by Amir Abrams (2012)
Falling obsessively in love with Sincere Lewis, Kamiyah Nicols begins watching Sincere constantly, hacking into his online accounts and straining her own relationships with friends and family to assuage her growing anxieties.
edited and with a story by Stephanie Perkins
Summer is the perfect time for love to bloom, and these short stories of teenagers facing the confusing maze of first love will have you dreaming of sunset strolls by the lake. The selections range from heartfelt to outlandish, as the characters find passion in some very unexpected places.
Ni-Ni Simone
With a bootylicious body like Beyonce and a face that would put any top model to shame, Toi McKnight has all the cuties coming her way. Who could blame them? She was always rocking the latest fashion trends and hanging at every bangin’ party in the city. But all that came at a price, and now Toi McKnight is the seventeen-year-old mother of a baby boy.Between bills to pay and adult responsibilities to meet, she’s got zero time for sizzling gossip, chilling with her friends or doing the things she used to. So when unexpected sparks start flying between her and six-foot-two, deliciously fine Harlem, Toi knows she’s got to dead any chance of a relationship fast since he doesn’t date teenage mothers—and she’s vowed to never love again. But every time Toi tries to cut Harlem loose, she falls harder for him. And all the other drama in her life doesn’t help the situation any, especially when her son’s father comes back around. Toi tries to do the right thing, but doing the right thing just may put her on heartbreak express for good.
Deborah Fletcher Mello
World famous MMA champion Zachary Barrett has returned to his home in Phuket, Thailand, and his elite training camp, Revolution. Thanks to his twin brother, a renowned pro trainer in Colorado, Zachary is primed and ready for his next title bout--but his toughest match may be with the sports journalist assigned to write an expose on him. Not only is she gorgeous, she's after a well-guarded secret that Zach soon realizes makes her off limits in every way ... It's true that Kenzie Monroe has an ulterior motive for pursuing Zachary. The half-Asian beauty believes he's connected to her estranged father, a former MMA fighter who disappeared years ago. And the more Zachary avoids her, the more determined she is--and the hotter their game of cat and mouse becomes ... until they both surrender. But as lust, love, and friendship combine, Zachary knows he has to answer all of Kenzie's questions--because outside of the ring, the heart makes the rules ...
Héctor Aguilar Camín
"I have been a man of five women" confesses the historian Justo Adriano Alemán to his young confidant, the narrator of this novel. His words open the door to a private world full of passion and secrecy.