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?”

Mason Johnson's life can in no way be described as perfect. He lives with his sister and her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Caden. All his life he's grown up around drugs, yet some how Mason's stayed clean. It's junior year in high school for this 16 year old and he's just coasting through classes. But when his Drama teacher offers an extra credit opportunity that could help him pass, he finds himself with a role in The Phantom of the Opera opposite of the lovely and beautiful Rose Simpson, who has a clear dislike of Mason. Chemistry flares as the two opposites find themselves spending more time than either wanted to make the play a success.

On a beautiful summer evening, Savannah Hart is working in her mother antique store when an old lady drops a mesmerizing doll off at the store. The first thing Savannah notices are the dolls haunting eyes, which she can forget about. Sucking and drawing her in, Savannah must escape the captivationg eyes of the doll before it's too late. (Give it a chance, I'm bad at descriptions.) "The doll was mesmerizing. She had blonde banana curls that framed her face, with a button nose and rosy lips and cheeks. She had on a beautiful Victorian dress; robin’s egg blue and eggshell white, lacy and long, with a mandarin collar and a matching parasol clutched in her dainty little hand. White Mary Janes adorned her feet. The doll was quite magnificent. The most magnificent part of the doll was her eyes. I couldn’t be sure of their colour, because as I moved to different angles to admire her, her eyes transformed from a sea blue to violet. The eyes seemed to pierce into me to draw me in…

NOW PUBLISHED BY SOURCEBOOKS FIRE! Sixteen-year-old Jackie Howard knows nothing about her new guardian Katherine Walter when she moves from New York to Colorado. After discovering that Katherine has twelve boys, Jackie fears that living in the Walter house isn't going to be easy. It's just icing on the cake that the boys look like models... Cover design by pizzazz-

Haunted. Terrified. Alone. Those three words seem to be the only emotions that seventeen year old Gabriel Adams knows how to feel. At the age of thirteen, when other boys were chasing after pretty girls and playing in the dirt, Gabriel had been kidnapped and molested. Now, several years later, Gabriel still can't return to the normal life he'd lived before the Incident. He's terrified of the dark, and even the daytime gives him anxiety attacks. Gabriel hates being touched. A simple brush against him will set him off into spasms while panic quickly takes over his mind. It seems as if nothing will relieve Gabriel from the constricting, painful claws of the man who'd done him harm, and Gabriel is becoming desperate. That's when Evan Ricci steps in. Evan, a stubborn yet surprisingly selfless teenager, moves to the small, quiet town of Clydesdale Heights. When Evan sees a small, awkward blond haired boy carrying pop boxes across the street while he's bringing moving boxes into the new house, he decides to help him. Things don't go exactly as planned, though, and their relationship begins with a rather rough start. The two eventually learn to bond, and Evan helps Gabriel learn to deal with the psychological consequences of being molested, which eventually blooms into an understanding so deep they can't imagine themselves with anyone but the other. A hint of infatuation sparks up, but not quite yet will the love blossom out like most. Their love will take time. And lots of patience and persistence, too.

When I was 5 years old I was raped by a man. I was alone playing at our backyard when my addict neighbor drag me somewhere I dont remember . He raped me countless times and sliced my small tummy with a scissor. I was left to die, but miracle happened and I survived. I became gay because of that experience. Maybe, just maybe, because of the traumatic incident that happened to me I never let myself trust anyone, not my teachers, classmates, friends, but except for one person who I treasure the most, Nathaniel Gregory my best friend . I don't want to lose my best friend. I like him but I don't want to let him know because he is straight as an arrow. I'm afraid he might get mad at me and leave me alone. His the only one I have, I can't afford to lose this special person. That's why I hook every guy that interest me, or it would be proper to say that reminds me of him. Even if it's just his replacement I want to convince myself that it's better than losing him forever. I don't have permanent partners, even a single night with someone like Nate is enough. Pathetic right? I always run to him when I have problems and he would always listen to me, it's his fault why sometimes I'm hard headed, he spoils me a lot. But I know, that no matter how special I am to him, he would never love me the way I love him. The question is: If he finds out, will he love me back?

What happens when 2 sworn enemies are forced to share a house for the entire winter break? Cassie Anderson is your average 16 year old girl living in Virginia. She has the looks, the brains, the charm, the perfect life in general. Oh, and most of all. She absolutley, 100 percent, hates her sworn enemy. Alex Drew is not your average 16 year old boy living in Virginia. He spent his life feeling neglected by the ones who were supposed to love him most. His Father loathed him because he wasn't the son he was supposed to be. And his Mother hated him because...well there was no reason. Just hate. Cassie's Father is a therapist, he helps broken families. And he takes in the Drew family in order to fix their problems. But with that issue comes another problem. Cassie and Alex have hated each other ever since Cassie publically humiliated Alex in front of the whole school. But once she sees how broken Alex really is, will things change? Will she be there to heal his wounds and help his scars become stars?

Life of a rockstar seems easy for Star, that's so not true. She's a nobody. A girl who was known in the U.K. who's not in the U.S. The people she meets, such as BVB, ETF, and FIR don't even know who she is, yet, they're all calling dibs on her? She goes with the flow, hooking up with whoever wants her. But what if she ends up falling for one? All she's known for is causing heartbreak anyway. What does she have to lose?