Mia Kerick

I'm Not in Love

C. Kennedy

Bryan was a bully, until one morning he wakes up a different person—helpful and kind. But Scott, Bryan's former victim, is not convinced.

The Red Sheet

Timmy feels betrayed when longtime friend Ben denies his feelings. If they can find forgiveness, they may be able to move forward together.

Not Broken, Just Bent

The Scarecrow & George C

When hippie hopeful Kale and Julian, a transgender girl, meet at a human rights organization, attraction, teenage awkwardness, and reluctant empathy collide. But both have issues to face before friendship—or more—can grow.

My Crunchy Life

High school senior Lanny Keating has it all. A three-sport athlete at Lauserville High School looking at a college football scholarship, with a supportive family, stellar grades, boy band good looks... until the fateful day when it all falls apart. Seventeen-year-old Trevor Ladd has always been a publicly declared zero and the high school badboy. Abandoned by his mother and sexually abused by his legal guardian, Trevor sets his sights on mere survival. Lanny seeks out Trevor's companionship to avoid his shattered home life. Unwilling to share their personal experiences of pain, the boys explore ways to escape, leading them into sexual experimentation, and the abuse of illegal drugs and alcohol. Their mutual suffering creates a lasting bond of friendship and love. When the time finally comes to get clean and sober, or flunk out of high school, only one of the boys will graduate, while the other spirals downward into addiction. Will Lanny and Trevor find the strength to battle their demons of mind-altering substances as well as emotional vulnerability? Clean takes the reader on a gritty trip into the real and raw world of teenage substance abuse.

Clean

Raine O'Tierney

A childhood event robbed Renzy of the ability to speak, and he’s happy in his isolation—until he meets wealthy and glamorous siblings Seven and Morning Moreaux-Maddox. The three teens embark on the trip of a lifetime to learn the cause of Renzy’s mutism.

Sound of Silence

College junior Liam Norcross is a hero. He willingly, even eagerly, risks his life to save a stranger as a murderous, deranged shooter moves methodically through the darkened theater on the Batcheldor College campus, randomly killing innocent men, women, and children. The stranger he saves is college freshman Jason Tripp. Jase loses everything in the shooting: his girlfriend, who dies on the floor beside him, and his grip on emotional security. He struggles to regain a sense of safety in the world, finally leaving college to seek refuge in his hometown. An inexplicable bond forms between the two men in the chaos and horror of the theater, and Liam fights to bring Jase back to the world he ran away from. When Jase returns to school, they're drawn together as soulmates, and soon Liam and Jase fall into a turbulent romantic relationship. However, the rocky path to love cannot be smoothed until Jase rescues his hero in return by delving into his shady past and solving the mystery of Liam's compulsion to be everybody's savior.

The Art of Hero Worship

High school senior Kalin (Lennon) Macready knows several facts for certain: John Lennon is his hero. Beaumont Finley Danforth (Fin) is his best friend. And-this is the complicated one-he feels more for Fin than mere friendship. For weeks, Lennon pesters Fin, who like Lennon admits to questioning his sexual orientation, for a commitment to spend twenty-four hours together exploring "the gay side of life." Fin reluctantly agrees. Each boy will seek to answer the daunting question, Am I gay? Lennon pre-plans the day, filling the hours with what he assumes "gay life" is all about: shopping for fashionable clothing, indulging in lavish dessert crepes, boogying to Taylor Swift's "Shake it Off", and yes, listening to show tunes. However, Lennon quickly realizes that in creating his plan he has succumbed to the most common and distorted of gay stereotypes. Can he be gay and not fit them? And more importantly, is it possible that spending one very hard day and night together will help Fin accept that he's gay, too? If so, maybe Lennon has a shot at winning the heart of the boy of his dreams. "A Hard Day's Night" is an amusing young adult contemporary romance about two boys who seek to discover if they must fulfill stereotypes to be together. In the end, maybe all you need is love.

A Hard Day's Night

As kids, Eric was the prince to Joey's Disney princess. But when Joey is bullied in middle school, Eric must decide which side he'll stand on... and both teens will face the consequences of that choice for years to come.

The Princess of Baker Street

Determined to experience the wild things "normal" teenagers do, high school seniors Cady LaBrie and Cooper Murphy set out to check off items on their bucket list in the 48 hours before graduation. When high school dropout Eli Stanley joins them, they all face new questions about love and friendship.

The Weekend Bucket List

For Callie Canter being in the in-crowd is the difference between survival and becoming a target. Staying off the radar is priority. If Jayden Morrissey can get through his fifth year unnoticed, a future living as the person he was born to be is possible. Yet love is love, and when you fall hard enough, intentions crumble and secrets are revealed.

All Boy

Dario's cool perfection and immaculate style contrast with Philippe's awkward scruffiness, waking a desire Philippe thought was gone.

Out of Hiding

Kai is free-spirited and sexually aware; Jamie is dark and bad-tempered. With music, Kai helps Jamie overcome an abusive past and find love.

Intervention

After a hard life filled with experiences he'd rather not remember but can't forget, Brett Taylor decides he doesn't need anyone or anything. He gets a job at a bar in a nothing little town where he can fish and race dirt bikes and hide from the world. So naturally as he's walking across the parking lot at his new job, reminding himself how self-reliant he is, he meets someone he can't shove aside. Brett can't help but admire Cory Butana, the kid who lives above the bar where his father is the principal bartender. Unwanted by either parent, the sweet, personable Cory grew up neglected and hungry for affection. Now he's determined to make something of his life, even if he has to work himself ragged to do it. Cory shouldn't have to suffer like Brett did, and Brett wants to lend a hand. But when their relationship evolves into something Brett isn't ready to need, he reacts... and the consequences may destroy their fledgling future. With scars like theirs, forgiveness is never easy.

Beggars and Choosers

Enjoy these best-selling romantic novels from Mia Kerick! Beggars and Choosers: Brett wants to lend Cory hand. But when their relationship evolves into something Brett isn't ready to need, he reacts... and the consequences may destroy their fledgling future. With scars like theirs, forgiveness is never easy. A Package Deal: Savannah has an agenda: She is looking for a love match for her roommate, Tristan. When she meets Robby, she puts her plan in action. Out of Hiding: Philippe's relationship with Dario leads him to a surprising discovery of his submissive sexual tendencies and a greater sense of self-awareness. But tragedy threatens to destroy the connections Philippe has made and forces him to retreat into the shadows of his past. Random Acts: From a random act of kindness, romance begins to grow, filling all the dark corners of Bradley's empty life—until a random act of violence threatens to take it all away. Bradley must step up and be the man Caleb believes him to be. Caleb rescued him from a life without hope. Can Bradley rescue him in return?

Mia Kerick's Greatest Hits

Justine Laraby and Kemina Lopez are intimate acquaintances yet they have never exchanged so much as a single word. For months, high school senior Justine, and famed model, "Kemina, the Baby Vixen" of Nightingale Lingerie, have been peering at each other across a narrow alley between brownstones in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. This mutual observation soon turns into the exchange of handwritten messages on signs they hold up whenever they come to their bedroom windows. Via this "sign language," a friendship grows, and Justine learns that Kemina is, like her, a high school senior, but with a controlling mother and a modeling career that requires her to maintain an unnaturally thin physique. And through the window, she also witnesses her new friend exercising fanatically, hoarding food, and being physically and emotionally abused by her ambitious mother. Window messages evolve into clandestine meetings and soon a tentative romance blooms. But Justine must come to terms with her own "mommy issues," as well as accept her gender identity and sexual orientation, before she can provide Kemina with the support she needs to survive a family life that resembles a ruthless business transaction. Will Justine be strong enough to throw open the window so Kemina can escape society's suffocating expectations? This Young Adult lesbian romance is comparable to Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters and The Gravity Between Us by Kristen Zimmer.

Come to My Window

Robby's not in the closet because he never guessed he's gay, until he meets Tristan. They'll need courage and strength for a loving future.

A Package Deal

"Sequel to Beggars and Choosers" After struggling through dishonesty, betrayal, and the kind of pasts they'd like to leave behind them, Brett Taylor and Cory Butana are back together and starting to build a new life. Brett has a good job. Cory has started college. But not everything goes the way they planned. Still recovering from the emotional and physical repercussions of a brutal assault, Cory finds himself trapped by his own insecurity and fear, unable to believe that his heart is safe with Brett or that his body is safe without him. On the other hand, Brett has total faith in Cory's love and commitment, even though he still struggles with his own ghosts. With girls flocking to Brett's side and a wannabe-lover lab partner feeding his doubts, Cory can't find a way to tell Brett about the unfinished business that haunts him. If Brett wants to save him, he'll have to see through Cory's deception in time.

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