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]]

｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ Celebrated kids of top-stars. Trips to exotic locations. Finest treatments of unparalleled beauty therapy, cuisines and hospitality. And heirs to world's billion-dollar generational corporations - these walk the floors of RUTHANNE GEORGESON HIGH SCHOOL, ruling with a Gems' Empire divisional system. . . •══• Ademisola Ilori, a teenager from the slums of Lagos, carries a blazing desire to be a Neurosurgeon for her sister ailed with Lou Gehrig's disease and hopes for a better future. On getting a class scholarship from R.G.H.S and accepting, her life flips a hundred-and-eighty degree and is hurl in the midst of Demon Kings and Ice Queens, a fiery Princess and gossip e-zines, all bent on making her leave Ruthanne. Interviews, Luncheons, Dinner parties and more are norms of this world, and Demi, tumbling through it all with an angelic Prince, stumbles on a secret that could crash the school; a secret of greedy ambitions, and dead bodies, and files; a secret with far-reaching consequences than expulsion: one that could endanger her life and family's. . . ☆ 1st Place in Teen Fiction Genre in the Golden Awards 2k19 ☆ ☆ Tied in 2nd Place in Teen Fiction Genre in the Sixth Chaos Awards ☆ ☆ 2nd Place in Teen Fiction in the Ankara Community Awards ☆ ☆ 3rd Place in General Fiction in the 3rd Ohana Awards ☆ ☆ Winner of Ernesty's Community Weekly Contests: 23 ☆ ___ Featured on YA's, Wattmulticultural's and TalkthePOC's Reading Lists ___ cover by @stellardreams-