They say first loves never last but sometimes, they never really end either. When seventeen-year-old Clara Rivers transfers to Maplewood High, she’s got one plan: stay invisible, survive senior year, and move on like she always does. But her plan literally crashes when she spills a caramel latte on Mark Lawson, the school’s golden boy with the kind of smile that could ruin a girl’s peace of mind. What starts as a clumsy accident turns into late-night talks, science projects gone wrong, and a love story that feels like it’s meant to last forever. Until life forces Clara to move again ,this time away from the boy who made her feel seen for the first time. Years later, fate brings them back to the same lake, the same town, the same question: Can love that started in the halls of high school survive the distance of time? Told with humor, warmth, and the ache of growing up, When the Bell Rings is a touching story about first love, last goodbyes, and finding your way back home to the heart that never stopped waiting.

In the dark forests of Silver Ridge, Alpha Damian Blackthorn has lived under a deadly curse for centuries. When Lena Hayes moves into town, his wolf recognizes her but she carries the bloodline of the witch who cursed him. Bound by fate and haunted by blood, their love becomes the only weapon against a darkness that refuses to die. Love was never meant to save them. But destiny doesn’t care who burns.