High School Relationships

She was never supposed to matter. He was never supposed to care. But blood and fire forge stronger chains than hate. Reyna was supposed to keep her head down and survive long enough to escape the wreckage of her father’s scandal. But Zarik has other plans. The leader of the Vipers sees something dangerous in her. Truth. And weakness. And something he craves more than he should. What starts as cruel control spirals into raw reckless obsession when violence drags them into the same war. Zarik never wanted a girl like Reyna. But he will bleed for her. Kill for her. Burn the world down if it ...

Lured into the most popular in-crowd imaginable, Cassie is intoxicated by her newfound strength. Caught between two members' consuming desires to use the coven's mysterious forces, Cassie turns to one of their boyfriends, Adam - and falls captive to her own dangerous love.

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Los Angeles is all about the sweet life: hot clubs, cute guys, designer... everything. Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts can't wait to start living it up. She may be in L.A. for an internship, but Jane plans to play as hard as she works, and has enlisted her BFF Scarlett to join in the fun. When Jane and Scarlett are approached by a producer who wants them to be on his new series, a "reality version of Sex and the City," they can hardly believe their luck. Their own show? Yes, please!

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He wasn’t supposed to see her secrets, but now that he has, he’ll make sure she never hides again. Lila Moving into a new house was hard enough without Gabe, my cruel, gorgeous stepbrother, making it unbearable. He mocks me, calls me Library Girl, and corners me at every chance. But when he walks in on me in the bathroom and discovers the one secret I've desperately hidden, my body’s humiliating ability to produce milk without a baby, he doesn't recoil in disgust. Instead, his obsession deepens. Now he's relentless, determined to break me down, humiliate me, and own every last part of...

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It's senior year at St. Joan's Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys' texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they can't. First it's the school's queen bee, Clara Rutherford, who suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. Her mystery illness quickly spreads to her closest clique of friends, then more students and symptoms follow: Seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan's buzzes with rumor; rumor blossoms into full-blown panic.

It's 1991, and Tara Maureen Murphy is finally on top. A frightening cross between Regina George and Tracy Flick, Tara Maureen Murphy is any high school's worst nightmare. She's a senior, poised to star as Sandy in South High's production of Grease. Cinching the role is just one teensy step in Tara's plot to get out of her hometown and become the Broadway starlet she was born to be. It gets tricky with the arrival of freshman Matthew Bloom, whose dazzling audition for the role of Danny Zuko turns Tara's world upside down.

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My mother named me Gabriella, after my grandmother who, coincidentally, didn't want to meet me when I was born because my mother was unmarried, and therefore living in sin. My mom has told me the story many, many, many, times of how, when she confessed to my grandmother that she was pregnant with me, her mother beat her. BEAT HER! She was 25. That story is the basis of my sexual education and has reiterated why it's important to wait until you're married to give it up.

Now that Joy is back in Rocky Ridge, she’s hoping she’s made the right decision. Though life with her husband in LA had been turbulent, she’d at least had a job and a steady income. Now she’s got to rebuild from the ground up and jobs aren’t as plentiful in the small mountain town as they were in the city. Her daughter is depending on her, so this move to her home town has to work. Running into Joy was the last thing Aaron expected. She’d been his best friend and his biggest crush back in the day. They tried to date once. He’d been smitten and she’d decided that a guy with ...

Rion has a secret that only Zoe knows. If only she could remember. But he won't tell her because, well…who wants to be with a 4000 year old alien? Even if he does look seventeen. When his totally unsuitable guardian, Archimedes, forces him to return to East Valley High, he can't help but hope the bond between them is still there. Will Zoe learn to like the human he has become? Yet nothing goes the way he hopes, especially when Harry Crosby turns up and starts turning heads. Maybe even Zoe's? And then there's Jas, who makes it clear she still likes Rion and will stop at nothing to convince...

Kyle and Kimberly have been the perfect couple all through high school, but when Kimberly breaks up with him on the night of their graduation party, Kyle’s entire world upends - literally. Their car crashes, and when he awakes, he has a brain injury. Kimberly is dead. And no one in his life could possibly understand. Until Marley. Marley is suffering from her own loss, a loss she thinks was her fault. And when their paths cross, Kyle sees in her all the unspoken things he’s feeling.

One big city guy home for a high school reunion + One jaded girl home after catching her cheating fiancé = One sweet, scandalous, funny and clean FAKE RELATIONSHIP short romance! Mia thought she had left her small-town life behind when she moved away to start fresh with her new husband. But after a devastating betrayal and a swift divorce, she’s back at Folly Beach, living with her mom and trying to piece her life together. The last thing she expected was to run into Oliver—her high school best friend and the man who once broke her heart. Oliver came to their ten-year high school ...

In 2014, Chessy Prout was a freshman at St. Paul's School, a prestigious boarding school in New Hampshire, when a senior boy sexually assaulted her as part of a ritualized game of conquest. Chessy bravely reported her assault to the police and testified against her attacker in court. Then, in the face of unexpected backlash from her once-trusted school community, she shed her anonymity to help other survivors find their voice.

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Her shame was his weapon, but their desire became their war. Lena Martinez, a scholarship student at Ridgemont Prep, clings to her dignity while hiding a humiliating secret that could shatter her future. Valentine’s Day brings no reprieve, only the cruel attention of Ethan Holt, the academy’s golden heir. With his wealth, charm, and vicious intent, he uncovers her vulnerability, wielding it like a blade to bind her to him. Ethan’s twisted game of blackmail ignites a dangerous spark. Each forbidden encounter in shadowed classrooms and secret corners pushes Lena deeper into his control,...

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