How (Not) to Fall in Love (29 page)

Cinderella’s Dress
by
Shonna Slayton

Kate simply wants to create window displays at the department store where she’s working, trying to help out with the war effort. But when long-lost relatives from Poland arrive with a steamer trunk they claim holds
the
Cinderella’s dresses, life gets complicated. Now, with a father missing in action, her new sweetheart, Johnny, stuck in the middle of battle, and her great aunt losing her wits, Kate has to unravel the mystery before it’s too late. After all, the descendants of the wicked stepsisters will stop at nothing to get what they think they deserve.

Whatever Life Throws at You
by
Julie Cross

When seventeen-year-old track star Annie Lucas’s dad starts mentoring nineteen-year-old baseball rookie phenom, Jason Brody, Annie’s convinced she knows his type—arrogant, bossy, and most likely not into high school girls. But as Brody and her father grow closer, Annie starts to see through his façade to the lonely boy in over his head. When opening day comes around and her dad—and Brody’s—job is on the line, she’s reminded why he’s off-limits. But Brody needs her, and staying away isn’t an option.

Love and Other Unknown Variables

by
Shannon Lee Alexander

Charlie Hanson has a clear vision of his future. A senior at Brighton School of Mathematics and Science, he knows he’ll graduate, go to MIT, and inevitably discover the solutions to the universe’s greatest unanswerable problems. But for Charlotte Finch, the future has never seemed very kind. Charlie’s future blurs the moment he meets Charlotte, but by the time he learns Charlotte is ill, her gravitational pull on him is too great to overcome. Soon he must choose between the familiar formulas he’s always relied on or the girl he’s falling for.