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Despite being a child prodigy, Colin Singleton is not good at a lot of things. He’s not good at making friends. He’s not good making the transition from child prodigy to adult genius. He’s not good at resisting girls named Katherine. He’s not good at preventing them from breaking his heart. Nineteen times.

After being dumped by Katherine 19 (K-19), Colin is devastated. He can’t understand why K-19 dumped him and wallows in his room for days, trying to figure out a mathematical formula to understand this, until his best friend Hassan pushes him out of the house and on a road trip across the country.

In Gutshot, Tennessee, Colin discovers the fallibility of his own memory, as he tries to reconcile the truth of being dumped nineteen times all by girls named Katherine. As he faces the end of the summer and perhaps the end of being a child prodigy, Colin realises that you can’t completely erase the past, because it helps you grow. Read More →

Haven is a regular, nerdy high school student when she’s chosen along with two of her classmates for an internship at an upscale hotel in Chicago.

As Haven becomes acquainted with Aurelia, the hotel’s young, stylish owner, Lucian, her devilishly handsome right hand man, and their glamorous, gorgeous staff, called The Outfit, she discovers that things aren’t exactly as they seem.

When she starts receiving strange instructions in an old notebook, Haven discovers that her and her friends weren’t just recruited for an internship, but to join an evil organization, one that is dead-set on recruiting them to their efforts. But as Haven’s time at the Lexington Hotel runs out, she has to make a decision between an easy life or one filled with hardship.
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In Hysteria, Sixteen year old Mallory Murphy killed her boyfriend, Brian, one night, but can’t remember the details. After being let off for defending herself, Mallory tries to return to her regular life, but she can’t. Her best friend’s mother doesn’t want her talking to her, she’s being stalked by Brian’s mother everywhere she goes, and her parents hide the kitchen knives from her.

In attempt at a fresh start, Mallory’s parents enrol her in Monroe, a fancy prep school. But the past follows Mallory, and before she knows it her secrets come out and she is ignored and mocked. But as Mallory tries to settle herself into her new school and new life, it seems like Brian’s mother- or his presence- has followed her to Monroe.

Mallory constantly feels someone following her, her room is trashed, and she keeps waking up with bruises on her shoulders. Is Mallory being haunted by the ghost of her boyfriend, or is it all in her mind? Read More →

Lady Ava Averly has finally returned to England, after spending 10 years abroad with her family in India. England is a lot different from what she remembers. As her father remarries, Ava has to figure out a place for herself in her new family at Somerton, their family estate.

After falling in love with Ravi, an Indian revolutionary, Ava struggles to choose between her family’s good name and her desire for independence. She longs to attend Oxford, and get an education, but all her father and stepmother can think of is her upcoming Season. Ada tries to please her new stepmother, but it seems like she has her own plans…

Rose is Ava’s maid, a young girl who aspires to be a musician, but cannot rise above her station to do so. When she finds out about Lady Ava’s affair with Ravi, she does everything in her power to help her.

As Ada and Rose try to adjust to their lives at Somerton, they discover that things aren’t exactly as they seem. Read More →