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Everyone knows that if you want to have an incredible Christmas season, you go to Garland, Maine, where the entire town joins in on celebrating Christmas. Well, everyone except me. Every year since my parents’ divorce, they’ve fought to make Christmas at their place the best. Shuffling back and forth between the two and running ragged with all the activities has ruined the holidays every year. So this year, I finally tell them both I’m done celebrating Christmas. And they agree on one condition: I have to show the new guy in town the best Garland has to offer this year.

I’m babysitting two little girls while their mom works and their dad’s deployed. Their mom asked me to keep them busy serving others so they don’t have time to miss their dad. I’m all for it… until I realize the charity she signed us up for is managed by the Scrooge-iest guy in town.

Everyone knows that if you want a Christmas wish to come true, you go to Garland, Maine, and make a wish as the star is placed on top of the tree in Cider Center. And this year, I made an impossible wish–that all of my friends and I would fall in love before the holiday was over.

My junior year was a failure of epic proportions. Like, they needed to create a new grading scale for how badly it went. I have one year left of high school to plan for my future and hopefully have a little fun while doing it.

Emerson Dance is one of the most prestigious dance companies in the country. And I got kicked off the team right before nationals because my curves don’t “fit.” Not their idea of a perfect dancer's body and definitely not their costume. I’m going to enter the competition on my own and show them that every body is a dancer’s body. It will mean practicing in the gym with the bodybuilders, but I can shove my nerves—and my attraction to Carter McCormac—aside long enough to win.

He bullied my sister. Now it’s his turn to pay. Ryker is the top of the Emerson Academy food chain, and he uses his power to remind everyone of just how powerless they are. Until now. When I see him picking on the most innocent girl in school for her weight, I snap. Ignoring him is no longer enough. No, my friends and I are going to make him pay.

Volleyball was my way out. So now, instead of trying to get away from my small town, I’m just trying to escape the pain. I don’t know how, but I went from never-been-kissed to kissing two guys in a week. Somehow I got the attention of the sweet guy with a sunshine smile and Kellum freaking Watts. And now I have to make a choice between the guy who will dream of a different future with me and the one I’ve been dreaming about. The problem is, it’s hard to think of the future when you’re just trying to survive the present.

I have to get out of here. I’m drowning in this small town, in my parents’ tiny house filled with big rules and even bigger anger. And there’s only one thing that can get me out. Volleyball. But Shelby’s out to take everything I’ve worked for away from me over a stupid grudge. She won’t stop at sabotaging my volleyball position. No, she’s out for blood. That means she’ll attack me everywhere it counts. Volleyball, weightlifting, my friendships, and Kellum. I’ve done everything, given everything, sacrificed everything I can to create a future for myself.

I wanted to have the best summer ever. To have my first kiss and finally get my brother’s best friend to notice me. So I talked my best friend Carson into helping. He’d do anything for me, and I’d do the same for him. But somewhere between fake dating and pretending to fall in love with him, I fell for real.

An arranged marriage and a bad boy who breaks all of the rules...My father’s been planning my wedding day for longer than I have. Since I turned 17, he’s sent me on date after date with people from the film industry - producers, directors, actors...I’ve dated - and turned down - them all. But Ryde Alexander is the worst. My only escape is a food delivery boy and a motorcycle my dad would have a heart attack if I got on. But I don’t care. I need to get away, and Ronan is more than happy to take me.

The one thing my parents can’t shelter me from is my heart. I nearly died the summer of my eighth grade year, and ever since then, my parents have done everything they could to keep me healthy. Now I’m a senior, and instead of feeling safe, I’m suffocating.

There are three things I hate: rich people, boys, and Kai Rush. Kai happens to be all three. He and his dad have all the money in the world from the game app they created, and what do they do with it? They buy private helicopters and flaunt their brand new Teslas. Never mind that people like my mom and I work multiple jobs just to keep our crappy apartment and pay for back medical bills because my dad ran scared and left us alone. So when my mom tells me we have a new cleaning job at the Rush’s before school, I’m peeved. When he starts texting me, I’m floored.

I’m a big girl, “plus-sized”, whatever. I’m sick of hearing about it, especially since my doctor diagnosed me with PCOS. So when mean girl Merritt shot her mouth off about how fat people should just lose weight, I couldn’t take it anymore. And now I’ve got a huge problem. To prove curvy girls like me can get happily-ever-afters too, I have to get our school’s quarterback, Beckett Langley, to take me to homecoming. And he doesn’t know I even exist. But it’s not hopeless. Four other girls just like me are willing to help, because enough is enough.

Abi hasn’t had an easy life. In fact, the opposite. And when she has to move in with her Grandma midway through her senior year, she thinks it’s just getting worse. Little does she know a boy down the street and a rag tag group of friends are about to turn her world - and her heart - upside down. Start listening to the series that will make you laugh, cry, and swoon today.

After everything I’ve been through, I’m more focused than ever on healing myself and living the kind of life I want. But with my dad up for parole and Jon’s athletic career over with a single injury, my dreams are turning into a nightmare. I have so many questions. How can I heal when everything around me seems so broken? How can I live my life when the person who hurt me might walk free?

It’s been the craziest year of my life, and celebrating graduation with Jon just makes it all feel real. Like, maybe, I can have my happily ever after. But then, Grandma hands me a graduation card. And there’s no address on it. No signature. Just six words from a complete stranger that turn my life upside down. I’m supposed to be getting ready for college. Dealing with moving away from my friends after actually finding some. Enjoying my relationship with Jon. But, maybe, all of that is the least of my worries. Because, I know one thing for sure: Someone is out to get me.

So when my car’s broken down on the side of the road while my parents are at a retreat to save their crumbling marriage, of course Jeremiah’s the one who pulls up and offers to give me a ride. I don’t care how handsome he is when he looks at me with those adventure eyes or that any other girl would give everything to drive across the country with him. No, I’m thinking about my brother and the little boy in hospice he wanted to run this race for.

What happens when the bad boy takes over the school advice column? The last thing Emerick should be doing is giving anyone advice. His dad’s in prison. His mom’s buried under credit card debt. And he’s one step from failing. After everything his mom’s been through, she can’t take another disappointment. So when the guidance counselor gives him a choice, anonymously write the school’s advice column or drop out, what choice does he really have? Student body president Nora Wilson has the perfect life. At least, that’s what everyone thinks.

When I woke up in the hospital, fatherless and blind, falling in love was my last priority. No, I had to figure out how to live again. And deal with my heinous aunt. Plus her two daughters, aka the Terrible Two. But then I got my first letter from Jett. He shouldn’t want anything to do with me—a relationship would cost him too much. But he keeps trying to tell me that some rules are meant to be broken.

It’s the first day at my new school and I already have a "wide load" sticker on my back. But this is still better than life was before. Before I was taken away from my parents. Before I moved in with my grandma. Before I met Jon Scoller. He’s cute, he lives down the street, but the guy asks way too many questions. Questions about a past I’d rather forget.