Sixteen-year-old Evan Granger has no problems with being gay. Despite his mothers objections, he wears nail polish and makeup to school and pursues his goal of becoming a professional drag queen.

TV drag star Taffy Sweet gives encouragement and Evans cousin Holly tries to protect him, but school bullies abuse him so badly because of his sexuality and the girly way he dresses that he ends up at the hospital emergency room. After that, even his new crush, a closeted football jock named Moe Garcia, is unhappy about Evans choice to live his life openly gay. But even in girly clothes...

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Sun-filled...

"With a foreword by C. Kennedy."

Aaron Downing is broken, barely clinging to the hope that one day, he will be normal again. His life remains a constant string of nightmares, flashbacks, and fear, but he perseveres and starts college, determined to move on.

Then Aaron gets assigned to work with Spencer Thomas for his programming project. Aaron doesn t want Spencer to think he s a freak, but as he gets to know his new deaf friend, he figures out he doesn t need to be normal. If he could just learn to control his fear, that could be enough to find his footing again.

Or so Aaron...

The day Jackson Kern walks into Taylor Andrewss classroom is a momentous day in Taylors life. Hes had crushes before, sure, but as time goes on, this is starting to look a whole lot more serious. Still, Jackson doesnt return Taylors feelings.

Taylor has his own admirers, though. Kevin Richards is used to getting what he wants, and what he wants right now is Taylor, so when Taylor rejects him, Kevin retaliates. At first Taylors entourage rallies around him, but then Kevin takes his deception one step further and Taylor sees his support dwindle, teaching him the valuable...

"Secrets of Majestic Hills: Book One"

Cassidy Ryan and Brynn Michaels attend the same high school, but they live in different worlds. Cassidy s a popular cheerleader, and Brynn s the social leper. One is all sunshine and rainbows, while the other could ve been carved from an Edgar Allan Poe book.

Both girls have their problems, though. Cassidy is coming into her birthright a long line of ancient magic Cassidy isn t ready to have. Brynn is coming into her sexuality something that will definitely cause problems with her very conservative family.

When a teacher assigns Cassidy and...

"Verses of Vrelenden: Book Two"

Ren Mallorian is finally a hero. He helped Celestrian, the lost unicorn, complete his quest, and he defeated the kingdom's worst enemy, Grimthorn. Now Ren lives in the capital city doing odd quests for the king and his nobles-but he misses Celestrian.

One day the king summons Ren and the Prince of Toads, a noble who has taken the role of irreverent sidekick, and tasks them with assembling a team to combat an uprising in the Zombie Kingdom. On their journey across Vrelenden, they gather allies: Discimus, an accomplished wizard and a smug bastard (it's a...

"Waiting for Forever: Book One"

"Part One: The Throwaway Boy"

As the country s religious and secular leaders battle over equality in the abstract, Brian McAllister and Jamie Mayfield live in the crossfire. In their little town of Crayford, Alabama, loving another boy is the worst kind of sin. Best friends since childhood, they explore their love and each other in Jamie s backyard tree house as they hide from the world. They happily plan for the future together until their lives are rocked when their secret is exposed and Jamie s family intervenes.

When hatred turns to violence in...