Collection: Teenage Fiction

The year is 414 of the Xin Dynasty, and chaos abounds. A puppet empress is on the throne. The realm has fractured into three factions and three warlordesses hoping to claim the continent for themselves. But Zephyr knows it's no contest. Orphaned at a young age, Zephyr took control of her fate by ...

Effy has always believed in fairy tales. She's had no choice. Since childhood, she's been haunted by visions of the Fairy King. She's found solace only in the pages of Angharad - a beloved epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, and then destroys him. Effy's tattered copy ...

When mother-daughter grifters set out on their final heist, the job gets dangerously personal... and deadly. For all of Kat's life, it's just been her and her mother, Jamie -- except for forty-eight hours twelve years ago when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in a...

When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday, she knows it's going to be one of her mother's difficult days. Her mother has had another vision. If Amandla wears a blue sheet her mother has loosely stitched as a dress and styles her normally braided hair in a halo around her head, Amandla's fat...

Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year's Day to find himself in the hospital specifically, in the psychiatric ward. Despite the bandages on his wrists, he's positive this is all some huge mistake. Jeff is perfectly fine, perfectly normal, not like the other kids in the hospital with him. But ...

The once tight bond among three sisters, ages fourteen to eighteen, disappears as each deals with a personal setback; but when a letter arrives informing the sisters of a dead uncle and an inheritance they knew nothing about, the news forces them to band together in the face of a sinister family ...

Lucy loves her life at the New Jersey shore. But nothing has been the same since the Big Storm -- the one that tore apart her barrier island home and briefly brought together a local girl like herself and a vacationer like Connor Malloy. When Connor goes back to his life in the city, Lucy is left...

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.

Everything that happened this past summer, and every summer before it, has all led up to this. To now. Every year Isabel spends a perfect summer at her family friends' house. There's the swimming pool at night, the private stretch of sandy beach ...and the two boys. Unavailable, aloof Conrad - wh...