|| a featured story || Aurora never planned on spending her final month alive falling in love. When she meets Gus, a curious boy who is all too eager to waste away the days with her, she finds herself trading in her month of solitude for a month with him instead. Under the summer sun, they promise each other a forever they don't have. All they have is August, and they try to make it enough. [Features a commissioned bonus chapter for the JCPenny #DreamPromposal contest] __________________________ Alex Light © All rights reserved 2018

Nothing trumps receiving bouquets from anonymous secret admirers and Cherish had just received her first. It was romantic and mysterious in an eerie, endearing way and she was determined to find out who it was. She had just gone through a very bad breakup and incidentally, met another guy who'd turn her world upside down. She wonders if the new boy she met is the anonymous admirer. And if he is, what lengths would she go to to find out?