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Young Adult RomanceMy Tutor Is My Childhood Enemy
Seven years ago, June Marlowe froze on live television. Theo Ashby laughed. At least, that is what June remembers. The humiliating clip turned her worst moment into a town joke, destroyed the friendship she once had with Theo, and made mathematics something she could barely face without remembering that stage. Now seventeen, June has built a new life around art. She has even earned a conditional place at the Calloway Institute of Art and Design in New York. There is just one problem. She needs a B or better in AP Calculus to keep it. And she is failing. Then her mother announces that she has hired the best student tutor in Port Calder. Theo Ashby. The boy June has hated for seven years. Their tutoring sessions begin with insults, rules written on graph paper, and a contract designed to keep everything painfully simple. No talking about Brain Bowl. No touching her sketchbook. Sessions are strictly math. And absolutely no feelings. But the more time June spends across the kitchen table from Theo, the harder it becomes to fit him into the villain she remembers. He notices when she is about to panic. He teaches her mathematics through animation instead of making her feel stupid. He protects her when no one is supposed to notice. And every honest answer between them creates another crack in the story June has believed since she was ten. Because Theo has secrets. He volunteered to become her tutor. He has spent years carrying the truth about what really happened on that television stage. And the anonymous reader who has faithfully supported June's secret webcomic for three years may be much closer to her than she ever imagined. As old footage resurfaces, buried family guilt comes to light, and someone begins manipulating their past for personal gain, June must decide whether she is brave enough to confront the moment that changed her life. Not only to save her future. But to discover whether the boy she spent seven years hating was ever really her enemy at all.
New story · 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’s 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 · 0 savedYoung Adult RomanceThe Boy I Was Never Supposed to Notice
Hazel Adeyemi has spent most of her life knowing exactly how to survive around the Ashfords. See nothing. Hear nothing. And never, ever notice the boy. Theo Ashford is everything Hazel has been taught to avoid. He is rich, reckless, infamous, and suspected of pushing his own mother from the balcony of Ashford House. Hazel knows the story everyone at Ashgrove Academy believes. She also knows it is not the whole truth. Nine months ago, hidden inside the servants’ staircase, Hazel witnessed the moment before Celeste Ashford fell. She saw a man’s hand gripping Celeste’s arm. And on that hand was the Ashford signet ring. Now Theo has returned for senior year, and Hazel has been chosen as the peer mentor responsible for keeping him out of trouble. The closer she gets to the boy everyone calls guilty, the harder it becomes to believe he is the monster they say he is. But Theo is searching for the truth too. And Hazel is hiding the one thing that could change everything. Because in the Ashford family, secrets do not stay buried without a price. And falling for the boy she was never supposed to notice may cost Hazel everything she has spent her whole life trying to protect.
New story · 0 savedFantasy RomanceThe Queen Without a Kingdom
In Orsanne, power belongs only to those who lawfully own the ground—and every use of magic destroys part of it forever. Eleven days after her coronation, Queen Ilva Adarre is stripped of nine million spans by a perfectly legal deed and exiled to a wasteland where she is powerless. But her father’s grave still belongs to her. With only a few feet of earth and the reluctant protection of Kell Sarrowe, a border lord ordered to let her die, Ilva begins uncovering why her father willingly gave away the kingdom. The truth could return her crown—or reveal that Orsanne was never meant to survive another queen.
New story · 0 savedSci-FiEARTH HAS SEVEN DAYS LEFT
Earth has seven days left. Everyone knows exactly when the world will end, and humanity’s only hope is the Aubade—a massive ark built to carry forty thousand people to another world. Then Ada Wren’s nineteen-year-old son wins a berth. There is only one problem. Ada helped build the ship. And she knows it will never survive the journey. As the final countdown begins, Ada uncovers a truth far worse than a hidden defect: the ark was never simply built to save people. The lottery was never truly random. And the people in charge already know exactly what will happen after launch. With her son determined to board and the entire world clinging to the Aubade as its final symbol of hope, Ada must decide whether exposing the truth will save anyone—or destroy the last peaceful days humanity has left. The countdown is real. The ark is the lie.
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