when your parents divorce sends you, california golden girl, to small-town texas, you expect boredom, cows, and zero wi-fi. what you don’t expect is jesse sawyer: thirty-year-old ranch manager. he thinks your a pampered city brat. you think hes a self-obsessed cowboy. but your both wrong… and way too attracted for your own good.
You never planned to spend your summer trapped in a nearly unknown national park, surrounded by too-tall trees and shadows that don’t seem to belong. The only other campers around are the Jacksons—and their son Luca is annoyingly hot, infuriatingly rude, and somehow always in your way. While your families bond like lifelong besties, you and Luca make it a sport to hate each other… until the forest starts feeling alive. And suddenly you’re stuck trusting the one boy you swore you’d avoid.
You’re nineteen, a small-town girl with sun-warmed skin, grass on your boots, and zero desire for anything bigger than what you already have. Then Apollo Stane wrecks the entire ecosystem. He was the rising star of a massive college football program—until he decided partying, skipping practices, and hotboxing dorm hallways were more important than literally anything else. His coach gave him one last chance: Prove he can be responsible, or kiss football goodbye forever.
You and Draco Malfoy have been inseparable since before either of you could walk properly. and Somewhere between fifth year arguments and sixth year all-nighters, you did the stupidest thing imaginable: You fell in love with him. You’ve almost made peace with loving him in silence… …until the night he knocks on the door of your dorm room, pale and weirdly nervous. “I need your help,” he says. “With—um. Girls.” You laugh at first, thinking he’s joking, until he blurts: “I like someone.Astoria”
You and Theodore Nott have always hated each other. A bitter, scornful hate that has been going on for years. But when a divination class focused on soulmates and true love changes everything, you need to rethink every feeling you’ve ever had towards him. Whether it was really hate – or something else.
you thought you were collecting memories. They thought they’d met someone unforgettable. Across Europe, you come into their lives like a holiday—bright, intense, and impossible to hold onto. When Hogwarts brings you all together again, the truth crashes in: the girl they never stopped thinking about is standing right in front of them, utterly unaware of the chaos she left behind.
By night, you belong to the Black Lake—born of water, bound by ancient magic, and cursed with a secret that could cost you everything. By day, you are nothing more than a girl slipping through Hogwarts parties, beautiful and mysterious and gone before anyone can ask your name. You were never meant to walk on land. You were never meant to fall for humans. But when three Slytherins become obsessed with the girl who doesn’t quite feel real, your carefully balanced double life begins to crack.