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Thank You for Applying

Jorie Haywood’s senior year of high school is going precisely according to plan: she’s taking all the AP classes she wanted, she’s the backstage manager of the school musical, and most importantly, she’s just waiting for an acceptance letter to her dream college: the University of Florida. Nothing can ruin these last few months.

That is until she gets waitlisted by UF.

Embarrassed by her failure and anxious to correct it, Jorie throws herself into a competition designed to encourage student involvement in local government to attract the attention of college scouts. If she wins, it might be enough to get UF to reconsider their heinous error. When the musical gets shut down due to a lack of funding, it provides the perfect project topic.

Jorie’s motivation morphs into a frenzy to win by any means, threatening to drive away her project partner and best friend Wesley who doesn’t understand the urgency—after all, she’s been lying to him about her admissions status. It doesn’t make it any easier that she’s pretty sure Wesley likes her, and she’s starting to think she might like him too.

Feeling overwhelmed by all of the balls she’s juggling, Jorie starts to worry about what will happen if she lets any of them drop, realizing that maybe her priorities aren’t what they once were. Maybe part of growing up means that your goals for the future change.

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Line of Succession

Julia Clarke was never supposed to be the Duchess of Graycott. The title was going to pass from her uncle to her father to her sister Jane, and Jane’s future kids would have a shot at the title before she ever would. But when her parents and sister die suddenly in a train accident, Julia finds herself at Lithilea Preparatory Academy, a boarding school designed to prepare future dukes and duchesses to rule their respective duchies of Lithilea alongside the royal family.

Julia faces an uphill climb in more ways than one. Graycott is a minor province, and as such, doesn’t garner much respect from the others. Add to that the fact that Julia isn’t as willing to play nice and go along with the others as Jane did, and Julia finds herself the enemy of many. Feeling ostracized and ill-prepared, she struggles to find where she belongs in a position and a school she was never meant to be in the first place.

But when reports reveal that the train accident wasn’t an accident after all, Julia becomes determined to figure out which of her supposed fellow countrymen plotted the attack that robbed her of her family and forced her into this role. The duplicity and manipulation surrounding her make it difficult to see people for who they are—and for who they’re not.

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The Waves at My Window

Maris lives on a beautiful, remote island where she has been welcomed lovingly by the open arms of the community that could easily be called home. Except that it isn’t home; but Maris doesn’t know where home is.

Having experienced a rocky sea journey, she now suffers from a severe case of amnesia. She remembers nothing prior to the year she has spent on this island.

Hopelessness about her memory is beginning to set in when a mysterious paddler appears on the island and claims she’s the lost heir of a small nearby nation under tyrannical rule. He’s desperate to bring her back to save the country, but her best friend is increasingly skeptical of the paddler’s intentions. She finds herself torn not only between her search for her identity and her love of her new home, but also between the guy who might have all the answers she needs and the guy who gave her a name when she didn’t have one.

Maris finds herself doubting everything she thought she knew–which isn’t much–and worrying about what might be true–which seems unlikely. Should she choose to stay within the safety of the island in anonymity, or should she take a risk that she might be someone truly noteworthy?

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ADULT BOOKS

Ten Years from Now

April Corwin had a plan for her life, and it definitely didn’t look like this. She imagined herself pursuing higher education, living in Boston, and working as a history professor. In one word, she imagined success. She definitely had not imagined that ten years after graduating from high school, she would be working as a high school history teacher in her hometown and struggling to complete a Master’s degree online. So, she definitely is not looking forward to her ten year reunion where she’s sure she’ll find out that all of her classmates have passed her by.

But when getting stuck planning her own reunion means teaming up with her own high school crush Ryan Bennings, April starts to think that maybe the reunion won’t be such a bad thing. Maybe, just maybe, it will give her the second chance she never thought she’d get with Ryan, a man who is now living her dream life in Boston. It also gives her a chance to reconnect with her high school best friend Eli whom she hasn’t seen since graduation.

April finds herself feeling conflicted about everything her life was supposed to be, everything it isn’t, and everything it has become. Is Ryan really the perfect guy, or is he just a high school fantasy? Does she enjoy being a high school teacher, or does she still want to pursue professorships? Did she really get stuck in her hometown, or does she enjoy being close to loved ones?

And what are these feelings she’s developing for Eli?

April’s ten year reunion might not be as miserable as she expects, and it might just provide her with the answers to all of her questions and what it means to follow her heart.

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