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Ridge McCoy is about to fall hard... but will the landing be worth the fall?All stability in sixteen-year-old Ridge McCoy’s life crashed and burned in the plane crash that killed his dad. This summer-long basketball camp is his chance to improve his skills and escape his problems back home. But his summer plans take a turn in an unexpected direction when he meets Micah Youngblood, the guy who runs the carousel at the local mall and has a reputation for devouring straight boys’ heterosexuality for breakfast, alongside his chocolate chip pancakes. Ridge needs a way to avoid the guys at ...

Eighteen-year-old Haven doesn’t remember life before the Surge. Before electricity was zapped to near non-existence. Before families sold their children and big cities became ghost towns. Before she met her best friend Cricket, the 6’10” boy she rescued from a freak show. After spending a year as the McCall circus’s star dancer, Haven is blindsided when her employer sells her to a brothel. Refusing to be sold into prostitution, she hatches an escape plan, but after her final show, she and Cricket are interrupted mid-escape by an intoxicated assassin named Breck. He is everything ...

Marisol wasn't looking for fifteen minutes of fame, but she can't hide from the limelight when she meets Noah Winters. Spring break in Los Angeles with her BFFs has been Marisol's driving force to get through her senior year. But when a falling out dents her plans, Marisol tucks the broken friendship into her back pocket with her cell phone and spring break bucket list. Surf city Crescent Cove isn't exactly LA, but once she meets a tattooed brunette named Noah in the hotel elevator, Marisol really doesn't mind crossing off the items on her list without her friends - especially after Noah ...

Haley Sullivan has never been one to play the villain, but after learning who is blackmailing Great White Surf, that's exactly what she's asked to do. By alienating her friends and moving into Colby Taylor's house, she embraces the role of the prime suspect, hoping the real blackmailer will relax and slip up. Keeping up her cover is tough, though, as dark secrets come into light and battle lines are drawn among friends. And the Brooks brothers? That's another matter of tangled heart strings all on its own. Skeletons are unearthed, relationships are shattered, and lives are changed. The ...

Some dreams are to die for... Haley Sullivan knows where her future lies - in the surf town of Crescent Cove, California - and the only person who can help her chase her dreams is Colby Taylor, the west coast's most famous surfer. But talking to the surf star is nearly impossible when he's guarded by a hierarchy of beach bums who are determined to send her back to the east coast. Haley is up for the challenge of embracing their world, from wild summer nights and beach parties to ocean air and secret kisses in the dark. But when the lines blur between the ocean and the shore, her feelings ...

She thinks he's wrecked her summer. He's ready to prove her wrong.Summertime visits with her dad is Kaia Anderson’s favorite part of the year. With the recent retirement of long-time tour surfer Neil Harper, her surf-coach dad has been frothing for the next surf star to call upon him. Unfortunately, this new surf star has overlapped with Kaia’s plans, which have been relocated to St. Catalina Island - a remote tropical paradise with choppy cell service, little Wi-Fi, and no connection to the California summer she’d dreamed of. If it can be damaged, Dominic Richardson has probably had ...

He doesn't think he can be redeemed. She's determined to prove he can.Finally back in his home state of Hawaii, Kale Nakoa hopes to find a second chance, but the gossip around his circumstances follows him like a shadow, haunting every opportunity to reinvent his life. Between community service and hiding from news reporters, there's no time to reconnect with his old friends and definitely not a moment to reconnect with the ocean. The surf ache is wearing on him, but he's not sure if he's worthy of the lineup again. Leilani DeCosta has heard the whispers, but she doesn't want to believe ...

Haley Sullivan's relationship with Vin Brooks hasn't always been smooth sailing, but when Vin proposes, Haley knows he's meant to be her forever. As she transitions into the next phase of her life, it isn't the perfect "happy ever after" she dreamed it'd be. With friends leaving and new families forming, it's hard to hold on to anything permanent, especially after the one iconic landmark that holds their crew together is torn down. So when the corporate surf world turns her wedding into a PR event, Haley's not so sure there's anything she can do to save the day. But little does she know, ...

A summer romance with an international pop star wasn't in Chloe's plans... but that doesn't stop her from kissing Milo Grayson. Chloe Branson's summer of beach vacations and pool parties just died a sudden death. Now she's forced to help hide superstar boy band Spaceships Around Saturn... At least until her secret service agent dad figures out who fired shots at their show. The SAS guys aren't happy with the situation, either. The bad boy picks fights with middle sister Aralie, and the heart-throb can't escape obsessed little sister Emery. But after super cute Milo kisses Chloe during a ...

Aralie Branson hates boy bands... until she meets a certain bad boy.Nowhere on Aralie Branson’s summer agenda did it say she would be hiding the most famous boy band in the world, Spaceships Around Saturn, in her house. But since her dad’s impromptu offer to hide the band after a shooting, that’s exactly what she’s doing. Instead of pool parties and punk rock concerts, she’s spending her days at war with the band’s “bad boy,” Julian Rossi. He’s everything she hates about the music industry with his lame piercing, lack of tattoos, and fake black hair. But even with their ...

Some enemies are closer than you think... Summer rages on in Crescent Cove, but Haley Sullivan can't seem to rescue Great White Surf's sinking reputation. Surfers are kicked out of events. A.J.'s criminal record is leaked. Plans for a second Great White Surf store are foiled. With Vin's recent departure and Colby's dirty laundry displayed on the world's largest clothes line, Haley is barely hanging on. The team is desperate to save the store and Shark's legacy in the surf community, but someone is making waves to stop them and doesn't care who goes down with the ship. The only sanity Haley ...

Secrets can't always stay hidden in the sand...Haley Sullivan has waited impatiently for her return to the west coast, her California friends, and most of all, Vin Brooks. But she isn't the only new face in Crescent Cove this summer. When Colby Taylor's parents finally track him down and interrupt his surf competition with a dramatic entrance, the surf star spirals out of control, dragging Great White Surf's reputation through the muddy shoreline with him. As Colby's secrets dominate the tabloid headlines and plaster themselves on the covers of surf magazines, Vin feels the pressure to keep...

Eden Payne wants nothing to do with prom decorations, the popular girls, or the school's resident outcast Harvey Burke. Too bad her next semester is going to be consumed by the three. When bad luck lands her on the prom committee, alongside the cheerleaders and pageant queens, Eden Payne is assigned the most impossible task on the list: convincing retired local radio legend, Burke Berserk, to deejay their prom. Eden enlists help from Harvey Burke, hoping he can convince his dad to come out of retirement for one night. Harvey agrees... for a price. If Eden trains him to be the perfect prom ...