Katie Klein

True love can blossom in unexpected places. This is Jaden pretending not to notice. . . . Jaden McEntyre and Parker Whalen are a wrong fit from the start. Jaden is driven and focused, Harvard Med School within reach. Parker has a past—a reputation—and the rumors about his mysterious habits abound. So there’s no reason why, when they're assigned to work together on a project in English, they should discover they have anything in common, or even like each other, and they definitely shouldn't be falling in love. As they bond over Edith Wharton’s tragic novella, Ethan Frome, the “bad boy” vibe Parker plays begins to dissipate. Soon, Jaden finds herself shedding her own “good girl” image: sneaking around to be with him, confiding in him, and ultimately falling hard for this leather-wearing, motorcycle-driving loner who plays into the rebel stereotype. Still, Jaden can't shake the feeling that there's more to Parker than he's letting on. He's hiding something from her, and discovering the truth means reconciling the Parker she's grown to love with the person he really is. Because it's possible that his life inside the classroom—everything Jaden knows—is one massive lie. CROSS MY HEART, told from Jaden's point of view, is a 76k-word/300-page contemporary romance for young adults. Bonus features include the official playlist and an interview with the author. * In addition to spending more than 100 days on the Amazon Teen Top 100 Bestseller List in its first year of release, CROSS MY HEART was also a 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best YA Fiction. keywords: contemporary YA, teen drama, bad boy romance, romantic love story, coming of age, strangers to lovers

Cross My Heart

Seventeen-year-old Genesis Green is living anything but a charmed life. As far back as she can remember, she and her mother have been bouncing from town to town, struggling to survive on Ramen noodles and minimum wage. Late one evening, Genesis and her boyfriend are in a car accident. Carter’s SUV rolls, and Genesis finds herself injured, lying on the pavement. Just before she slips into the darkness an unfamiliar voice calls out to her, promising everything will be fine. His name is Seth, and he’s the Guardian assigned to protect her. When Genesis begins having bizarre visions, the Guardians believe she could be useful to them. To Seth, this means stepping into the middle of an epic battle between angels and demons. Even with supernatural protection, there’s no guarantee he can keep Genesis safe, something that's becoming more important to him by the day. The line between reality and the celestial becomes so blurred that Genesis can't decide who’s real and who’s otherworldly, and worse: who's good and who's evil. THE GUARDIAN is a 53k-word/215-page novel for young adults. Keywords: teen, YA, young adult, urban fantasy, angel, demon, love story, romance

The Guardian

True love can blossom in unexpected places. This is Parker pretending not to care. . . . Parker Whalen and Jaden McEntyre are a wrong fit from the start. Jaden is driven and focused, Harvard Med School within reach. Parker has a past—a reputation—and the rumors about his mysterious habits abound. So there’s no reason why, when they're assigned to work together on a project in English, they should discover they have anything in common, or even like each other, and they definitely shouldn't be falling in love. What they have? It isn't real. Because the truth is Parker Whalen is a liar. This has never mattered…until now. Because lying to someone you care about—someone who matters, someone who believes in you—that's when people get hurt. And Parker is about to hurt Jaden in the biggest way imaginable. COLLATERAL DAMAGE is the companion novel to CROSS MY HEART, which spent more than 100 days on the Amazon Teen Top 100 Bestseller List in its first year of release, and was a 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best YA Fiction. COLLATERAL DAMAGE, a 76k word/300 page novel for Young Adults, is CROSS MY HEART told from Parker's point of view. **Though this is not a series, the author highly recommends reading CROSS MY HEART before COLLATERAL DAMAGE** Keywords: teen drama, contemporary YA, young adult, bad boy romance, romantic love story, coming of age, strangers to lovers

Collateral Damage

She’s the best violinist her inner-city high school has ever seen. He’s on the fast track to nowhere. For Nick and Fallon, it starts with a kiss—a kiss that becomes the calm before their storm. Because Nick is not the only guy in love with Fallon, and Fallon is not the only girl with her eyes on Nick. As Nick’s past returns to haunt him, Fallon’s home situation will shift from precarious to dangerous, leaving them both to pick up the shattered fragments of a life from which they were desperately trying to break free. Can Nick shed his slacker skin to prove himself worthy of the girl he fell in love with on a playground almost a decade ago? Can Fallon take a leap of faith, opening her heart to the guy who, despite his shadows, is promising to be her everything? Because if they can, they just might find a happily ever after they were too scared to even imagine. *In addition to spending more than 100 days on the Amazon Teen Top 100 Bestseller List in its first year of release, Klein’s CROSS MY HEART was also a 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best YA Fiction.

Rise

Sometimes the ones we let go are the ones who were meant to stay. As an assistant to one of the top wedding planners in the city, Claire Tyndall is tasked with making each bride’s dream celebration come true, and bigger is always better. Jesse Bryant is back in town after graduating college, but only to put his family’s house on the market. When a bride in a bind decides to move her reception to his historic home, a chance encounter pulls Jesse and Claire back into each other’s orbit. The problem is they haven’t spoken in more than four years—not since the day Sean—Jesse’s older brother and Claire’s boyfriend—was killed in a texting while driving accident. But old feelings die hard, and as Jesse falls for Claire all over again, the secrets they’ve kept locked inside will threaten to tear them apart. Claire can never find out what happened the night before Sean’s accident, and Jesse can never know the truth about the morning he died—not if there’s any hope for a happily ever after.

Heart of Glass

When seventeen-year-old Harley Belle Thorpe is rushed to her father’s house on the opposite side of the country, she’s only expecting to stay a week at most—just until things settle down. She doesn’t expect her ex-boyfriend to violate the restraining order against him, or for her trip to be extended indefinitely, and she certainly isn’t expecting River Havencroft, her stepmother’s nephew. River’s summer is unfolding exactly as anticipated—working alongside his twin sister with their two young cousins and attempting to reconcile the future he’s envisioned for himself with the one his family has already planned for him—until Harley, that is. Everything about his uncle’s daughter works against their world of country clubs, prep schools, and trust funds, but the more time they spend together the less River can imagine this world—and his own—without her in it. She is everything he didn’t know he needed. But as the sun sets on summer, Harley’s ex-boyfriend will make a dangerous play to lure her back to him, leaving River desperate to keep her safe. The only question that remains: how far is he willing to go?

All I Never Needed

“Even though there is no such thing—no such thing as perfect, and no such thing as permanent—for this moment I let myself feel hopeful. I allow myself the expectation of the best possible outcome from this night—as dangerous as the feeling might be.” A chance meeting on Christmas Eve will change Jonathan and Olivia’s lives forever. This sweet YA romance is a novella: approximately 25k words, or 100 pages long. Keywords: teen, YA, young adult, Christmas, holiday, romance, love story, short read

Once Upon A Christmas Eve

After the tragic death of a friend at the hands of demons, Genesis Green moves into the pool house on ex-boyfriend Carter's estate. Still under the watchful eye of Seth, her Guardian, she lives and breathes a single purpose: Vengeance. When the Guardian Council discovers Genesis is serious about taking Viola out of this world, they send Mara, a warrior, to help prepare her for her greatest, final battle. Though she's growing stronger by the day, her visions are becoming increasingly unreliable. When a single act threatens to separate Genesis from Seth forever, she'll face the most painful decision yet to save the Guardian she loves. VENDETTA, the second novel in THE GUARDIAN series, is a 53k-word/215-page urban fantasy for young adults. Keywords: teen, young adult, YA, urban fantasy, angel, demon, romance, love story

Vendetta

The Trilogy: The Guardian, Vendetta, and Revelation is a 3-book collection (over 165k words/650 pages). Bonus Material includes an Interview with Katie Klein, and "In the Beginning," a re-telling of Carter and Genesis's car accident from Seth's point of view. The Guardian Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Genesis Green is living anything but a charmed life. As far back as she can remember, she and her mother have been bouncing from town to town, struggling to survive on Ramen noodles and minimum wage. Late one evening, Genesis and her boyfriend are in a car accident. Carter’s SUV rolls, and Genesis finds herself injured, lying on the pavement. Just before she slips into the darkness an unfamiliar voice calls out to her, promising everything will be fine. His name is Seth, and he’s the Guardian assigned to protect her. When Genesis begins having bizarre visions, the Guardians believe she could be useful to them. To Seth, this means stepping into the middle of an epic battle between angels and demons. Even with supernatural protection, there’s no guarantee he can keep Genesis safe, something that's becoming more important to him by the day. The line between reality and the celestial becomes so blurred that Genesis can't decide who’s real and who’s otherworldly, and worse: who's good and who's evil. Vendetta Synopsis: After the tragic death of a friend at the hands of demons, Genesis Green moves into the pool house on ex-boyfriend Carter's estate. Still under the watchful eye of Seth, her Guardian, she lives and breathes a single purpose: Vengeance. When the Guardian Council discovers Genesis is serious about taking Viola out of this world, they send Mara, a warrior, to help prepare her for her greatest, final battle. Though she's growing stronger by the day, her visions are becoming increasingly unreliable. When a single act threatens to separate Genesis from Seth forever, she'll face the most painful decision yet to save the Guardian she loves. Revelation Synopsis: Genesis Green's life is unraveling at the seams. The Council has stripped her protection, Viola has taken Seth, and she and Carter have fled South Marshall. When an opportunity to save her fallen angel arises, she'll have one chance to find and eliminate the most powerful demon walking the earth. Enter Luke Castellani—charming, dangerous, compelling—someone who can give Genesis everything she desires. With her life (and soul) on the line, the greatest, final sacrifice will be made to put an end to the evil threatening her world. Keywords: teen, young adult, YA, urban fantasy, angel, demon, love story, romance

The Trilogy: The Guardian, Vendetta, and Revelation (3 in 1)

What happens when a boy from a privileged, upper-middle-class family falls for a girl in a rehabilitation facility accused of murdering her best friend?In a world of mansions, expensive prep schools, and elite colleges, where money means favors and the right price will buy a ticket into or out of just about any situation, Trent Moreau is living easy. Drugs, parties, breaking and entering, traffic violations, property damage . . . it's nothing for Trent's father to swoop in and buy his son's way out of trouble. Only this time, he and his brother have gone too far. After ruining one of his father's executive gatherings, Crewe is sent to rehab, and Trent is forced to live on campus (and on a budget) under the watchful eye of a roommate who reports back to (and is likely getting paid by) Trent's father. When he's caught tampering with files at Crewe's facility, Trent is assigned (more) community service hours to be fulfilled by spending time with seventeen-year-old Summer Evans, resident psychopath. The previous year, Summer's best friend was found dead in her backyard swimming pool. Summer, the only known witness, remembers nothing about that night. Because foul play was suspected and she was a minor, Summer and her family agreed to rehab in lieu of a prison sentence. But the more time Trent spends with Summer, and the more he learns about the events surrounding her friend's mysterious death, the less sense it all makes. What if Summer isn't guilty at all? What if she's innocent, and he can prove it? As Trent quietly falls for the extraordinary artist, his investigation is going to take a dramatic turn, sending him spiraling deeper into the egotism and entitlement edging his own privileged lifestyle.*Katie Klein is a diehard romantic with a penchant for protagonists who kick butt. In addition to spending more than 100 days on the Amazon Teen Top 100 Bestseller List in its first year of release, Klein's CROSS MY HEART was also a 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best YA Fiction. She currently resides on the East Coast and is hard at work on her next novel. She maintains a web presence at http: //katiekleinwrites.blogspot.com.

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