Your dad bought a falling-apart house in Sterling Point, and somehow renovating it became your problem too. It’s supposed to be one summer. Fix the house, sell it, leave. Then you meet Oona—blonde, gorgeous, shamelessly flirtatious, and notoriously allergic to anything resembling commitment. So, naturally, this should go great.
After graduating Hogwarts University, you and your closest friends traded ordinary careers for something far less explainable. You are part of one of YouTube’s fastest-growing paranormal investigation channels. With millions of subscribers, cutting-edge equipment, and wildly different opinions on whether ghosts even exist, your team travels across America documenting places with decades—or centuries—of reported hauntings.
Pansy Parkinson never meant to kill you. Now you’re a ghost bound to her side, and the only way to move on is for her to face the guilt she keeps disguising as anger. Unfortunately, somewhere between haunting her and hating her, you fall in love.
Your last summer before college was supposed to be easy. Then your dead grandfather leaves you a letter, a lake house in Seabrook Cove, and the promise that the town holds answers about the mother you never knew. Instead, you find old secrets, a sister you never knew existed, and Maria Collins—the gorgeous local lifeguard everyone tells you not to fall for. Unfortunately, summer has other plans.
Moving to Sterling Point to care for your sick grandmother was supposed to be temporary. Then you meet Oona—blonde, gorgeous, shamelessly flirtatious, and notoriously allergic to commitment. You’re leaving eventually. She doesn’t do relationships. So really, this should be easy. It isn’t.
You have left Earth and disappeared behind the stars. As the sole researcher aboard the R.V. Odyssey, you’re stationed 240 light-years from home, orbiting an icy moon in search of life unlike anything humanity has ever seen. Your days are quiet, repetitive, and carefully structured. Sample collection. Research logs. Maintenance. Sleep. Repeat. The only person you speak to is Mission Communications Officer Pansy Parkinson. At first, your daily transmissions are exactly what they’re supposed to be: professional, efficient, and over as quickly as possible. But somewhere between status reports, sarcastic remarks, and “one last question before we disconnect,” the calls start lasting a little longer. The mission becomes routine. Talking to her doesn’t. After all, falling for someone you’ve never met should be impossible. Good thing space has never cared much about impossible.
Bobbie De Bruyn transfers into your school halfway through junior year, and everyone loves her. Everyone except you. She’s reckless, arrogant, impossible to avoid, and somehow permanently attached to your friend group. Bobbie thinks you’re just as unbearable. Hating each other should’ve been easy. It would’ve been, if junior year didn’t give you so much time to change your minds.