*Wattys 2018 Winner / Hidden Gems* CREATE YOUR OWN MR. RIGHT Weeks before Valentine's, seventeen-year-old Kate Lapuz goes through her first ever breakup, but soon she stumbles upon a mysterious new app called My Dream Boyfriend, an AI chatbot that has the ability to understand human feelings. Casually, she participates in the app's trial run but finds herself immersed in the empathic conversations with her customizable virtual boyfriend, Ecto. In a society both connected and alienated by technology, Kate suspects an actual secret admirer is behind Ecto. Could it be the work of the techie student council president Dion or has Kate really found her soulmate in bits of computer code? She decides to get to the bottom of the cutting-edge app. Her search for Ecto's real identity leads Kate to prom, where absolute knowledge comes with a very steep price.

"We're mates." Caleb said. I froze. My eyes scanned his face closely, reading carefully to see if he was being serious. It was a ridiculous statement. A werewolf being mated to a vampire? Impossible. Our species immensely disliked eachother. There was no way it was true. The Alpha let out a sigh, as if detecting my denial. Before I could react, Caleb took my hand into his, grasping it tightly. Spark erupted immediately from the area he touched. A foreign heat coated my skin and butterflies flutter in my stomach. My eyes widened in disbelief and stomach twisted into an uncomfortable knot. I couldn't believe it. I was his mate. ---- Raven is a vampire. She's sneaky, independent, and enjoys freedom. When starvation hits her clan, forcing them to break the territory line with the local werewolves pack, the young vampire suddenly finds herself caught in between two werewolves. Though one freezes, the other attacks, knocking her out cold. When she awakes she finds herself locked in a room with an Alpha who claims she's his mate.