Laura Dean and Freddy Riley are an on-again-off-again couple, and Freddy wants nothing more than to stay together for good. They always get back together, but it always costs Freddy something. Her friends, herself, her emotions. Unsure how to handle loving someone who doesn’t love her as much as she loves them, Freddy seeks advice from a mystic and an advice columnist, Anna Vice.
When Humaira “Hani” Khan comes out to her friends as bisexual, they give her the exact reaction she feared, invaliding her identity because she’s never dated girls before. So to get her friends to accept her, Hani enters into a mutually beneficial pact to pretend to date Ishita “Ishu” Dey, the academic overachiever who is the complete opposite of Hani. Ishu needs to win the head girl election and prove to her parents that she’s on track to become the doctor her parents wanted her sister to be, and she can’t do it without Hani’s help and social connections.
After a terribly embarrassing middle school career, Wilbur Nuñez-Knopf has barely escaped with a shred of dignity. Hopefully, high school will be a fresh start! Of course, things never turn out exactly as planned, especially with the same bullies still lurking around and his friend Alex distracted by his new boyfriend Fabrizio. At least Wilbur has his elderly neighbour, and unofficial best friend Sal to confide in, and an exchange trip with band students from Paris coming up.
Ben’s life is completely upended after their parents kick them out after they come out to them as non-binary. With no other options, Ben turns to their long-lost sister for help. Starting a new school, dealing with anxiety, a new home and visiting a new therapist is a lot, but there is one bright spot: Nathan.
All Enchanted Jones has ever wanted to be is a singer, and R&B legend Korey Fields is her ticket to stardom. After being discovered by Korey at a competition, a charmed Enchanted is swept up into his glamorous world. But lurking behind the dream-like exterior of Enchanted’s new life and relationship is a much darker story, led by an abusive, controlling and manipulative version of Korey. And when Enchanted wakes up one night to find Korey dead, she becomes suspect number one.
Josie is a seventeen-year-old freelance journalist with the opportunity of a lifetime: writing a profile of budding teenage movie star Marius Canet for Deep Focus magazine. After landing the role by winning a journalism contest, Josie embarks on her all-expenses-paid press tour with the cast of Marius’s new movie. But along the way, Josie discovers a dark secret behind the glitter of Hollywood stardom.
Khayyam is a seventeen-year-old aspiring art historian, and in Paris for the summer. Back home her academic and romantic lives are in shambles, and Khayyam is certain her life as she knows it is being pulled out from under her, including her chances at getting into her dream college and her boyfriend – not that he’s ever described himself that way – Zaid. But all that changes when she meets charming Alexandre, the descendant of the famous writer Alexandre Dumas – the French writer who just happens to be the subject of her academic paper that judges so viciously debunked.
Fereshteh “Angel” Rahimi’s life revolves around The Ark, the famous boyband she and her friend Juliet are finally going to meet this week. Some people might say it’s silly, but Angel knows that The Ark fandom is everything to her for a reason: it’s given her something to believe in, her friends and her dreams for most of her teenage life.
Jimmy Kaga-Ricci is The Ark’s frontman and is living his childhood dreams of being in a band with his best friends. However, despite his seemingly perfect life, Jimmy is struggling more than anyone knows.
Darcy has a secret, and it’s a big one. She runs locker 89, the locker where anyone in the school can drop a letter with their relationship problems and ten dollars and receive an anonymous email with relationship advice that boasts a 95% success rate. Darcy has never been caught, at least that is until her classmate Brougham catches her in the act of retrieving letters. However, her secret is safe with him. The only catch is that she has to help him get his ex-girlfriend back.
Henri Haltiwanger is NYC high school senior at a prestigious private school with big dreams. More specifically, big dreams of Columbia University, the school he desperately wants to attend. Known for his signature smile and for being charming with a capital c, Henri knows that acing his interview is the key to his acceptance. But when that doesn’t go according to plan, he winds up in what he hopes will be a mutually beneficial partnership with his intense neighbour and classmate Corinne Troy, the only person he can’t charm.
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