death match • calum hood [book 1, series 1 of the extraterrestrial series]

Boys, alcohol, weed, good grades, and best friends. Ava Hope Platz is living her best life.
That is, until she's thrown into a deadly competition. Unbeknownst to human kind, aliens that are almost an exact replica of Homo sapiens live amongst us. These creatures-aliens- are exactly like humans, except for one quality: they each hold special powers, or gifts.
For her whole life, Ava and her family have never needed to use their powers. But when Ava and 488 others scattered all over the world are chosen to be candidates in the Death Match, a "competition" to choose a new King or Queen, she realizes she might have to start using her gift to save her life.
Meanwhile, the charming yet intimidating Calum Hood snowballs into Ava's life at the worst time possible. After getting past a rough start, Ava and Calum become good friends. But she quickly finds her heart falling for him and forces herself to pull away from Hood because, sadly, she knows she does not have a chance of survival in the Death Match.
But things don't always go as planned. After saying it herself, Ava promptly learns that fate does in fact work in mysterious ways.
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uhhh shoutout to blackbear, post malone, halsey, 5sos,
billie eilish, charlie puth, & a million other artists that i listened to on repeat for hours at a time while writing this that inspired me. also a big thanks to all my friends that read my chapters for me and gassed me up.