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Parts 75
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katvalentinewrites

"𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞?"

Starting her junior year, Lia DeMarco's predictable life takes a sharp turn when she vows to break out of her comfort zone and date the wealthy football star, Matt Benson. She expected parties and popularity on the sun-soaked horizon, what she didn't expect was the magnetic Nate Miller crashing in and leaving a mark as big as his irresistible grin. 

Asking Nate for surf lessons seemed like a surefire way to shake up her routine, but finding themselves alone together at a wild party sends ripples through her carefully planned path. Facing fears and swimming into uncharted waters, Lia is quickly swept from current to current, caught in a relentless battle of head vs heart. But you can only tread water for so long. 

As the turbulent waves of first love, self-hate, jealousy, and heartache roll in - can she learn to surf them before they pull her under?

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Contains mature themes, read intro for details

Featured on the Ambassador's Pick reading list for @teenfiction 
Featured on the @romance reading list Young Love 

Highest rankings:
#1 Teen Romance
#1 First Love
#1 Summer
#1 Beach
#1 Surfing
#2 Love Story
#2 Slow Burn
#2 Ocean
#4 Hidden Gems
#6 Teen Fiction
#6 Chick Lit
#10 Young Adult
#14 Drama
#14 Undiscovered 
#16 Small TownAll Rights Reserved

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Isla by meddlingkids

[Wattpad Featured] [Watty's Shortlist 2021 & 2022] "Sorry if I'm not in love with you, Everett," I shot back. "You're the one who made a bad first impression." "Me?" he sputtered. "You literally punched me when we first met." "Well, you were... staring!" "Can you blame me?" Isla Monroe has lived in Shellside Bay for her entire life. She's used to the consistent routine of working summers at the Shack, taking the Nauti Buoy out to the island with the boys, and staring at Austin Wright from afar. But when Everett Connolly moves to town for the summer, an American boy with dark hair and a bad attitude, everything is going to change. #1 IN SUMMER Completed: 20/09/20 Word count: 86 756

Love In Destin ✔ by adexpergo

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If You Had Stayed | Small Town Secrets Book One (UNDER CO.) by SNRyter

Second chance romance | Small-town drama | Emotional & Angsty | Slow burn | Heartfelt family moments | Surfer & Broadway dancer love story Six years ago, Lani Daniels left Seaview Bay in the dead of night, her heart in pieces and her past trailing behind her like a ghost. She swore she'd never come back. Swore she'd never step foot on the boardwalk where her first love whispered promises beneath the stars. Swore she'd never face the betrayal that sent her running. But some things are impossible to outrun. Now, forced back to the one place she vowed to forget, Lani must navigate a town filled with memories she can't erase, people she left behind, and the one person she never wanted to see again-Jeremy Briggs. He was everything once. Her best friend. Her safe place. Her future. Now, he's just a stranger with familiar eyes. Determined to keep her heart locked away, Lani throws herself into family, old friendships, and the life she left behind, but Seaview Bay has a way of unraveling the past. And when the truth begins to surface-about that night, about everything she thought she knew-she finds herself caught between the future she built and the love she never truly let go of. But some wounds don't heal. Some things don't fade with time. And when the tides pull her back toward the one thing, she swore she'd never want again, she has to ask herself... Is the past better left buried, or was leaving her biggest mistake?

The Boiling Point | ✔️ by katvalentinewrites

[18+ ENEMIES TO LOVERS COLLEGE ROMANCE] In which two competitive culinary students get under each other's skin in all the right ways. * * * ʙᴏɪʟɪɴɢ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ (ɴᴏᴜɴ): ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ ᴀᴛ ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ᴀɴɢᴇʀ ᴏʀ ᴇxᴄɪᴛᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ ʙʀᴇᴀᴋ ᴏᴜᴛ ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴛ ᴇxᴘʀᴇꜱꜱɪᴏɴ. ʟɪᴋᴇʟʏ ᴛᴏ ʟᴏꜱᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴏʟ ᴏꜰ ᴏɴᴇꜱᴇʟꜰ. Summer Westley and Ashton Banks have three things in common: they both attend the same culinary school, they both want to be the best, and they both drive each other completely crazy. A determined spitfire of a girl and an arrogant devil of a boy, thrust into a storm brimming with conflict and craving right from the bitter beginning. Fighting each other, their hunger, and the ghosts that haunt their past and present, Summer and Ashton soon realize that pushing down emotions can only last for so long until they boil over. And sour first impressions can leave the sweetest of aftertastes. ────────────────────── Contains mature themes - read intro for details 📚Featured on reading lists: @TeenFiction - Friend/Foe to Love, 18 Romance Stories We Are Obsessed With @Romance - Enemies/Friends Highest rankings: #1 Slow Burn #1 Drama #1 Enemies to Lovers #1 College Romance #3 Young Adult #3 Chemistry #3 Fiction #6 College #7 Love Story #10 Mature #12 Feelings #13 Steamy #17 Love #19 Teen Fiction

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[Wattpad Featured] [Watty's Shortlist 2021 & 2022] "Sorry if I'm not in love with you, Everett," I shot back. "You're the one who made a bad first impression." "Me?" he sputtered. "You literally punched me when we first met." "Well, you were... staring!" "Can you blame me?" Isla Monroe has lived in Shellside Bay for her entire life. She's used to the consistent routine of working summers at the Shack, taking the Nauti Buoy out to the island with the boys, and staring at Austin Wright from afar. But when Everett Connolly moves to town for the summer, an American boy with dark hair and a bad attitude, everything is going to change. #1 IN SUMMER Completed: 20/09/20 Word count: 86 756