Can you really fall in love with a partner picked by your parents? This is the question explored in Rearranged. For the hopelessly romantic Neha Patel, the only thing worse than an arranged marriage is disappointing her parents. So when she's suddenly taken to India to meet her future husband, Neha drags along her best friend Jenny, a jaded child of divorce, to help derail the plan. What they find in India forever rearranges their understanding of the world, love and themselves. Told from three points of view (Neha, Jenny and Anand, the boy Neha is arranged to marry), Rearranged explores cross-cultural relationships, the diversity of the Indian immigrant experience, the "forgotten" India, and the universal nature of love.

She was fine on her own. But maybe she didn't want to be fine anymore. Maybe she wanted to feel alive. ** Laila Khare: a senior in high school with a pretty good life albeit it lacked any emotion and excitement. She was about to learn how tough life could really get for some people: mental health struggles, immigration issues, genetic differences, and loss were just some of life's many problems. And then she ran into Jai Patel: the infuriatingly observant and hot Gujju boy who just moved in down the street. Laila was about to see just how much color she was lacking in her life before him. Jai was entitled to his own secrets and struggles, however big or small they may be. But maybe he didn't want to keep secrets anymore. Maybe he wanted to show everyone all of his perfect, stunning flaws. Maybe he just needed someone to trust. Something insignificant to one person could be someone else's whole existence. He sure as hell wasn't perfect, but Laila didn't need perfect. She just needed him to open her eyes to all of colors of life, even when he had trouble seeing them himself. ** Best Rankings: #16 in #discoveringyourself #4 in #highschoolsenior ** Cover by: @bookworm_2726

The moment Marley Mason moved to the United States of America he stopped speaking. Dislocated from his mother, friends, and culture, Marley found it impossible to voice his thoughts to anyone but his father. Thereafter, he gave up on himself and his happiness. What else was an alien to do? Until he meets Ava DeLoughery and she makes him want to give this world a second try. To put his headphones down and experience everything that life has to offer one at a time again, and again, and again. For the first time in a long time, Marley Mason feels like himself. But the Miami summer-time heat must be getting to him because Marley Mason should know better than to find a home in fickle people, like Ava DeLoughery. completed

Rose Davies, a modern-day university student, finds herself trapped in the body of a 20s Lady, who had been brutally murdered at her time. Cutthroat gangs, fancy pubs and a new aristocratic lifestyle pull her into the hazardous world of Old London. An encounter with the Walker Twins, leaders of a subversive organisation, throws her into a blind alley as she tries to save herself from the dangerous fate that awaits her. Looking for a way to turn back to her world, what will cross her path in the meantime? Hardship? Crime? Betrayal? New friendships? And perhaps, love? Cover made by nelysian Copyright © 2020 by L (highfoxes)

Excerpts of the diary of Polish Immigrant Anatazja Lizowksi. Follow her through her settlement to a new life in America after leaving her homeland of Poland in 1890.

An Open Novella Contest 2020 Longlist Finalist Arabella W. Washington recently moved to Lower East Side, Manhattan, to do something with her life and start fresh. With the help of her grandma Wang's sizeable inheritance, she is able to rent out Apartment 10B in Windsor Hall, a small, old, and creaky building full of history and personality, which harbors a secret of its own. Food in her refrigerator and utensils in the cupboard starts going missing, and at exactly 6:00 in the evening, she gets the feeling that she is being watched. What is happening in 10B? Is there a human-sized rat trying to make a meal of her groceries or are the rumors true? No wonder the rent was affordable!

Ema Muratovic is 17 years old and the ambitious daughter of Bosnian immigrant parents. She has two goals during her senior year; get a chance to win states for indoor track and break the barrier between her nearly all-white high school, Westbrook High, and the neighboring town's Timothy High School. These goals are not easy to achieve. Along the way, she realizes the immense sacrifices that she has to make for the betterment of herself and other people.

"You have to beat the words, Marta, beat the stuttering. Learn to speak, to let your voice be heard." After her father's death, all Marta wants to do is hide. Hide from her stuttering. Hide from the world outside her home. Hide from her family who so often reminds her of him. But even Marta realizes she cannot hide forever, and staying hidden gets even harder when her mother decides they are leaving Germany for America. Trying so desperately to cling to her silence, Marta realizes her only relief is writing letters. Until she meets Emma, and the families she is forced to stay with. While the families try to help Marta find her voice; Marta realizes the only way to sail towards her family, is to sail away from her silence.

Urdampilleta, 2001. Ignacio Rodriguez has lived his entire life in a small Argentine pueblo-- until his parents' hope for more educational opportunities in America has Ignacio packing his bags with only enough space to carry the memories of his grandparents, school, and friends with him. Ignacio is lifted from his comfortable life in the country and forced into the city of San Francisco. The journey to America is far from linear, and the layovers have him thinking about how different these new worlds are and how much he misses his own. But with Argentina's economic crisis deepening, the chance to return home is slimming. Will Ignacio adapt to his new surroundings? Or will Ignacio and his parents pay the price for the American dream?