From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author L A Cotton, comes a slow burn, friends-to-lovers romance. Angst... drama... friendship... and football. Will you survive senior year?Poppy Ford has been in love with her best friend forever.But she's firmly in the friend zone and fears she may never get out.Aaron Bennet has been dreaming of a football scholarship forever.But he's not the Rixon Raiders star player, and he never will be.While Aaron is focused on proving himself, Poppy is hoping he'll finally wake up and see what's right in front of him.He doesn't want to lose his best friend.She doesn't want to lose senior year to a boy who doesn't want her.But fate has other ideas for them.And when hearts get broken and dreams get shattered, will their friendship be strong enough to survive?Or will the ties that bind them finally unravel?

An unforgettable debut novel from an award-winning writer: a lively, daring ghost story about a teenage ghost who falls in love with a writer who doesn't know she exists.In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she's been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants. Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing—the impossible love of a teenage ghost for a woman who can't see her and doesn't know she exists. As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George's case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century...

Alice Daniels has a problem. Her reflection keeps misbehaving when she looks in the mirror—and the longer she ignores it, the harder it tries to get her attention. On her eighteenth birthday, she learns why: she is a huntress, someone gifted with the power to enter mirrors and the magical world that exists beyond. But with this power comes immense responsibility, for in the Mirror Realm lurks an evil that has infected the human race for centuries: demons. It is up to her and her three huntress sisters—with the help of one handsome and overbearing protector—to hunt and banish this evil one demon at a time, thereby keeping the chaos in check. But when an ancient god pays Alice a visit that turns deadly, it is clear the Mirror Realm is more than it seems, and she soon finds herself in a race against time to save the life—and soul—of the one man the gods are determined to never let her have.The Last Huntress is a story of redemption and...

Find love was the least of Queen's issue. She wanted to have fun, be happy on her own term. Widowed with two children in University, it was her time to live. And it seemed that the young man who has set his eyes on her was going to give her exactly what she was looking for.One can not run away from destiny. Jermaine knew the woman sitting was wife material. To get her to agree was the most difficult task of his life. Women fell for him, wanted him to wifey, them. Queen was a different kind of woman. Sexual and sensual. She drove him nuts.

Unknown Love is the journey of two people, Erin Johnson and Peyton Alexander, who want the classic fairytale but lack the blueprint for what to do when love gets real. After spending their first summer together, Peyton knew that Erin was her soulmate, even if it didn't seem like it at the time. Though they ultimately go their separate ways, Peyton is unable to forget about Erin. After not speaking for more than two years, Peyton reaches out to reconcile with Erin. Uncertain of what to expect, they agree to meet in person one last time. When faced with an ultimatum, Peyton reflects on how her feelings for one person have impacted every choice she has made in love. After much fear and trepidation, Peyton and Erin make a decision that could change their lives forever. Unknown Love counters the notion that stories of queer people of color are often suppressed or eliminated and that lesbian relationships evolve quickly. It highlights a community often...

Some things are just meant to be.Fate intervenes when Adam enters DeLux Cafe one night. Amongst the crowd of Speed Daters, there is one person who sets his soul on fire.Ella signed up for speed dating on a whim. Her carefully made plans start to unravel as her illness intensifies and she finds herself falling for the mysterious Adam.Thrust into a world she doesn't understand, can Ella accept the truth about herself or will Adam be too late to save her?Adam is book sixteen in the Speed Dating with the Denizens of the Underworld shared world, filled with a sexy shifter, a mysterious human, and more.

All she wanted was a new hobby. Now she's responsible for an entire universe. Gelda is an immortal person in a higher realm who's trapped in a dull life that just won't end. It's not just her gadgets that are past their expiry dates and breaking. She's frail and weary, and desperately in need of a rebirth. When an opportunity comes along to play the vintage creation game Cosmo Dome, Gelda hopes it's the answer to her woes. The goal is to craft and care for a biosphere, but Gelda soon discovers she's got the glitchy Universe model. What starts out as a bit of fun turns into an epic mission. Help from experts and playing in Divine Intervention mode may be the winning game strategy to save the Universe, but there are other forces at play that weren't part of the game plan. Several cups of kerai later, things aren't much better, but Gelda's got nothing better to do with her time. With strong female leads and plenty of...

A PRINCESS ON THE RUNA DEVIOUS WITCH IN PURSUITA COVETED FAE THRONEDraven the Witch is on the cusp of controlling Faevenly, and all seems lost for Gabriela and her band of allies. In a desperate move to regroup, they abandon Strong Haven and head for the Sublands. Along the way, Gabriela discovers hidden truths about her fae ancestors coupled with frightening warnings about her future. But there is more for her to learn.A secret coven of fae witches may have valuable information about Draven. If she can find them, it could give Faevenly a fighting chance against the deadly witch. If not, she could lose everything. Either way, Gabriela must rise up to her true potential to defeat Draven. And the only way for that to happen is to combine the power of both her fae and human bloodlines. Even if it means sacrificing the one who has her heart in the process.Fae Rising is book four in the Fae Bloodlines Series and features enemies-to-lovers, impossible...

Monsters are evil, so why does Jake want to rescue one? Tobias can't remember why he was locked inside Freak Camp when he was five. All he knows are the camp rules: Other monsters are not your friends. Never disobey the guards. Don't expect anything to get better. The world is safer with him behind these iron-reinforced walls. But then he meets a hunter's son who defies all the rules. Jake is not just the only bright spot in his world but proof that goodness exists. The heir to a long line of monster hunters, Jake's only purpose is to stamp out evil. He carries his faith that all monsters are evil to the government-run Freak Camp, where shy, sweet-natured Tobias shakes up all he's ever known and shifts his purpose from hunting monsters to protecting one. Two lonely boys, damaged in different ways, find themselves drawn together despite the odds. Freeing Tobias into a world where he can define his own rules...