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Vincent Jones is not comfortable with change. For the past three years, Vince has been with his gang: the closest friends he's ever had for as long as he can remember. He's beyond ecstatic to be spending his senior year with his best friends, and although he sometimes feels as if he's friends with them by pure accident, Vince is happy either way.
When Vince's parents, two in-demand Hollywood producers, get called away overseas for a long production, they tell Vince that he'll be spending his senior year in the town of Rainer's Glen. Away from home, away from his friends, away from his life. Vince knows that he can't change his parents' mind, so he has no choice but to go along with it.
What Vince doesn't know, is that the best times of our lives may happen sometimes after something we don't like happens. In Rainer's Glen, Vince will come to know what it means to have friends, to love himself, and to love another.
Ella is falling apart trying to live a "perfect" high school life. Then she meets Ren, who can see past her scars. Suddenly perfection isn't her only option.
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Ella Volkov is a gifted music student, but she's depressed and starting to crack under the pressure of high school. Her overbearing father won't even let her choose what instrument she plays. Then she finds herself alone at a party with Ren, her best friend's crush. She'd always thought he was rude, but after that night he's all Ella can think about. Now she's trapped. If Ella dates Ren, it will ruin her friendship with Jenny. But if she stays true to Jenny, she's losing the one person who can see past her scars. It's up to Ella to decide if she will forge her own path, or stay in the "perfect" box designed for her...
Content and/or Trigger Warning: depression, anxiety, self-harm, violence, sexual assault.
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