WHEN THE STARS FORGOT USSome people enter your life by accident.Some stay because they were always meant to.Elara never expected anything special from her final years of high school.Then Alden walked into her classroom.Quiet. Distant. Impossible to read.And somehow, he ended up sitting right beside her.At first, Elara couldn't stand him.He was too quiet.Too calm.Too good at hiding what he was thinking.But little by little, she began discovering the person behind the silence—the boy who would quietly give up his umbrella so she wouldn't get wet, fix her broken shoe without saying a word, and smile only when he thought no one was watching.And before Elara realized it, the boy she once found annoying had become the person she looked for every morning.But Alden has a past he refuses to talk about.A girl named Sophia.A secret he has carried for four years.And a tragedy that changed his life forever.The closer Elara gets to him, the more she realizes that loving Alden means stepping into a part of his past he desperately wants to leave behind.Because some secrets don't disappear.They wait.And when the truth finally comes to light, Elara will have to decide whether love is enough to survive everything they've been hiding from each other.They met beneath the rain.They fell in love beneath the stars.But some stars were never meant to shine forever.When the Stars Forgot Us is a slow-burn romance about first love, secrets, loss, healing, and two people who find each other when neither of them was looking.

THE SUMMER WE PRETENDEDWhat happens when the girl you invented becomes the girl you can't live without?Ethan Cole has a problem.His father wants him to figure out what he's going to do with his life before the summer ends. So, during one disastrous dinner, Ethan does what any desperate nineteen-year-old would do-He lies.He tells his father he has a girlfriend.Her name?Maya Bennett.The only problem?Maya Bennett is real.And she heard everything.Instead of exposing him, Maya offers Ethan a deal: she'll pretend to be his girlfriend until the end of summer-for a price.There are rules.No unnecessary touching.No kissing.No getting jealous.No asking questions the other person doesn't want to answer.And most importantly:No falling in love.It sounds simple.Until fake dates start feeling real.Until holding hands doesn't feel like pretending anymore.Until the person they were supposed to fool becomes the only person they can be completely honest with.Because sometimes, the most dangerous lie isn't pretending to love someone.It's pretending you don't.THE SUMMER WE PRETENDEDA story about fake love, real feelings, growing up, and finding the courage to choose someone when you don't know what the future holds.Somewhere between the lies and the truth, they found each other.