Freya and Malachi have been inseparable since they were three. But under the surface, old feelings and unspoken desires have started to simmer. When a party game locks them in a pitch-black bathroom for five minutes, they're forced to confront the tension that's been building for years. In the dark, with no one watching, the line between friendship and something more begins to blur. But when the lights come back on, can they ever go back to the way things were?

(alternatively called: slow burn, vicarious embarrassment, and shenanigans) A girl made of short tempers, clumsy feet and ridiculous amounts of sarcasm has to join forces with her painfully obnoxious neighbour in the name of love (better known as raging teenage hormones). Because when it comes to the wider scheme of things, what's one tiny bargain with the devil? (Spoiler Alert: total chaos.)

Cleo never planned to end up at St. Bernadette's elite all-girls school, but a scholarship drops her right into a world of heiresses and untouchables. She can handle the class divide — what she can't handle is the crush she develops on Celeste, the school's flawless, ice-cold president. When Cleo finally confesses, Celeste's rejection has nothing to do with status: she thinks Cleo is a vampire. Now Cleo has to survive the most cutthroat campus around, clear her name, and somehow stop falling harder for the one girl who'd rather look right through her.

After years living under an abusive stepfather's roof, Emery finally escapes to start over with the birth father she barely remembers. New school, new family, fresh start — she just wants to keep her head down. But on her very first day, the most dangerous boy in school won't stop staring at her. Ronan never stares at anyone — not like this — and now Emery can't decide if she should be flattered or terrified. The answer is probably both.

When the brash, cocky bad boy Jett Mercer comes back to his hometown, he finds that some things shifted while he was gone. Jett has a new neighbor-a shy, smart girl Chloe, who seems to loathe him from the second she spots him through her bedroom window. Curious about the girl who isn't like anyone he's ever met, he calls her Wildcat and sets out to uncover who she really is. Her claws only show for him, but how many layers are hiding under the good girl with a seemingly perfect boyfriend and a strict mother? In small towns, it gets tough to dodge a person. As Jett and Chloe spend more time together, a string of events sets something far bigger in motion-something that will change them both forever. Jett loves the wind through his hair and the rumble from his bike's engine. Chloe stays sheltered in her own little world. What would happen if he showed her there was more to life than all she's seen? What if she begins to see how much she's been missing? Content note: this story includes references to depression and suicide that may upset some readers. Reader discretion is advised.

rumor says that, if you make Park Sunghoon smirk, he'll definitely fall in love with you, seorin did exactly that.

Fractured hearts masked behind sharp tongues. A girl still fighting to be heard. A boy who won't break. Two storms colliding where trust feels almost like a dare. Jiyeon made her name from chaos and defiance - the loud girl with razor comebacks, the one nobody could shame because she'd cut them down first. Ahn, meanwhile, was her opposite: steady, unreadable, a fighter who kept his real thoughts locked behind a wall. When betrayals pile up and violent run-ins at school leave them both burned, their lives begin threading together in the stillest places - study rooms, midnight walks, bruised knuckles and whispered truths. What starts as an unlikely alliance slowly becomes something else. Ahn becomes the first one who doesn't flinch when Jiyeon shows her cracks, and Jiyeon is the first to glimpse the warmth tucked beneath Ahn's stoic mask. They never mean to fall in love; it grows in the spaces between fights, in the jokes after rough days, in how they keep turning up for each other when everyone else vanishes. By the time they understand it, friendship has already become something deeper, and neither one of them knows if it's salvation or just another kind of risk.