BASED OFF OFF OF "FAKE SKATING"! --- Aiden Ryder was your childhood best friend. Keyword.. was. Because after you moved away, he hadn't answered one of your letters. You were history. Until you move back for your senior year, after your dad's divorce. You're dreading and anticipating seeing Aiden, but you don't expect to see him for the first time as a completely different guy. He's not Aiden Ryder. He's "Riot". And, according to the whole town, a hockey god. But that's not the only thing that's changed about him. He hates you. When photos leak on the internet that could ruin his reputation and his whole future with hockey, he panics, and decides the only way to prove to the world that he's responsible is to find a girlfriend, a calm to his storm. And who else is there to pick but you? The girl he kissed once when he was thirteen, and never got over?
Noah Maxwell was your childhood best friend your whole life, and your first love. The biggest distance between you was the willow tree that sat in between your two windows.. until you moved away. Now you're back five years later to the small town of Willowsmith as a senior in high school, and he has a new girlfriend who looks just like you. You never did tell him why you ghosted him for five years, because you didn't want him to worry about your mother's illness. But the more time you spend with him, the more you realize you never truly got over your first love, and he's been secretly pining for you all of these years.
Adrian Hill was your everything. And he was also the football team's everything.. right up until he suffered an injury that caused him to never be able to play again. In a moment of vulnerability after the incident, he snaps and distances himself from you. And neither of you look back when you go your separate ways to college. Now, present day.. your sister and his brother are to be married. And for two weeks of celebration, you and the wedding party are to gather at a beachside mansion in the Florida Keys. The problem? You're staying with him. The other problem? You have a boyfriend who isn't him. The worst problem? He never, ever stopped loving you.
Two actors. One movie. One.. scandal? James Davis has been in the film industry with you since you were children starring on a cancelled show. You hated him then, and you hate him fifteen years later. But when he has a shoot back up to fame, its getting increasingly hard to avoid him. And "increasingly hard" changes to "impossible" when he gets cast as your romantic love interest in the biggest film of your career.
Camden Blaine has been your first and only true love since you accidentally stumbled into his life in your junior year of high school. He was an aspiring quarterback with a bright future ahead of him, and you were just.. well.. waiting for the day he'd look at you the way you look at him. A fallout happens after a freak accident, and you don't speak to him for years. That is, until you move to LA and find out he lived just a few blocks down from you. Now he's a professional football player for the Los Angeles Chargers, and everything and nothing has changed, because you still feel the sparks. When you accidentally reveal your deepest secret about the boy you love to the whole world, you both decide to take the fake-PR-relationship route. You know it's a big mistake the moment you agree to it, because that means returning to feelings you thought you'd buried. But it turns out that maybe, just maybe, he's been waiting for a hail mary attempt as good as this one since the moment he heard your laugh.
Ronan Vale was your best friend.. until he wasn't. You went to college in Georgia. He stayed back at their hometown in Maine. You don't plan on ever returning back except for holidays. That is.. until your sister announces her engagement. Not only are you returning for a week-long stay at your lake house in Avondale, Maine— but apparently, you'd told your sister in a drunken state that you would be bringing your new boyfriend to her wedding. She's expecting you to bring a plus-one, and with only a day to find a candidate, you remember your best friend. The one that knows everything about you. The one that, oops.. you haven't spoken to in three years. He was going to be at the wedding anyway, so it made perfect sense to ask him to be your fake boyfriend. Just for the week, and then you're going back to Georgia, and he goes back to his family. But things aren't ever that simple when you realize just how deeply you still care for him, and how his feelings for you have reached far beyond the tip of the iceberg.
Cameron Kennedy. Your next-door neighbor, and number one offender. You've disliked him for years since all he ever does is tease you, but in reality, he's hopelessly in love with you, and just wants you to look at him at all. When you end up crushing on his teammate who's just moved into the neighborhood, you end up going to Cam to beg him to be "your in". Except it all threatens to backfire in your face when, after weeks of hard work with Cam, you realize that maybe you were falling for the wrong player all along. --- The plot takes inspiration from "Better Than the Movies" by Lynn Painter, but with all original characters!
Lucy Carpenter has been training to solve a case since she could walk, and she didn't know it until the case was her mother's. She walks in on Shelly Carpenter, famous 80s actress, with a knife plunged through her heart. And little does she know, there's a secret organization that has been dedicated to discovering who exactly her murderer was since the day she was born.
Inspired by "People We Meet on Vacation!" ---- Nick Price. The star basketball player of the University of Maryland, who just so happens to be the most Type A person you will ever meet. He lives by the motto "there's a place for everything". That is.. until he meets you. You are the complete opposite of him. Your idea of fun consists of late night parties, new adventures, and activities that inch very close to breaking the law. Your dream is to be a travel agent after graduating college. When you end up hitching a ride with Nick back to your hometown in Maryland, things get a little too personal for his comfort. Your car breaks down. You're forced to spend a night in the middle of no-where, at a motel, with him. And as much as he's fighting to deny it, he can't lie. He's intrigued by you. By your wit, your love of travel and adventure, and just.. you. So when you ask him if he would go on a trip with you and his sister, he finds himself considering it. And little did he know that the first road trip was only the beginning.
You're from Scotland, and Lucas Buchanan is the annoying git from the states who kicked a ball in your face while on vacation in Florida. All you know is his name, but it doesn't matter, because you'll never see him again. Well.. until you do. Four years later, you're enrolled in the University of Edinburgh as a student. Your life is going swimmingly— your boyfriend is the star football player, you have a great circle of friends, and you're on your way to graduating with honors. You think you have your life planned out.. until the universe decides to drop the one thing that's been planned all along back into your life in the form of an American brunette who kicked a ball into your face when you were fifteen. Lucas Buchanan is back in your life, and this time, it seems he's here for keeps.
Ruthless Pirate King Grayson Ilean has been searching for mermaids ever since he was a boy. When a mermaid stumbles upon his ship, he discovers that he hasn't been searching for a mermaid this whole time, but a siren. And this siren in particular is here on a mission— to learn everything she needs to know about human behavior in order to perfect her siren song.
Jackson Bridges is your insufferable classmate at Dorant Catholic Academy in New York City, aka the school for the rich and famous. You despise everything about him, and when you find out you're going to be forced to work together for a project, there is nothing you dread more. When night falls, all of your focus turns to the speed on your speedometer, or the wind in your hair. You're apart of an illegal street racing group, and you can't seem to stop thinking about the mysterious biker who flirts with you every night, but yet, you don't even know his name. The further you get into the project, and the more you learn about the insufferable Jackson Bridges, you start to figure out that maybe the son of a rich billionaire, and the biker guy of your dreams, aren't nearly as far apart as you thought they were.
Kai Ashford was your childhood best friend, but he also happened to be dating the girl who's been jealous of you her whole life. When rumors about you spread, Kai despises you along with every other person in school. When you finally get accepted into the ballet school of your dreams, it seems as though the universe is playing tricks on you, because you're suddenly paired up with Kai, and involved with him in every way a dance partner can be involved with you. The problem? He hates you. He believed every word your ex-best friend said.. until he doesn't. Because when he dances with you, he feels a fire come alive inside of him that he didn't realize had been burning the whole time he's known you. And you.. you're starting to feel the burn. The burn that spread to the tips of your pointe slippers. The worst part? You're starting to want to get burned.
You have known Prince Ashford of the rival Brightward kingdom your whole life— you've had it engraved into your mind since birth that your kingdom, the kingdom of Starcrest, will one day bring them destruction. It's written in the stars, a rivalry spanning generations. And honestly? You couldn't care less. The kingdom of Brightward seems too nice. Too rich, too powerful, too.. everything. Your kingdom, the kingdom of Starcrest, knows only war and destruction. It makes sense for you to hate their kingdom and Prince Ashford's stupid too-white smile. But when you find out that you're both attending the same royal academy for training, he's.. different. Not as conceited as he used to be, and seems curious by you. But you're positive it's a ruse. An attempt to make you appear vulnerable by entrusting him with information. But he brings out emotions in you that you promised to keep behind locked doors, seems to see right through your emotionless facade. And you soon start to believe that the biggest destruction to come between the two kingdoms would be that of your guard crashing down. Because falling for each other means treason and war. But it seems as though the war he fights every day for your heart is much more dangerous than war between kingdoms.
INSPIRED BY "Once Upon a Broken Heart"!! --- In your world, there are mortals, and there are Ethereals. They are considered gods to the believers, and they have the ability to provoke emotion and answer your deepest wishes. When you find out that your beloved has been supposedly spelled into a marriage with your stepsister, you pray to the Ethereal of love and euphoria, but the Ethereal who shows up at the church is his opposite. Lucian is the Ethereal of heartbreak and deception, and upon hearing your name and your predicament, strikes a bargain with you on how to get your beloved back, if you so much as show him a magical object that has the ability to turn back time. It's simple, really. How could you ever fall in love with the Ethereal of heartbreak?
When your mother was murdered, nobody could tell you just what happened. You were shooed away to a foster home, and that was that. Not even a funeral service because apparently, there was not a body. But when things start to pop up— anonymous text messages, notes in your locker, news headlines about serial murder cases that all look just like your mother— you realize that there are more than a few missing puzzle pieces to your past, and to your mother. With the help of your foster brothers who may or may not both be trying to steal your heart, you inch closer and closer to finding out what, or who, was really behind the mess that shifted your world on its axis.
You grew up in a small town in Indiana, with a tight-knit community full of your family. You're content. You're happy. That is.. until the tragedy. Your Uncle James passed away of a sudden heart attack, but that isn't the shocking part. The shocking part is that he had been a music producer for secret in years, and he has millions saved away to bestow in his will. But one of his only wishes for you and your family in his will was for you to attend the most prestigious boarding school in Chicago. River Johansson is suspicious of you from the moment you walk through the school doors. He makes a bet with his friends that he can figure out what your secret is, and get you to admit that you lied the whole time. So in order for him to get close, he offers to tutor you every day after school. But soon.. his plan starts to backfire. He begins to genuinely enjoy your company, and it's not about the bet to him anymore. He couldn't care less about your secret, because it's you he wants even more. But is it too late to admit he loves you before he could mess it all up by admitting it all started with a bet?
As a princess in the kingdom of Kaydar Leia, you are to be wed to a prince of a neighboring nation. All you want is to escape from your castle, but you cannot even have that because your personal guard, Roman, is never not by your side. He never speaks. He is forbidden from ever removing his armor. He's just.. there. When an attack happens on your kingdom, you are forced to go into hiding in the woods. When you pass out from the cold, a mysterious rider takes you away to a cabin further into the forest, and you learn that his name is Knox. Well.. that's what he calls himself. You spend a week together in this cabin, but even after you return to your castle, he keeps appearing at your window. You find yourself falling for him, but the weight of the kingdom is on your shoulders. One wrong move, and everyone will see, especially your guard who never leaves your side. Your guard by the name of Roman Knox.
When a mix-up happens at your summer camp, star basketball player Luke Bennett is forced to room with you and co-parent more elementary school campers than you can count. Only when you run over his most prized possession, your whole world gets flipped around. Because not only does he have plans for how you can pay him back, he's officially noticed you. After years of you being his next door neighbor. But that's just it. Because people like Luke Bennett don't notice people like you. But now that he's noticed you.. it's impossible for him to stay away.