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Sixteen-year-old Annie Montague has another chance at living a normal life after a tragic car accident paralyzes her and kills her best friend. A new, never-before-done-in-the-US operation involves graphing her head on another woman’s body. This risky operation could mean death or a new life with varying side-effects. Side effects that could erase Annie’s memories, alter her hormones, and make her into an entirely different person. Is she willing to risk this for a chance to walk again? A chance to graduate from high school? Have a boyfriend? Or be independent?

Everything is going Jason’s way, and he should be happy. He has slain his tormentors, returned home to his family, and his dream of being magical has finally been achieved. But with his return, so comes the news that his former love is still alive, and she is out to destroy not only Jason, but the entire Warlock nation. To make matters worse, she has now pitted Jason and the entire Warlock nation between two powerful forces. The question he must now answer: To save his people, can he kill the woman he may still love?

Chris Jenkins, alpha werewolf, wants the woman who destroyed his life dead. Then, he finds her imprisoned and beaten by her own family. So, he rescues her instead. Too make things worse, her soul is bound to a grimoire of black magic and he volunteers his pack to protect the book from falling into the wrong hands. Now, Jade has to live with him. It’s the only way to keep his city safe.

Du glaubst, du bist nicht hübsch genug? So geht es Charlotte. Um ihren Schwarm auf sich aufmerksam zu machen, verbiegt sie sich und stolpert blind von einer Panne in die nächste. Das geht Klaus, dem Sohn des Augenarztes, mächtig auf den Zeiger. Er findet, dass sie ihre rosarote Brille unbedingt gegen ein alltagstaugliches Gestell tauschen muss. Gibt es eine Chance für Charlotte, glücklich zu werden, ohne sich verstellen zu müssen?

I’m falling. I’ve done that a lot this year. I’ve fallen for lies. Fallen in love. Now I’m falling through the water in the lake like I’ve done so often before, but this time is different. This time is going to be my last time. For everything. My last breath is rising in a rush of bubbles that hurry to the surface like champagne escaping a bottle. And my last thought...my last thought is of him. Of Kyle. I’ll miss him. I hope he’ll miss me. It’s a strange hope to have for the guy who just murdered me.

Als Lena und ihre Freundinnen ihr zweites Pflichttertial auf der Chirurgie antreten, glauben sie sich gewappnet. Aber in der Chirurgie hat Dr. Thiersch das Sagen - eine taffe Oberärztin mit steiler Karriere. Dr. Thiersch setzt auf Ehrgeiz, sie erwartet Fleiß und eisernen Willen von ihren Untergebenen.

The only thing I hate more than baseball is my father. Now I will do whatever it takes not to think about him, or his God. I’m on my way to pursue my dream of becoming a screenwriter. I don’t know how I’ll get to LA. I don’t know what I’ll do once I’m there. I just know I’m going to do what I want and I’m never going home. The day I walked out that door, I left all that behind. Time to move on to greater things.

Annie Carmichael is excited for the summer. Bonfires, the lake, and peaceful days on the family farm are just what she needs before her hectic senior year begins. Best of all, her family hires a hot new farm hand who seems more than a little interested in her. The calm is shattered when her sister's best friend, Nora, disappears, leaving behind her toddler son. The police are stumped, assuming the young woman simply left Cloverville. Annie's sister knows Nora would never abandoned her child. Annie sets out to discover the truth - one she may not want to really know.

They think they won. The Elite thought it would end at the battle, but I'm taking them to war. I will topple Landon, Michael, and Cole off their thrones, even if it means bringing the system to its knees. Tensions are boiling beneath the surface of Breakbattle Academy. Protests are erupting, the lower classes are fighting back, and the Elites aren’t as invulnerable as they thought. The school is ready to blow. All they need is the right girl to light the match.

Claire is struggling to overcome the murder of her childhood friend and secret crush, Daniel. Everyone else seems to be moving on. The fact that she finds herself alone and drowning on her 16th birthday isn't helping. Neither is thinking she sees Daniel's face in murky water as she mysteriously resurfaces. As Claire and Daniel try to grasp a possible reconnection, other grudge-holding beings have plans of their own. Now, the two of them have to decide if their fleeting relationship is worth the possibility of Claire being trapped on the fringe forever.

Her entire life Claire Brown has lived by the plan - the plan that will help pull her siblings and her family into bigger and better things. She follows a straight and narrow path with her future ever in mind. But she doesn't account for the heart wanting what the heart wants. She can't afford the inconvenience of falling for a guy she's admired since second grade. That sort of thing is for someone else who lives a life that isn't hers. Right?

Beim Eislaufen im verschneiten Central Park treffen und verlieben sich Lexi und Liam. Eigentlich wollen sie die drei Tage bis zu Lexis Abreise nach Deutschland miteinander verbringen - doch dann verliert Lexi das Notizbuch, in das sie Liams Handynummer gekritzelt hatte. Was sie nicht weiß: Liam versucht verzweifelt, sie wiederzufinden - und das in einer großen Stadt wie New York.

Mary Oxendine is on top of the charts - and should be on top of the world. For the past five years, she's gained millions of fans, adoring her every move as she rocks the stage as Mary Bella. But they don't know she's hurting. No one knows just how much of herself she's lost. She's angry. She's bitter. Will she compromise it all for fame, or will she have the courage to face the true music within?

A tortured antihero bound to a brutal contract. A broken heroine with a sharp tongue. A relationship that could save them both if she’ll allow it. From Jordan Grant comes an enemies-to-lovers, 94,000-word romance that takes the listener on a wild ride of epic clap-backs, grade-A dirty talk, addiction, and loss.

Everyone in the world seems to be crazy for Liam Hanks, a teenage boy with a swoony singing voice that melts everyone's hearts. Me? I could do with a little less Liam. Too bad Dad (who happens to be our city mayor) had to choose Liam as this year's Fourth of July concert celebrity. Even worse? I'm the one in charge of making sure Liam stays out of the news.

Welcome to Breakbattle Academy. The first school of its kind, where survival of the fittest is not a saying, it's your reality. Ruled by those who are elite in name, beauty, and cunning, Breakbattle takes the war of the classes to a whole new level. The next four years of my life will be a fight the likes of which I can't yet comprehend, but first, I have to survive orientation week.

Manhattan, 2118: Im Penthouse des höchsten Wolkenkratzers der Welt feiern die Reichen und Schönen eine rauschende Party. Für fünf von ihnen wird nach dieser Nacht nichts mehr so sein wie zuvor. Die wunderschöne Avery, die intrigante Leda, die verführerische Eris, die verzweifelte Rylin, der ehrgeizige Watt - einer von ihnen wird den Abend nicht überleben. Der süchtig machende Trilogie-Auftakt zu Katharine McGees Beautiful Liars entführt in ein gefährliches Netz aus Liebe und Lügen. Glamouröser als Gossip Girl, herzzerreißender als Pretty Little Liars!

Elise Blath lives a normal life, in a normal town, with a normal family. Everything is routine and expected on the coast of Hemlock, Oregon. One day changes this all when she receives a letter and discovers that a deep secret has been hidden from her, her whole life. At a crossroads, she must decide what she is going to do. Have things stay the way they always have been or go on the adventure her heart has always been yearning for.

When my mother decided to pull me out of school, I didn’t say anything. When she homeschooled me, isolated me, kept me fearful of my peers, I followed along. When she packed me up and sent me across the country to live with my grandmother in the one-stoplight town of Lee Vines, I did as she said. But now that she’s left me here I’m on my own. I can make my own decisions. Make my own mistakes. And that includes if I let in the four boys that live next door.

A short story about falling for someone unexpectedly while studying abroad.