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Genre: Contemporary

Word Count: 73, 000

ISBN: 978-0-3695-1024-2

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Because No One Noticed by C. Lee McKenzie

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Five juniors at Las Animas High have a long history together. They love, dislike, or tolerate each other depending on the day. Occupied with class assignments, career choices, family disharmony, and the usual teen turbulence, none of them thinks...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 77, 200

ISBN: 978-0-3695-1004-4

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

The Mass by Natalie Blank

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After losing his entire football team in a mass shooting, 18-year-old Daniel struggles to process his emotions. He joins an online support group and connects with Maya. A bullet wound has ruined Maya’s gymnastics career, but she’s determined...
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Genre: Contemporary Time Travel 

Word Count: 60, 300

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0978-9

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Going Back for Jojo by Carrie Beamer

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Returning to 1981 to save your brother who has eaten himself into a confinement cell—also known as his bedroom—has unforeseen consequences that lands Dessy Ortega in an epic mess.After a dirty tackle shatters his leg along with his football...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 116, 000

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0942-0

Editor: Lisa Petrocelli

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Love Me, Love Me Not

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Can I love my enemy, the bully who tormented me?How can I not?I'm addicted—pulled in by their promises, lured by their darkness.Maybe there's more to the monster I've vilified.I'll take the risk and give them my heart...LOVE ME, LOVE ME NOTDark,...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 52, 700

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0944-4

Editor: CA Clauson

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Willow by Susan Thomas

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She stumbles out of a wheat field on a hot September afternoon, torn, battered, and in a state of shock—but who is she? Daniel calls her Willow and is determined to protect her from her past. Despite the horrific memories that plague her, Willow...
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Genre: Teen Romance

Word Count: 70, 400

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0931-4

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

The Hanging Night by Sasha Hibbs and Christina Hooker

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The Threads of Fate, 1 When a sad turn of fate takes Josephine Blair to the small town of Bridgeport, West Virginia, she meets and falls for the devious and cunning Caius Duke. Her life blooms in both wonderful and terrifying ways.Together, Josephine and...
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Genre: Contemporary

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ISBN: 978-0-3695-0922-2

Editor: Jessica Ruth

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Rattlesnake by C. Lee McKenzie

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The desert town of Rattlesnake isn’t a destination. It’s a last resort. Seventeen-year-old Jonah Guthrie’s aunt sold their home in New England and fled to this place to escape the humiliation of his dad’s indictment for...
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Genre: Contemporary Teen Romance

Word Count: 60, 700

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0901-7

Editor: CA Clauson

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Lucky Enough by Andie L. Smith

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When seventeen-year-old Alex’s dad dies, it feels like her entire world stops—only it doesn’t. Her family moves on as if nothing happened, and Alex feels pressured to do the same. She starts dating the quarterback of the football team,...
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Genre: Teen Romantic Suspense

Word Count: 85, 000

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0872-0

Editor: CA Clauson

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

My Murder Year by Kate Larkindale

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Seventeen-year-old Stas Nonu has nothing more to worry about than looking like an oversized pumpkin in the bridesmaid dress her mother picked out for her wedding to her long-time partner, Mama K. Her father’s newfound religious beliefs are annoying...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 53, 600

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0873-7

Editor: CA Clauson

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Summer at Pine Lake by Alyssa Delle Palme

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After the death of her beloved grandmother, Sarah Williams, an 18-year-old aspiring writer and recent high school graduate, goes to her grandma’s cottage on Pine Lake. Sarah spent many happy childhood years in their cozy cabin nestled in the...
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Genre: Fantasy 

Word Count: 68, 200

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0878-2

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

The Enchanting Rise of Miranda Stone by A.D. Brazeau

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The Emergence Duology, 2 16-year-old Miranda, and her friends, Neeta and Billie, have fled New Orleans, heading toward a future no one is sure of.In Colorado the trio meet up with Miranda’s aunt, along with another witch looking to shake things up...
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Genre: Speculative YA Fiction

Word Count: 53, 900

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0834-8

Editor: CA Clauson

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

The Years Between Us by Cheyanne Young

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When Emma Fitzgerald said she needed a break, she didn’t mean in the time continuum. After losing her boyfriend to her mortal enemy, Emma heads to Granny’s house for the summer to do some good old fashioned sulking. When she wakes up, she...
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Genre: Gay Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 28, 800

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0830-0

Editor: Lisa Petrocelli

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

His Star by Eliza Douglas

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Cody Freeman, a blue-eyed blond-haired economics student, drops out of college to chase his dreams of becoming a drummer. After a gig, he unwinds with a jog in Hyde Park and saves Prince Aki Chan, an awkward geeky electronics enthusiast, from a lethal...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 87, 600

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0819-5

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Flippin' Skaters by Teresa Richards

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They say it’s best to be yourself. Debatable.Sixteen-year-old Aspen’s unruly red hair is the only thing wild about her, and she’s regularly overshadowed by both her roller-derby-star sister, and her cheer-captain bestie. But the...
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Genre: Paranormal Romantic Suspense

Word Count: 80, 300

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0776-1

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Latent by Chandra Selene

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Signs, spells, sigils… Will they be enough?Something is wrong at Sibley High School, and junior Eunice “Niecy” Banks is sure it has everything to do with the irresistible new girl, Laila Collins. Apparently, she's hell-bent on...
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Genre: 

Word Count: 50, 000

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0753-2

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Missing by Susan Thomas

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Becky May goes missing on her sixteenth birthday and only her cousin Madison knows how and why. The police investigate until the trail runs cold, but as the months go by with no word from her cousin, Madison becomes frantic with worry.Madison’s...
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Genre: Contemporary LGBT Romance

Word Count: 70, 840

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0693-1

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

The Magical Summer of Miranda Stone by A.D. Brazeau

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The Emergence Duology, 1 A teenage runaway, New Orleans, 90s alt ballads, and emerging magical powers—this summer is shaping up to be anything but normal. 16-year-old Miranda Stone wants to be a typical teenager, but when she, and women around the...
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Word Count: 45, 370

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0683-2

Editor: Jessica Ruth

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Just Like Us by Elizabeth Arroyo

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Seventeen-year-old Luca has a credit card, a gun, and an ugly pink suitcase on its last legs—he also has a plan. He'll hold Danny's credit card for ransom and use the money to get out of the city, return the gun to its rightful owner and hope he...
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Genre: Time Travel Romance

Word Count: 63, 800

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0670-2

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

The After Times by Christine Potter

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The Bean Books, 5 Spring, 2020: High school senior Gracie Ingraham hasn’t time traveled in ages. It’s crazy enough living through the scary first months of the Covid pandemic, going to school on Zoom, and being quarantined with your best...
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Genre: Dark Contemporary

Word Count: 69, 730

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0617-7

Editor: Audrey Bobak

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Beauty and the Freak by Jackie Bateman

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TWO ABANDONED REBELS. ONE EXPLOSIVE CONNECTION.When Robbie faces his community after years of hiding in the shadows, he’s branded a monster. His condition means that his body is freakishly muscular, a bodybuilder gone wrong, where every shifting...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 68, 180

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0510-1

Editor: Lisa Petrocelli

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

The Sea Became Restless by Megan Gaudino

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Sixteen-year-old Nixie sucks at being the daughter of a cult-leader. Forbidden to leave the beached boat where her father, his three wives, and their twenty followers pretend to have created Utopia, Nixie stares at the distant shoreline with a hunger...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 66, 100

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0511-8

Editor: Audrey Bobak

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Fix You by JC Doan

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Cade Henson was ready for a change. After high school, he’d agreed to be a bouncer for his sister’s club, not a dancer. Yet over the course of a year, he’d watched his own life slowly spiral out of control. Until the night he decided it...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 63, 380

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0496-8

Editor: CA Clauson

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Awareness by Amanda Lance

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Eighteen-year-old aspiring painter Eliza Harper doesn’t believe in hell. When she wakes up in the middle of surgery, however, she learns just how wrong she was.After attending a party with her three best friends, the night ends in a terrible...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 28, 635

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0497-5

Editor: Jessica Ruth

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

A Mad Awakening by Sasha Hibbs

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The dead are meant to stay dead. Eighteen-year-old Albert Frank Young knows because he’s one of them. He had his life planned out with intentions of attending college in the fall with his brilliant girlfriend, Mary Shelley. What he didn’t...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 78, 720

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0460-9

Editor: Audrey Bobak

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Double Negative by Susan Marshall

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Injured competitive swimmer Reece never wanted to be Vice Prez of West Hill High. It was her brother Jamie’s idea, just something to do until she could get back into the pool.She knew that Jamie—who led his campaign with a striptease...
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Genre: Contemporary

Word Count: 77, 250

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0421-0

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Shattered by C. Lee McKenzie

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A Story of Betrayal and Courage Nineteen-year-old Libby Brown is on her way to the winter Olympics for her shot at the Gold. But on a last practice run, an out-of-bounds snowboarder collides with her, and she wakes up in a hospital unable to move her...
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Genre: Contemporary

Word Count: 70, 500

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0413-5

Editor: Audrey Bobak

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Slowly Falling by Rose Phillips

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Chloe uses work to hide from the world, but she can’t escape her thoughts. Since the death of her track-star boyfriend, her panic attacks are sneaking up on her. A lot. And while others may think her odd behavior is because of his loss, the truth...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 35, 430

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0389-3

Editor: Audrey Bobak

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Triple Threat by Lara Sleath

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Sometimes secrets can lead to blackmail...   Charli Reily needs to be a Broadway star. It’s the only way she can escape her sucky new life in the crappiest part of Vancouver. Here, her only friend is Logan, the boy with the biceps from...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 65, 400

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0344-2

Editor: Jessica Ruth

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Signs We Don't See by Carrie Beamer

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Etta Litali has grown accustom to the superstitious behavior that comes along with being in an Italian family. But when her dad begins to spend his nights stealing signs from every city pole within three miles of their home, her house becomes overrun...
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Genre: Alterative Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 72, 000

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0293-3

Editor: CA Clauson

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Chasing the Taillights by Kate Larkindale

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Lucy and Tony share nothing except genes. Tony’s the champion diver destined for greatness. Lucy’s biggest concern is getting Cute Guy from the burger joint to ask her out. After an accident kills their parents, the siblings are forced to...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 48, 030

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0240-7

Editor: Jessica Ruth

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

A Darkness of Wolves by Nicole Bea

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One weekend changed everything for eighteen-year-old Wynrie Lowe, and she's been on a downward spiral ever since. Her moods change from one extreme to the other, happiness to sadness, with nothing in between. Something is very wrong, and she doesn't know...
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Genre:  Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 68, 240

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0173-8

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Keep What Remains by Carrie Beamer

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It’s 1985, MTV and big hair are in full force and sixteen-year-old Megan is navigating her mediocre life inside the bubble her overprotective dad created for her. Just when she thinks her social life’s dead, her best friend Tessa—a...
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Genre: Alternative (LGBTQ+) Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 66, 430

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0160-8

Editor: Audrey Bobak

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Just Me

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Love is in the air...JUST ME is a hand-picked collection of stories about self-discovery and being true to yourself. This LGBTQ+ young adult anthology is not afraid to take on real issues facing today's teens. "Witty, fast-paced, and well written...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 54, 500

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0141-7

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

A Love Story by Jon Ripslinger

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His name’s Michael Panther. He’s seventeen, and a legit high school football star with mega college dreams. But his life’s crumbling. His dad’s dying of cancer. He’s promised to make something of himself and not cause his...
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Genre: Paranormal Suspense

Word Count: 59, 075

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0118-9

Editor: Audrey Bobak

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Evelyn Illustrated by Philip Hoy

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Evelyn Hernandez, 3 Around school, Evelyn Hernandez is known as the Revenge Artist, or la bruja, the witch. She’s the girl who out-bullied her bullies. The one with the long dark hair and blunt cut bangs who only wears dresses and is forever...
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Genre: Paranormal Suspense

Word Count: 33, 440

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0092-2

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Breaking Out by S.E. Walker

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Millennial Child, 2 With each day at Aunt Pippa’s compound, sixteen-year-old Finn James breaks further out of the small, confining box society, and her parents, forced her into at a young age. Spending time with the gifted people her aunt had...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 44, 250

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0090-8

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Perfect's Overrated by Johnelle Rae

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The Perfect Series, 1 If image is everything, does what’s real even matter?By senior year, wannabe chef Sutton “Mac” MacNabb should have learned how to read. Instead, school’s turned him into an expert on bad grades and girls...
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Genre: Contemporary

Word Count: 80, 000

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0063-2

Editor: Audrey Bobak

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Not Guilty by C. Lee McKenzie

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"NOT GUILTY is a compelling, engrossing, and ultimately uplifting and rewarding read. I couldn't tear myself away!"—Cheryl Rainfield, author of Scars, Stained, Hunted and Parallel Visions.A blood-smeared knife. One young man’s word against...
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Genre: Romantic Suspense

Word Count: 68, 000

ISBN:  978-0-3695-0038-0

Editor: Audrey Bobak

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

The Bigfoot Murders by Megan Gaudino

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Seventeen-year-old aspiring detective Fiona Holly can’t decide what’s harder, recovering from a traumatic brain injury, or sabotaging her mom’s reality TV show about finding Bigfoot. Sick of parental neglect and memory gaps deeper than...
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Genre: Time Travel Romance

Word Count: 59, 940

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0030-4

Editor: CA Clauson

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Gracie's Time by Christine Potter

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The Bean Books, 4 October, 1962It's almost Halloween, but something a lot scarier than ghosts is on everyone's mind: nuclear war. After President Kennedy's speech to the nation about the Cuban Missile Crisis, Grace Ingraham overhears her parents' plans...
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Genre: Contemporary Suspense

Word Count: 76, 600

ISBN: 978-1-77339-989-8

Editor: Melissa Hosack

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

The Wanderers by Sarah Barkoff

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When eighteen-year-old Sosie Friedman's mother dies in a horrific car crash, rumors around her small beach town swirl that the accident was really a suicide-plot gone awry. Desperate to prove the gossipers wrong, she digs into her mother’s past and...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 74, 760

ISBN: 978-1-77339-919-5

Editor: Audrey Bobak

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

(Not Quite) The Same Old Song by Lindsey Ouimet

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When her brother relapses—again—and disappears with the rent money, Darcy Andrews is forced to pawn the one thing that means the most to her. Her guitar, Darlene. Suddenly the plus-size teen’s plans for a stress-free summer before...
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Genre: Alternative (MM) Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 49, 620

ISBN: 978-1-77339-892-1

Editor: Audrey Bobak

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Yearning Young by Deidre Huesmann

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Burning Britely, 2 Braeden’s never had to question anything before. He’s always been popular, always had everything handed to him, and always been straight.Then he met Jeffrey Young. Quiet, studious, analytical … a guy.Falling for...
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Genre: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 90, 500

ISBN: 978-1-77339-870-9

Editor: Audrey Bobak

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

The Sidewalk's Regrets by Kate Larkindale

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Seventeen-year-old Sacha McLeod isn’t looking for someone to rock her world. But when she hears the boy in the music store play the guitar, the music thrills her and she falls hard for Dylan and his sound. Sacha finds herself spending less time...
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