“I only see everyone as an equation,” he explains to me, “a sort of…problem that needs figuring out.”
“So have you figured me out yet? Have you found the answer?”
“No…not yet.”
“Maybe you can’t figure people out, then,” I interject, “Or maybe you won’t, because you only use your head. And you never use your heart.”
He smirks. “I thought they said I didn’t have one.”
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Eccentric, erratic, and ambitious, Valentine “Val” Gallagher has been bored her entire life. After all, the most exciting thing that has ever happened in her small seaside town of Seashire was when some massive snowstorm hit the previous winter. Desperate to leave behind a mundane life here, she fantasizes about making it big with her gift for singing in the big city. After all, having never known her real parents and with only one person in the world she can truly call her friend, there would be hardly anyone holding her back from leaving.
Until he happened.
Tall, insanely intelligent and with an awful smoking habit, Matthias Stahl moves to Seashire and into Val’s life. All at once, they discover that they’re polar opposites: she fierce and passionate, him detached and heartless, …and they absolutely hate each other.
But if Val is supposed to despise him, how has he become her anchor, the only thing holding her here?
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It is always winter for Matthias, empty and cold…but ice can melt, can’t it?
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Moving back to her old school, Alana befriends the arrogant Xavier. Underneath his scars are feelings for her, feelings neither of them can deny.
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Moving back to her hometown after six years away, Alana meets her childhood rival, Xavier, sitting on her mother's gravestone. He's still determined to tease and annoy her, and his arrogance and willingness to fight means she writes him off as a good-for-nothing. But underneath Xavier's tough-guy facade is a heart that has given too much, and been hurt too deeply. With each moment she spends with him, Alana starts to feel more connected to him. She gradually helps Xavier find himself, and he shows her how incredible she is as well. But after facing a tragic loss that shakes Xavier to the core, will Alana be able to hang on to him, or will he fall so deeply into himself that both of them are lost?
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