Scarlett Barnhill
Bookaroos
Sad little guys with happy little endings
The cabin forced them to face each other. Returning to Goodtown will force them to face everything else...
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When high school senior and known nuisance Evergreen Cutler saves his ex-best friend Garrett from being hit by a truck, he's offered a week-long trip to a cabin in the Rocky Mountains. Tragically, the cabin comes with a caveat: Garrett is coming too, in honor of their shared New Year's Day birthday. The last thing that he wants to do is share a tiny hunting cabin with the person who hurt him the most, but he's always been a sucker.
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Garrett Spelling, captain of the baseball team at Prairie Mount High School, has done everything that he's ever been asked. He follows a strict diet and upholds his golden boy name over the colorful parts beneath. For most of his life, he's tamped down his biggest secret. Garrett is gay, and now he's stuck in a cabin with the reason he realized his sexuality in the first place. His other secret? He biked into that truck on purpose.
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Combating all the problems they left behind in the rearview mirror of Garrett's pickup truck will take a lot more than beaded bracelets and dancing in their underwear.
For as long as there have been Strange People, they have been afraid of us.
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Callum Chessman has finally reached his last year at Wildbrush Academy for Strange People. Between telekinesis, bipolar disorder, and being hopelessly in love with his best friend Nick, he has a lot on his plate.
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Then students with anomalous strange behaviors begin to vanish.
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Through a nationwide network of kids Callum met during his stint in the mental ward, he soon discovers that Anomalous kids haven't just been going missing from Wildbrush. They've been going missing from every Strange school in the United States.
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Callum has never been good at staying in his lane.
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He will find out what is happening to his friends.
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There's just one thing to keep in mind:
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Don't let them catch you.
Goodtown, Colorado: her ancestors built this prairie truck stop town.
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Black lipstick and platform boots can’t save seventeen-year-old Gemma Spelling from herself. On a hot summer night, she overdoses and lands in a psych ward with nothing but a journal full of songs.
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Despite diagnoses and therapy, the hospital does not give Gemma a direction, and in the wake of her overdose, she’s spinning out of control. Then, popular reality TV show Small Town, Big Talent selects Goodtown as one of its casting locations, and Gemma knows she has to be a part of it. With the bow of her cello and the songs scrawled into her notebook, she lands in Hollywood. Her stagnant, unbalanced life in Colorado becomes something much greater than she expected to find in Los Angeles.
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Between the people she left behind in Goodtown and the secret she’s been harboring for three years, being on national television can’t change what made her. But with the strength of one bipolar theater kid, her broken but well-meaning family, and the queer people of small towns across America, Gemma realizes she may not be facing the world alone.
