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coming of age
Mystery / ThrillerThe Girl Who Vanished After Prom
One year ago, Avery Delaney walked out of prom wearing their dead mother's blue dress and vanished. No goodbye. No body. No answers. The town decided Avery had run away. Some decided her prom date, Ezra Kane, had killed her. But Wren Delaney never believed either story. Then, on the anniversary of Avery's disappearance, a postcard arrives from Baltimore. There are no words on it. Only a tiny drawing of a wren wearing a crooked crown, tilted left. A drawing only Avery could have made. Suddenly Wren knows one thing for certain. Her sister is alive. Finding her means reopening everything Linden Ridge buried, including their mother's suspicious death, a corrupt investigation, a powerful family's secrets, and the forty missing minutes Ezra Kane has refused to explain for an entire year. Ezra may be the boy everyone thinks destroyed Wren's family. He may also be the only person who tried to save it. And the closer Wren gets to the truth, the clearer one terrifying fact becomes. Avery did not simply vanish after prom. Someone made sure she had to.
New story 路 0 savedYoung Adult RomanceThe Summer Before Everything Changed
Tessa Quinlan has spent four years believing one reckless text killed her brother. Now the Blue Heron Inn is being sold, the boy whose family took the blame has returned to Sandpiper Key, and Luke鈥檚 old phone has surfaced with a summer list he never finished. Eli Barrow did not come back for Tessa. He came back for the evidence his father was blamed for losing. But the deeper they dig into the night Luke died, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Because someone else was on that boat. Someone Tessa trusts. And the powerful family preparing to buy her home may have spent years making sure nobody ever discovers what really happened. Between a crumbling family inn, an unfinished summer list, a love triangle built on buried guilt, and a secret capable of destroying two families, Tessa must decide whether uncovering the truth is worth losing everything she thought her future would be. Because sometimes growing up means discovering that the life you planned was never really yours. And sometimes the only way forward is to stop living for the person who never got the chance.
New story 路 0 savedRomanceWe Were Never Just Friends
Nora Vale has spent years believing there is one rule that can keep the most important person in her life from ever becoming another person she loses. Never date your best friend. Cal Hayes agreed to that rule when they were children. He also broke it in his heart almost immediately. For years, Nora and Cal remain inseparable, hiding behind friendship, inside jokes, birthday floor plans, rooftop debriefs, and a Pact neither of them is brave enough to question. Nora believes Cal is the one person who has never left her. What she does not know is that he has also been keeping the secret that could destroy them. Letters from the mother Nora believes abandoned her. A mother who never stopped writing. A father who made choices Nora was never allowed to know about. And Cal, caught between love and loyalty, convinced that protecting Nora means deciding which truths she can survive. When the secrets finally come apart, friendship is no longer enough to save them. College separates what childhood kept tangled. New relationships begin. Trust fractures. Family lies surface. Ambition turns dangerous. And just when Nora and Cal finally learn that loving someone does not give you the right to control their choices, injury threatens the future Cal has spent his entire life building. They have loved each other for years. But loving each other was never their hardest problem. The hardest part is learning how to stay without holding too tightly, tell the truth before fear edits it, and choose each other without demanding a guarantee that neither of them will ever leave. Because the rule was always a lie. They were never just friends.
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Young Adult FantasyThe Boy Who Measured Thunder
A quiet student can measure thunder before it happens, making him the only person who can find a storm that steals children.
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