Sometimes the best lessons aren't learned in class, they're felt in the heart. Riley Hale's life runs on caffeine, chaos, and cupcake batter. At twenty-eight, she's mastered the art of single motherhood, sarcasm, and pretending she's totally fine that her love life has been replaced by late-night cleaning montages and her eight-year-old's existential questions. Then one morning, a frosty stranger in a perfect beige coat walks into The Sweet Spot bakery and straight into Riley's list of "people I will never impress." After one spilled coffee and a mortifying apology later, Riley is convinced she'll never see the woman again. Until the next day, when she meets her daughter's new fifth-grade teacher... Miss Emerson Miller. What follows is a year of accidental flirtations, school-event disasters, and late-night bake-offs that blur the line between enemies, friends, and something sweeter. Because sometimes love doesn't show up when you plan it - it spills all over your shoes and dares you to start over. A slow-burn, small-town romantic comedy about second chances, messy mornings, and discovering that the best lessons aren't always taught in classrooms.

Yellowjackets Mari x OC 1996. Dani finds a home on the soccer field. The Yellowjackets make it to nationals and on the final night home, she decides to run away. Nationals is supposed to be the last day of her old life and the first of her new one. If only she knew how true that would be. 2021. The plights of the past have come back to haunt Danika and Mari. As the couple watch their friends die one by one, they must grapple with the ghosts of their pasts and the ones of the present.

"Loving someone else that's easy, but loving myself that's the hard part." -------------------------------------- High school is hard enough with school work and emotions try adding sexuality to the mix. Meet Grace Anderson. She's the good girl with everything figured out. I mean her life was headed in the same direction It always has, straight towards perfection. With good grades and amazing friends. Nothing to worry about with her boyfriend. She was the perfect girl all around. That all changes when she meets Nova. Nova Perkins is the bad girl with intentions unknown to others. Purple hair and all, she was the exact opposite of perfect. Immediately intrigued by the girl next door, she tries to get closer to Grace. Only to set off a world wind of emotions and a heart filled love story. Both girls unsure of one another, make sense of months of self-discovery, heartbreak and loving moments. Will the two end up together? Or will it be another tragic love affair between two young souls trying to figure out who they are? ---------------------------------------- Highest Rankings #40 on school romance # 71 on GirlXGirl #53 on confused ---------------- Started: December 2016 Ended : October 2020

A 17 year old girl, named Camille Edwards and her mom and dad lives in a dangerous-ghetto neighborhood. Her mother is a crack fiend, and her father is ever barely around, roaming the streets. She lives in a broken-poor neighborhood in the housing projects, figuring out ways to turn her life around. Camille hasn't been the brightest of many 17 year old's. But It wasn't her fault for growing up with bad parents. She has a two year old daughter from an abusive boyfriend named Tyrese Jackson (19) who is a street pharmacist and a gang member. Since her parents aren't there for her and since she's an only child, Camille has grown to take care of herself and go to school all on her own. In order to help pay half for rent, for her daughter, and for her boyfriend she is a local tutor in the neighborhood. When that doesn't work out... She goes into illegal situations in the streets in order to make the money every month. She ultimately has a breakdown and figures that nobody would ever truly love her until she met a guy, a guy who would love her, cherish her, and help take care of her. If only she would let him. It ain't easy growing up without good influences, but only Camille can figure out the pursuit of happiness in her teenage love affair.

When you live in small, typical town like Portland, Oregon, you don't expect much. Arielle Martinez had her best friends, an annoying sister, and a single mother. Life was just a sweet time. She got through middle school and was now living her third year of high school. Junior. The only thing for her agenda this year is smiles, laughs, more laughs, and more memories. Of course, the dark-haired troubled, bad boy, Shadowfax Skywood didn't pop in her delicate, easygoing mind. Why would it? Freshman through Sophomore they never acknowledged each other's presence. Not even fight for the last apple pie in the cafeteria. But things have changed when both are thrown more and more into each other's path, but this doesn't bother Arielle much because she has nothing to hide, but what about Shadow? He's not popular, but he isn't close to a loner or at all of being ignored. So what is it? What's his secret? No turning back now, they're both in deep, but will this destroy them or get them closer?

She's a Rose by any other name... A young agent is assigned to a mission unlike any that she had ever been on before. Under the name Callie Rosenfield, she enrolls in a prestigious academy where she is to live a normal life. Her real objective is as unknown to her as the daily troubles of being a teenage girl- battling emotions she never realized she had, petty drama, keeping good grades, and boy problems. Haunted by her job-given title, the "Chestnut Rose", Callie fights to balance her real life and her prioritized mission. Can she adapt to her new environment that is much different than the only one she's ever known? But the more important question is, can she learn to deal with becoming more human in the process? Author's Note: I wrote this novel 7 years ago and it is currently in the process of being rewritten. This is just the first draft!

Hope Flynn used to love water. She never realized the power of water, or the strength of it until the accident. Now Hope knows just how dangerous water can be. Water is the reason her sister is dead, and the reason she almost died. Hope can't remember what happened the night of the tragedy, but everyone assures her she couldn't have done anything to save her sister. Juliet Price has attended Redwood High since the beginning of sophomore year, but she's never spoken to Hope, Juliet doesn't fit in with her classmates as she wasn't born rich and she didn't grow up getting everything she wanted. The only reason Juliet is at the exclusive private school is because she's living with her wealthy aunt and uncle. Juliet knows what happened to Eleanor Flynn, most of the world does. The Flynn family are very wealthy and very famous. Even though Juliet and Hope have never spoken, Juliet can tell that Hope is acting weird and she doesn't think it's entirely because Eleanor is dead. When Juliet and Hope are brought together through a class project, Juliet starts to realize that Hope won't be able to start moving on unless she finds out what happened the night her sister died, and why she can't remember it. When the two start investigating, they realize that the truth is pointing to something dark. Almost everyone attending Redwood has secrets, and they'll do what it takes to keep them private. When the truth starts to come out, Hope is left to wonder if she remembers the dreadful night and finds out she had something to do with it, will she ever forgive herself?

Let's be real-school isn't easy for everyone. Some people are born for it; they breeze through exams, ace every subject, and seem to have a secret code to surviving quizzes without breaking a sweat. But for the rest of us? We study 'til our eyes hurt, only to get red marks in return. We try, we fail, and we wonder why it's so hard to keep up while others make it look so easy. Gianna Rye Medina lives that struggle every single day. With her average IQ, Math feels like a never-ending nightmare she can't escape. Failing grades? Already part of her routine. Pasang-awa scores in other subjects? That's her definition of "victory." But just when she's ready to stop trying, here comes Zion Blaze Zamora-their class's golden boy. A Math major. The school's academic archiver. The guy who probably dreams in numbers and wakes up with formulas in his head. They couldn't be more different-she's always lost in class, and he's always on top. But when fate (and maybe a few group projects) start pulling them together, Gianna wonders: is Zion there to remind her of how far behind she is... or could he be the unexpected answer to the equation she's been failing all along? A story about falling, failing, and finding the kind of connection that no grade or formula could ever predict.

Clementine Marsh, a struggling, 17 year old is shipped off to a boarding school by her parents, where her parents hope she can find ways to cope with everything she's lost and everything she is going through. In her first week, she's already had trouble with another stuggling girl, but also made friends with a boy who is keen to introduce Clementine to his friendgroup. What Clementine doesn't know though, the girl she made trouble with, is in that friendgroup. Will they work out their differences? Will they fight in secret? Or will they help eachother? - "Im not fighting you." I spat, wanting with everything in me to hit her but i couldn't. Her eyes narrowed as she took a step closer. "Why." "Because im not dividing your group up just because you're just angry and looking for someone to take it out on." I said, pushing her back slightly and she stumbled. "If we fight, you're gonna divide your group up and that is not going to be on me. Louis is going to take my side, shit sounds like Sophie will too. You're angry, you're looking for someone to take it out and fine. Take it out on someone, but not on me because it will tear your group apart."

Carmen Davies- Recently transferring from UCLA, Carmen arrives with a smile that never fades and an energy that draws people in. Bright, bubbly, and effortlessly charming. Within days, she becomes a familiar face on campus-warm, talkative, always laughing. But behind her sunny confidence is a sharp, curious mind, and it doesn't take long for someone to catch her attention-not for how present they are, but for how removed and absent. Ivan Anderson- He has mastered the art of invisibility, he has drifted through his years at Columbia near silence. His world is quiet and controlled-by choice. With a past he'd rather keep buried deep down and emotions he struggles to contain, Ivan solitude and medication to keep himself in check. He's built walls high enough to keep everyone out, believing it's safer that way. No one's ever really tried to break them down-until now. When Carmen is assigned to Ivan for academic mentoring, their worlds quietly collide. She's drawn to his mystery; he's unnerved by her light. As Carmen begins to pull at the threads of Ivan's carefully guarded life, what starts as a simple partnership begins to unravel something deeper. But how do you reach someone who doesn't want to be found? And what if the one thing Carmen needs to save him... is the very thing he's spent years hiding from? Find out in "Almost Broken..."