Original story inspired by All Too Well (10 Minute Version) by Taylor Swift. 18-year-old Autumn Klein starts college at NYU to pursue a degree in writing. Excited about this new adventure and the challenges it would bring, she was prepared for almost everything. Except for one thing... falling in love with her 30-year-old professor, Ethan Parker. Autumn thought she could have it all... The sexy, smart professor. The friends. The career. But in the end? All was left was... heartbreak. The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author. All rights reserved.

When young violinist Lauren Page gets an acceptance letter to the most prestigious music school in the country, she doesn't expect to lose the spark inside of her that made her love playing the violin in the first place. Can Conner Reed, an aspiring photographer who's only in town on a whim, help her find it again? *** Lauren Page is an incredibly talented violinist. She's won more than a few competitions, and some even believe her to be one of the best in the country. She's been dubbed by many to be a child prodigy, as she's been playing since she picked up the instrument at three years old. But now, just a summer away from starting her life in New York at one of the most prestigious art schools in the country, she's having a difficult time finding that old spark within her. The music just doesn't feel like it did before. She's scared. Scared she's not good enough. Scared of being a failure. Scared to even try. In comes Conner, an amateur skateboarder and a not-so-amateur photographer, who literally falls into the most important summer of Lauren's life and tries to show her that she's everything she fears she won't be. Crescendo is a story about friendship, family, and first love. But, more than anything, it's about a girl who is trying to figure out her life just before it really begins. 3rd place in the Fluorescent Awards for Young Adult Fiction 3rd place in the Glorious Awards for Teen Fiction

When seventeen-year-old Thea Allen's small-town private school is destroyed by a tornado, her mother seizes the opportunity to expose her to new experiences and new people. Translation: Mom wants to put hundreds of miles between Thea and her forever boyfriend, Glenn. Thea's inner math geek is tempted by the college level courses offered at the Upper East Side prep school. So, she's almost relieved when Glenn encourages the temporary move to New York City--until he breaks up with her, convinced she needs to date at least one other guy before she can be sure he's The One. Frustrated and reluctantly single, Thea begins her last year of high school at Oscar Zachary, where she discovers her life has developed some disturbing similarities to a certain children's novel. But Thea's "Oz" isn't entirely wonderful. Her Auntie Em is the Wicked Witch. The "heartless" boy next door keeps trying to hook up with her. And Thea is having a hard time ignoring an intense attraction to Conner, AKA The Scarecrow--a haphazardly hot boy, who may or may not even be available. Now the girl with the plan--the one who's always known what she wanted--is losing faith in her carefully plotted future. |Cover images from a photo by Michael Brodzik from Unsplash|