Shaun, Kristina, Zoe, and Dallon are not friends. They are assigned a partner project for school, that will force them to interact. Kristina is loud and proud, she is one of the only black students at her school, and is pretty and popular, but she always tries her best to be nice to others. Zoe is quite, she wears dark colors, baggy clothes, and after her mom left, she's hesitant to open up her heart to someone who could shatter it. Shaun is the nerd, he's got straight A's, he stammers when he's nervous (which is almost always), and he's afraid to be himself, because the world isn't very kind to boys who like boys. Dallon is the closeted jock, he's classically handsome, strong, and he has an abnormally huge crush on Shaun. As the group begins to become closer, they uncover secrets about the people around them that were meant to be kept, and strange things begin happening to them. Soon the only people they can trust are each other, and they'll have to be strong to survive.
This story does contain some sexual content (although nothing very explicit), as well as offensive language, and violence, so if you're not comfortable with that, don't read it.
||AMBY'S FAVORITE 2024|| (Editor's Choice July 2022) [LGBTQ+ Teen Fiction] High school junior, Callie Washington, is currently in a dilemma. Attending an all-girls, Catholic high school means most of her peers are focused on college, SATs, and the nearby boys at their brother school, Holy Spirit. But since the start of the school year, Callie can't forget the silky hair and gleaming brown eyes of her former Chemistry partner, Isabella Sandoval. After escaping from her Homecoming date one October evening, Callie runs into Aurora Gray, a smart, charismatic senior, who seems to be having as rough of an evening as Callie. After realizing they are in the same Calculus class, Aurora begins to shift Callie's life in ways she cannot comprehend. Deep down, Callie knows she must confront the thing inside her that is troubling her deeply, but what hurdles will she have to face to get there?
(Published: 2020)