Free to read! 19-year-old Jane, newly-single, moves to London to work for her friend, Kitty. But Kitty is hiding something about the café - and about Jane and Kitty's past. ***** If you looked at her Instagram, you'd think Jane had the perfect life. But a family tragedy and a big break up shatters that illusion, prompting Jane to drop out of university and move to London. She gets a room above a bookstore and a job as a barista, thanks to her childhood friend Kitty. Struggling with feelings of loneliness among the happy staff, Jane feels further ostracized when Kitty refuses to discuss Matt, who used to live in the bedroom Jane took over and who left under mysterious circumstances. As Jane struggles to find herself, and get the attention of the cute bartender, Harper, she discovers that the Brew Books café is brewing with dark secrets. [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

Vie's mother is fighting cancer. She is in the hospital and Vie is left alone to deal with the pain and loneliness she is feeling. She meets jasper and Leo. They attempt to break her walls and help her. She lies to them to protect them from getting to close to her, the girl who is bound to self destruct at any moment. What Vie doesn't know is that Jasper and Leo won't just give up on her. She also lies to herself about her mother's health. Will her lying stop her from getting the help she needs? Or will it just stall the inevitable, her mother's steady decline and the pain she is bound to feel?