Chloe was certain that she had his attention, she whispered in his ear. “You may have been the best bucko, but guess what…..I’m going to be better.” She lifted up so that she could look him in the face and smiled confidently back at him. His previous cocky demeanor had seemed to have lost some of its earlier steam, “Who are you?” he asked so low that only Chloe could hear him. His forehead was creased as he searched her face, watching her as if she was some type of strange puzzle that needed to be solved. Chloe lifted her hand patted his cheek. The boy didn’t have a clue. “I, my friend, am your biggest adversary. So what do you say Mr. Player, won’t you play with me?”

Jane Anderson is a Junior in high school, she's been crushing on John since they were ten years old. The only problem is, he's a senior and doesn't know she exists. So to get noticed she has a plan, one that consists of her pulling him into a closet, kissing him, and then professing her love. She runs out before he can see her, and it turns out they have a class together. What happens when they become friends and all he can do is think about the closet girl? But at the same time he starts to like Jane? Will she have the courage to admit it was her?

It started with a bet between two people who should have never been left alone together. Angelica Crushly eats, sleeps and breathes hockey. Since her father used to play for the Philadelphia Flyers and now is the coach, she didn't have much choice. He runs his team by a certain set of rules that all the players are expected to follow. The first and most important rule, Don't date my daughter! It was put in place for reasons that haunt Angelica's love life every day. A new player, Trey McLaferty, thinks he's above that rule. He believes he's above any rule, really. He loves a challenge and will stop at nothing to date the coach's daughter, the biggest challenge ever! So, he comes up with a bet, if he gets a hat trick in his next game, Angelica has to go out with him. With one bet Trey McLaferty tries to skate into Angelica's hockey heart. But not all ice is smooth......

Cambria Casebolt. Bullies and being called words no one should ever be called was a daily occurrence and she’d long since gotten used to it. As usual, once one person started, everyone else joined in. Every single day of her life she lived like this, never telling anyone, and just moving through her life without having any importance to anyone. Or so she thought. When Jace North moves to Canby, Oregon, and is deemed the popular kid, will things worsen or get better for Cambria?

Everyone dies, someday and somehow. Sixteen year old Allie is dying of cancer. More than anything, she wants to be a normal teenager. But pretending is exhausting and the lies pile up. With a chance at first love and true friends, Allie must choose between maintaining the pretence or risking everything with the truth. Can Allie open her heart and embrace love? If you liked 'The Fault in Our Stars' by John Green or 'A Walk to Remember' by Nicholas Sparks, you'll love Awakening to Life.

Love confessions change everything. But not with Ruth and her best friend, Les. When Ruth finally plucks up the courage to tell him that she is in love, he rejects her then pretends it never happened! As Ruth tries to get over him and find a life for herself she discovers that Les might have lied - about more things than one. Add in a potential new step-mom and a mysterious new guy, change isn’t the only thing love can do.

Isabel Marant is childhood best friends with Aaron Fox. He just happens to be the hottest movie star since Brad Pitt and Hollywood's new Golden Boy. Now after eight months filming abroad he's back and Isabel's life is about to get a whole lot more complicated....

Stella’s not like most girls. She doesn’t spend her nights talking about cute boys or who she’s going out with next week. Cause really, what’s the point in that? When a new kid, Jace Matthews transfers to her school, she’s probably the only girl not under his charm, making her Jace’s number one target. It seems like he just won’t leave Stella alone, and she’s left with her last resort: fighting fire with fire. Someone needs to teach pretty boy a lesson, and Stella’s the perfect girl to do it.

Clarissa thought she knew her bestfriend very well. But Her bestfriend tally was hiding a secret from her. She has a hot delinquent brother who is a big pain in the butt, but what happens when Clarissa a goody goody gets to know this Delinquent guy??

When 17 year old Skyla Bennett’s mother remarries to the father of her all time enemy Josh Dawson, she couldn’t think her life could get any worse. She is forced to adapt to his likings as well as focussing on taking the role as a sister to his other brothers, particularly one, Chase, who Skyla seems to have sprung a liking to since the first time they met. Skyla and Josh’s parents beg them to get along for the sake of the family, but will getting on open a new leaf for them? A leaf of untold desires and emotional confusion for Sky between Josh and her boyfriend Matt. Matt is one of Skyla’s best friends. He claims he loves Skyla and would do anything for her... but is he all that he had cracked up to be? A tale of Love, Betrayal and Friendship. Will Skyla ever get her happy ending? And will it even involve Josh...