There’s a lot Ari never said to her best friend.

Like how much it hurt when he stopped talking to her.
Or how impossible it is to forget him, no matter how hard she tries.

After relentless bullying and a humiliating video forces her to leave her old school, Ari’s determined to disappear into the crowd at Hillcrest Academy. New hair, new rules, no drama.

But starting over isn’t easy when her next-door neighbor and ex–best friend, Micah, goes there too.

Worse, he’s her ride to school.

Micah’s the Academy’s golden boy. Popular, charming, and untouchable. Ari just wants to make it through senior year unnoticed. But when old memories start resurfacing and the distance between them begins to blur, Ari has to face the truth she’s been running from for years.

Some wounds never really healed.

And some hearts never learned how to stop loving. 

1993. Two lives. One night that changes everything.

Aliza Hollister has the perfect life. Or so it seems. Designer clothes, a promising future, and expectations she never agreed to. With graduation looming, she’s running out of time to escape a life that doesn’t feel like hers.

Matt doesn’t believe in dreaming. With failing grades and no grand plans, survival feels like enough. Until a chance encounter with the school’s untouchable queen bee flips his world upside down.

They come from different worlds. They were never even supposed to meet.

But fate has other plans.

Getting involved is reckless. Walking away might be worse.

And once they collide, everything changes. 

She's off-limits. Now all he has to do is tell his heart that.

After hitting rock bottom, Astrid is determined to pull her life together. She has no choice—it’s either try or lose everything she loves.

She makes a promise. To lay off alcohol. To stay clean. And, of course, to stay the hell away from boys.

Easier said than done.

When his family is hit with a storm cloud of news, Theo’s world is flipped upside down. Their move to Boston is just one of the many changes he is slammed with senior year.

As he struggles to breathe through the layers of sand that are falling around him, he finds a glimmer of light in an unexpected friendship.

But Astrid is off-limits.

She. Is. Off. Limits.

Now all he has to do is tell his heart that.

Senior year was the year she’d been waiting for. So now that it’s at her doorstep, why does she feel like she’s drowning?

Bree has enough on her plate. With the demands of school, an absentee mother, and a little sister who is … well, let’s just say “gifted,” she’s got plenty to deal with.

She doesn’t need Mr. Popular, Kyle Roberts, interfering in her life. 

But sometimes what you think you need and what the world decides to throw at you couldn’t be more different. And just as the world comes crashing down, Bree is tossed a lifeline from the most unexpected of places. 

Because the world’s not done with Brianna Dover just yet… and neither is Kyle Roberts.

Moving sucks. Meeting a cute new boy makes it all worth it.

Ellie just wants to make friends and settle in at her new school. Moving from New York City to Ocean Lake, Maine wasn’t easy.

Until she meets Peter. He’s an attractive boy with a troubled past—more than intriguing enough to take her mind off the move. But Ocean Lake is a town with more than cute boys and frozen lakes.

Ellie spots something magical from her window, something entirely impossible, and she’s drawn into a different world she never believed existed.

She’ll have to make a choice, and Peter might not be able to make the same one.

It’s hard to stay grounded when you were born for the water…

The darkness is coming…  

The only thing keeping sixteen-year-old Ellie sane is the lake.  In the lake, breathing the water as she swims, she can just be herself, not the mermaid princess who once saved Glacia.  In the lake, she can momentarily forget Peter and the ever-growing distance between them since he moved away, taking a piece of her heart with him. 

Then she meets Arrin, a cute, teenage merman from north of Ecuador.  Hoping to harness the power of the oldest and most magical mercity to help him fight against the evil force that wiped out his home and people, he convinces Ellie to take him to Glacia, the mermaid world below the lake. 

But the beautiful white crystal city of her memories is gone. And now the same dark monster that’s wreaking chaos and destruction on the merlands across the world wants Ellie’s magic, and it won’t give up until it destroys her and everything she loves.

Shadows of Stars is the second book in the Lights at Midnight YA fantasy series. If you like good-hearted heroines, wondrous lands, and sweet romances, then you’ll love Orchid Leigh’s charming coming-of-age tale.