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My parents forgot something when they ran…me. After scamming most of our town out of their life savings, my folks disappeared in the middle of the night. Forced to take me in, my estranged aunt and uncle shipped me off to Raven River Academy the first chance they got. In my town, the line between the haves and the have-nots is actually a 12-foot gate that keeps the unwanted where they belong. Nothing could unite the two factions until I set foot on campus. For the first time in our history, they all agree on one thing: I must pay for my father’s sins.

Der zweite Teil der emotionalen Small-Town-Romance-Serie von Bestseller-Autorin Laura Pavlov Willkommen zurück in Magnolia Falls ! Hier lebt River, der stets übellaunige Anwalt mit der schwierigen Vergangenheit. Diese zeigt sich äußerlich nur noch in seinen vielen Tattoos. Ansonsten führt er ein ruhiges, bescheidenes und zurückgezogenes, aber glückliches Leben. Ab und zu hat er One-Night-Stands, aber er will sich auf keinen Fall auf eine feste Beziehung einlassen.

Tall Horse and Joseph Little Eagle are rivals for Nila, with whom they have grown up. In a poignant love story, they face not only the normal conflicts of a triangle situation, but are torn by the pressures innate in reservation life—the fierce loyalty to their own as against the lure of the outside. And, in a sense, it is the outside world that decides their fate.

Hope Chambers has a major problem. She's spent the entirety of her four years of high school focusing on being perfect—perfect grades, perfect extracurriculars, perfect essays—to the point that she forgot to get a life. And now she's perfectly boring. She's got exactly two weeks before her admissions interview for MIT to spice up her life and get a personality, dammit. And she knows exactly who can help her: soccer star and Mr. Popularity himself, Landon Watkins.

Star football player Jace Rovers has a secret. And not just any secret—a shocking secret.... He writes romance. The kind with swords. And dresses. And kissing. Nobody knows. Not the other kids at Twin River High. Not his overbearing parents. And certainly not the millions of fans who've read his book on the writing platform Scribbles. And that's the way he plans to keep it. Except suddenly one of the other football players grabs his notebook in jest and starts reading a kissing scene out loud...and Jace knows he's busted.

Nineteen-year-old Michelle doesn’t think her summer could get any worse. She’s missing out on the sandy beaches of Mexico to work in her father’s bookstore, her relationship with her mother is complicated, and to top it all off, her coworker is the captain of the nerd patrol. As the replacement guitarist of River Valley’s most popular band, Rainier’s summer is shaping up to be a life-changing one. No longer the shy kid who barely leaves his house, he feels alive on stage. If only he wasn’t stuck working with his boss’ mean-girl daughter.