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Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She's rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she's a true leading lady is in her own writing--in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend and #1 devoted reader. When Tessa is accepted into the creative writing program of a prestigious art school, she's excited to finally let her stories...

Escaping a life marked by loss, young Julia DeSmit leaves for college--the perfect place to reinvent herself--but one wrong decision changes her forever, and she returns to her grandmother's farm, weary and defeated.

A week before she is to become a polygamist's fifth wife, Hanna meets Daniel, an enigmatic stranger from outside the secluded community of Clearhaven, who challenges her to question her fate and to follow her own will.

Thirteen-year-old Venus Black, a straitlaced, straight-A student is the last person anyone would expect to get in trouble, but when she is arrested for committing a shocking crime, it is clear that there was more going on in Venus's world than anyone knew. When she is released from a juvenile detention center five years later, she assumes a new identity in the hope of escaping the pain of her past, the mother that disappointed her, and her criminal...

When the daughter of a young single mother runs away at sixteen, she and the child's grandmother fears the worst. However two years later the child returns, a mess and a shell of her former self. She has been stuck in a religious cult for two years, and has been brainwashed into thinking that she is not worthy of God's love. After an argument with her mother she runs off again, and it is up to her and the child's grandmother to find her daughter once...

Katrina Yoder has the voice of an angel, but her Amish parents believe singing is prideful vanity, and when she wins a ticket to sing in Hollywood, her life is turned upside down.

Every touch has its price Layla Shaw is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life'no easy task for a seventeen-year-old who's pretty sure things can't get worse. Her impossibly gorgeous best friend, Zayne, is forever off-limits thanks to the mysterious powers of her soul-stealing kiss. The Warden clan that has always protected her is suddenly keeping dangerous secrets. And she can barely think about Roth, the wickedly hot demon prince who...

Struggling with the loss of her parents, who helped haunted souls find peace, Sylvie Mason pursues the mystery, moving closer to the truth of what happened that night as she comes to terms with her family's past.

Alice Bonham thinks she's finally found a balance in her life between the supernatural one, and her normal one with her brother Milo and her best friend Jane. When a tragic accident happens, Alice finds herself once again struggling with a terrible choice. As everything spirals out of control, she has to wonder, will there ever be a place for her in this life?

An epistolary novel uses letters written between teenage friends, refrigerator notes from a crazy mother, and epistles that express the narrator's own internal feelings of self-doubt to weave this bittersweet coming of age story.