Simone Elkeles

Ashtyn Parker já está acostumada a ser abandonada, e aprendeu a não se deixar envolver demais em nenhum relacionamento. Quando sua irmã mais velha volta para casa, depois de dez anos, com um enteado a tiracolo, ela não quer saber de nenhum dos dois. O que Ashtyn não esperava é que o tal garoto mal-encarado e sem nenhum limite seria também... Irresistível. Depois de ser expulso do colégio interno em que estudava, Derek Fitzpatrick não teve outra escolha senão ir morar com a esposa de vinte e poucos anos de seu pai, que está viajando pela Marinha. Além de ter que aturar a madrasta, ele recebe a notícia de será obrigado a se mudar da Califórnia para sua cidade natal, Illinois. A vida não tinha mesmo como ficar pior... Ashtyn se esconde atrás de uma fantasia da vida perfeita: boa aluna, a única menina – e capitã! – do time de futebol americano da escola e namorada do quarterback promissor. Tudo parecia um conto de fadas. Ainda assim, ela se sente deslocada, e tem um plano para deixar tudo pra trás e correr em busca da bolsa de estudos em alguma faculdade bem longe de sua vida atual. Tudo o que Derek menos quer é participar de mais um drama familiar – já bastam os seus. Agora, ele se vê preso a uma casa estranha, com pessoas que não conhece e em uma cidade bem diferente do que está acostumado. O que ele não esperava era que aquela garota briguenta e fã de junk food seria capaz de mexer tanto com seus sentimentos. Ainda mais ele, tão acostumado a descartar meninas por aí. Para azar – ou sorte!? – de Ashtyn e Derek, o destino ainda guarda mais uma reviravolta na manga. Mesmo com hábitos, ideias e sonhos completamente opostos, um desejo incontrolável surge entre os dois e, juntos, eles enfrentarão o desafio de vencer os preconceitos e os tabus da cidade em que vivem, além de seus próprios medos, para se entregarem completamente a uma paixão avassaladora. Amor em jogo é o primeiro volume de uma bem-sucedida trilogia que se tornou uma verdadeira febre nos Estados Unidos, onde chegou a ser transformado numa websérie produzida pela própria autora e disponível no YouTube.

Es gibt sie noch... die große Liebe Zweimal schon hat Caleb Becker seinen Heimatort Paradise wegen Maggie Armstrong verlassen. Zweimal schon wollte er nichts mehr, als Maggie vergessen – Maggie, die er liebt und der er doch so viel Leid zugefügt hat. Und auch Maggie will vor allem eins: endgültig über ihre große Liebe Caleb hinwegkommen. Dann aber treffen sich Maggie und Caleb zufällig in den Sommerferien wieder, und auch wenn beide versuchen, sich aus dem Weg zu gehen, machen all die unterdrückten Gefühle ihnen alsbald einen Strich durch die Rechnung. Doch gerade, als die beiden ihrer Liebe eine Chance geben wollen, kommen die Schatten der Vergangenheit wieder hoch …

A fresh and fun repackage of Wild Cards, Better Than Perfect launches a romantic new series from New York Times bestselling author Simone Elkeles.After getting kicked out of boarding school, bad boy Derek Fitzpatrick has no choice but to live with his ditzy stepmother while his military dad is deployed. Things quickly go from bad to worse when he finds out she plans to move them back to her childhood home in Illinois. Derek's counting the days before he can be on his own, and the last thing he needs is to get involved with someone else's family drama.Ashtyn Parker knows one thing for certain—people you care about leave without a backward glance. So when her older sister comes home after abandoning her ten years earlier, with her hot new stepson in tow, Ashtyn wants nothing to do with either of them. Then she comes up with a plan that would finally give her the chance to leave, but it requires trusting Derek—someone she barely knows...

Luis Fuentes is a good boy who doesn't live with the angst that his big brothers, Alex and Carlos, have always lived with. Luis is smart, funny, and has big dreams of becoming an astronaut. But when he falls for the wrong girl, Luis enters a dark world he's never known, and just when he thinks he's got life all figured out, learns some disturbing news about his family that destroys his positive outlook on life. Will that Fuentes bad boy streak come out with a vengeance and lure Luis to live on the edge like his new girlfriend and his own father? Continuing all the steamy romance of the first two books, NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Simone Elkeles gives fans one more satisfying taste of the irresistible Fuentes boys.

A high-stakes story of star-crossed lovers f rom Simone Elkeles, the New York Times bestselling author of the Perfect Chemistry series To escape his abusive stepdad, bad boy Ryan Hess runs from his tiny Texas border town to Mexico. But his plans to keep his head down and stay out of trouble are shattered the minute he meets the beautiful and totally out of his league Dalila Sandoval. Dalila Sandoval shouldn’t even know someone like Ryan Hess. The daughter of one of the wealthiest lawyers in Mexico, Dalila is focused on studying and planning for her bright future. Ryan is only a distraction from her dreams, but she’s never felt more alive than when she’s by his side. Ryan and Dalila are wrong for each other in every way. And yet they can’t resist the sparks that fly when they’re together. But their love is like a flame burning too close to the fuse. Something is going to explode. Will their love be strong enough to survive? Or will it burn them both?

Eine absolut heiße Romeo-und-Julia-Geschichte! Jeden anderen hätte Brittany Ellis, wohlbehütete Beauty Queen und unangefochtene Nr. 1 an der Schule, lieber als Chemiepartner gehabt als Alex Fuentes, den zugegebenermaßen attraktiven Leader einer Gang. Und auch Alex weiß: eine explosivere Mischung als ihn und die reiche »Miss Perfecta« kann es kaum geben. Dennoch wettet er mit seinen Freunden: Binnen 14 Tagen wird es ihm gelingen, die schöne Brittany zu verführen. Womit keiner gerechnet hat: Dass aus dem gefährlichen Spiel alsbald gefährlicher Ernst wird, denn Brittany und Alex verlieben sich mit Haut und Haaren ineinander. Das aber kann die Gang, der Alex angehört, nicht zulassen …

Das Letzte, was Carlos Fuentes will, als er zu seinem Bruder Alex zieht, ist, es diesem gleichzutun. Denn weder ist Carlos bereit, auf sein Image als »Bad Guy« zu verzichten, noch mag er sich wie Alex und dessen Freundin Brittany in eine feste Beziehung begeben. Und schon gar nicht will Carlos sich auf seine Mitschülerin Kiara einlassen, denn sie ist das exakte Gegenteil der Mädchen, auf die er bislang abfuhr. Auch Kiara hat alles andere im Sinn, als mit einem arroganten Latino-Macho wie Carlos anzubandeln. Und doch ziehen sich Kiara und Carlos magisch an – und riskieren damit mehr, als sie je geglaubt hätten. Denn selbst wenn Carlos Kiara zuliebe sein ganzes bisheriges Leben über den Haufen wirft – in seiner ehemaligen Gang gibt es Leute, die das unter keinen Umständen zulassen wollen.

Eigentlich wollte Luis Fuentes sich auf der Hochzeit von seinem Bruder Alex mit dessen Freundin Brittany nur mit den Mädchen amüsieren – aber dann trifft er Nikki und verliebt sich postwendend in sie. Doch das Letzte, was Nikki will, ist, sich nach dem Fiasko mit Marco auf einen weiteren Latino-Macho einzulassen – und so gibt sie Luis einen Korb. Blöd nur, dass der überaus attraktive Luis ihr seit ihrem ersten Treffen partout nicht mehr aus dem Kopf geht! Noch blöder allerdings, dass Luis gerade, als die Sache zwischen ihm und Nikki ernst wird, in die Fänge der gefährlichen Latino Blood Gang gerät ...

Vic Salazar ist seit langem in Monica verliebt, die Freundin seines besten Freundes Trey. Doch Vic würde Trey nie verraten, der auch noch sein bester Kumpel im Footballteam ist. Also tut er so, als könnte ihm Monica egaler nicht sein. Monica ist zufrieden mit Trey, der solide und zuverlässig ist. Ganz im Gegensatz zu Treys undurchschaubarem Freund Vic, aus dem sie einfach nicht schlau wird. Doch als Vic sie in einem unvorhergesehenen Moment küsst, sprühen die Funken …

Als ihr Freund sie betrügt, indem er als Quarterback beim Erzrivalen anheuert, sieht die Football- Spielerin Ashtyn rot. Wenn sie die Meisterschaft nicht gewinnt, kann sie sich ihr Sportstipendium abschminken und wird in diesem elenden Nest hier in Illinois verschimmeln! Eine Idee muss her, um diese Schmach für das Team auszubügeln. Schnell hat Ashtyn einen genialen Plan ... Einziger Nachteil: Sie müsste diesen Bad Boy Derek einweihen. Einen Typen, der Ärger magisch anzieht. Sie weiß, es ist ein Spiel mit dem Feuer. Aber hat sie eine andere Wahl?

Moshav? What’s a moshav? Is it “shopping mall” in Hebrew? I mean, from what Jessica was telling me, Israeli stores have the latest fashions from Europe. That black dress Jessica has is really awesome. I know I’d be selling out if I go with the Sperm Donor to a mall, but I keep thinking about all the great stuff I could bring back home.  Unfortunately for 16-year-old Amy Nelson, “moshav” is not Hebrew for “shopping mall.” Not even close. Think goats, not Gucci. Going to Israel with her estranged Israeli father is the last thing Amy wants to do this summer. She’s got a serious grudge against her dad, a.k.a. “Sperm Donor,” for showing up so rarely in her life. Now he’s dragging her to a war zone to meet a family she’s never known, where she’ll probably be drafted into the army. At the very least, she’ll be stuck in a house with no AC and only one bathroom for seven people all summer—no best friend, no boyfriend, no shopping, no cell phone… Goodbye pride—hello Israel.

In this sequel to How to Ruin a Summer Vacation, EVERYTHING in sixteen-year-old Amy Nelson Barak's life is going wrong! Her mom got married and moved to the suburbs, and now they are going to have a baby. Amy moves in with her dad in Chicago and signs him up for an online dating service. His first four dates are that night . . . What else? Her dog Mutt impregnated her grumpy neighbor's prized poodle, so Amy will actually have to get a part-time job to pay for half the veterinary bill. And there's this totally annoying boy, Nathan Rubin, who just moved into her apartment building. Luckily, Amy has a cute boyfriend named Avi. Only he's more like a non-boyfriend considering Avi is in the Israeli army for the next three years. What's a girl to do when everyone is conspiring to ruin her life?

Amy Nelson-Barak, 17, is back in this third installment about a Jewish-American teen learning how to live and love in peace. She signs up for 10 days of training with the Israel Defense Force as soon as she finds out that her long-distance boyfriend, Avi, will be on base as well. But things turn out to be different from what she'd hoped for. She sleeps in a bunk bed underneath coils that look ready to give way, she's being worked to the bone, and the bathrooms are hardly up to her standards. Worst of all, Avi doesn't seem remotely thrilled that she's there. Is something going on between him and a fellow soldier? Strong, beautiful, and able to be with Avi all the time, Liron is everything Amy wants to be. Even though the plot is predictable, readers can't help but get drawn in by Amy's fun way of telling her story, and they learn a lot about Israeli teens' mandatory military service. Elkeles catches new readers up to speed in no time.

Brittany est belle, intelligente et douce. Elle sort avec le capitaine de l'équipe de football. Alex, terriblement séduisant, est connu pour être un membre du dangereux gang des Latino Blood. Tout les oppose jusqu'à ce cours de chimie et ce travail imposé en binôme. Au-delà des apparences, Alex et Brittany se rapprochent et se séduisent. Leur attirance, plus forte que les préjugés et les interdits, pourrait bien changer leur avenir... mais à quel prix ?

Contrairement à Alex et Carlos, Luis, le plus jeune des frères Fuentes, s’est toujours tenu à l’écart des gangs. Il rêve de faire des études et de quitter les quartiers défavorisés de Fairfield. Nikki Cruz est une jeune fille sage qui s'est promis de ne jamais sortir avec un garçon des quartiers populaires. Pourtant, quand elle rencontre Luis au mariage d’Alex, elle sent ses certitudes vaciller... D'autant plus que Luis semble décidé à la séduire ! Mais Chuy Soto, le chef des Latino Blood, ne compte pas laisser un frère Fuentes échapper à son gang. Et quand il révèle à Luis des secrets concernant sa famille, celui-ci remet en cause tous ses projets d’avenir... Ses sentiments pour Nikki seront-ils assez forts pour l'éloigner de la violence des gangs ?

Cuando Carlos Fuentes vuelve a los Estados Unidos tras vivir un año en México, no quiere tener nada que ver con la vida que su hermano mayor, Alex, ha construido para él en un instituto en Colorado. Carlos quiere vivir la vida a su modo y labrarse su propio camino —tal y como hizo Alex. Pero entonces conoce a Kiara Westford, una chica callada que está completamente intimidad por el salvaje carácter de Carlos. Carlos cree que Kiara piensa que ella es demasiado buena para él y se niega a admitir que quizás la joven se esté enamorando de él. Pero muy pronto se dará cuenta de que ser el mismo es justo lo que Kiara necesita.

Nothing has been the same since Caleb Becker left a party drunk, got behind the wheel, and hit Maggie Armstrong. Even after months of painful physical therapy, Maggie walks with a limp. Her social life is nil and a scholarship to study abroad—her chance to escape everyone and their pitying stares—has been canceled. After a year in juvenile jail, Caleb’s free . . . if freedom means endless nagging from a transition coach and the prying eyes of the entire town. Coming home should feel good, but his family and ex-girlfriend seem like strangers. Caleb and Maggie are outsiders, pigeon-holed as "criminal" and "freak." Then the truth emerges about what really happened the night of the accident and, once again, everything changes. It’s a bleak and tortuous journey for Caleb and Maggie, yet they end up finding comfort and strength from a surprising source: each other.

Nada ha sido lo mismo desde que Caleb Becker atropelló ebrio a Maggie Armstrong tras una fiesta alocada. A pesar de meses de terapia, Maggie no ha conseguido superar su cojera, su vida social es prácticamente nula y la solicitud para una beca que le permitiría estudiar fuera, y así escapar de las miradas de lástima que la rodean, ha sido cancelada. Caleb regresa a Paradise después de un año cumpliendo condena en un reformatorio. Pero la vuelta a casa se ha convertido en un infierno, su familia y su exnovia le parecen extraños y él siente que ya no encaja en ningún sitio. Caleb y Maggie se sienten rechazados por quienes les rodean. Pero cuando la verdad sobre el accidente sale a la luz, todo cambia de nuevo, y Caleb y Maggie solo se tendrán el uno al otro para superarlo.

Jeden anderen hätte Brittany Ellis, wohlbehütete Beauty Queen und unangefochtene Nr. 1 an der Schule, lieber als Chemiepartner gehabt als Alex Fuentes, den zugegebenermaßen attraktiven Leader einer Gang. Und auch Alex weiß: eine explosivere Mischung als ihn und die reiche »Miss Perfecta« kann es kaum geben. Dennoch wettet er mit seinen Freunden: Binnen 14 Tagen wird es ihm gelingen, die schöne Brittany zu verführen. Womit keiner gerechnet hat: Dass aus dem gefährlichen Spiel alsbald gefährlicher Ernst wird, denn Brittany und Alex verlieben sich mit Haut und Haaren ineinander. Das aber kann die Gang, der Alex angehört, nicht zulassen …

Los chicos del instituto Fairfield, en los suburbios de Chicago, saben que las bandas de South Side y North Side no son precisamente elementos compatibles. De modo que cuando la líder de las animadoras Brittany Ellis y el pandillero Alex Fuentes se ven obligados a trabajar como compañeros de laboratorio en clase de química, los resultados prometen ser explosivos. Pero ninguno de los dos adolescentes está preparado para la reacción química más sorprendente de todas: el amor. ¿Podrán romper con los prejuicios y estereotipos que amenazan con separarles?

Luis Fuentes es un buen chico que no vive con la angustia que sus hermanos mayores, Alex y Carlos, siempre han vivido. Luis es listo, divertido y tiene grandes sueños de convertirse en astronauta. Pero cuando se enamora de la chica equivocada, Luis se adentra en un oscuro mundo que no conocía, y justo cuando creía que tenía su vida encarrilada, se entera de unas perturbadoras noticias sobre su familia, que destruirán su forma optimista de ver la vida. ¿Surgirá esa vena mala de los Fuentes de golpe y atraerá a Luis a vivir en el límite como su nueva novia y su propio padre?

¿Será un mes suficiente para restaurar la confianza entre Caleb y Maggie? Por fin, el sorprendente final de Paradise. Hace ocho meses que Caleb se fue de Paradise, sin revelar a nadie el secreto que prometió llevarse a la tumba, y rompiéndole el corazón a Maggie. Pero el destino está empeñado en unirlos de nuevo, así que cuando vuelven a encontrarse en un “campamento de verano” aunque intentan ocultar la pasión que sienten el uno por el otro, no pueden evitar que los sentimientos afloren. Ha llegado el momento de que Caleb se enfrente a la verdad de lo que sucedió la noche del accidente, o el secreto que se interpone ente ellos destruirá lo que sienten el uno por el otro…

Caleb Becker left Paradise eight months ago, taking with him the secret he promised to take to his grave. If the truth got out, it would ruin everything. Maggie Armstrong tried to be strong after Caleb broke her heart and disappeared. Somehow, she managed to move on. She's determined to make a new life for herself. But then Caleb and Maggie are forced together on a summer trip. They try ignoring their passion for each other, but buried feelings resurface. Caleb must face the truth about the night of Maggie's accident, or the secret that destroyed their relationship will forever stand between them.

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Carlos Fuentes doesn't want any part of the life his older brother, Alex, has laid out for him in Boulder, Colorado. He wants to keep living on the edge, and carve his own path-just like Alex did. Unfortunately, his ties to a Mexican gang aren't easy to break, and he soon finds himself being set up by a drug lord. When Alex arranges for Carlos to live with his former professor and his family to keep him from being sent to jail, Carlos feels completely out of place. He's even more thrown by his strong feelings for the professor's daughter, Kiara, who is nothing like the girls he's usually drawn to. But Carlos and Kiara soon discover that in matters of the heart, the rules of attraction overpower the social differences that conspire to keep them apart. As the danger grows for Carlos, he's shocked to discover that it's this seemingly All-American family who can save him. But is he willing to endanger their safety for a chance at the kind of life he's never even dreamed possible?

A fresh and fun repackage of Wild Cards, Better Than Perfect launches a romantic new series from NY Times bestselling author Simone Elkeles. After getting kicked out of boarding school, bad boy Derek Fitzpatrick has no choice but to live with his ditzy stepmother while his military dad is deployed. Things quickly go from bad to worse when he finds out she plans to move them back to her childhood home in Illinois. Derek’s counting the days before he can be on his own, and the last thing he needs is to get involved with someone else’s family drama. Ashtyn Parker knows one thing for certain--people you care about leave without a backward glance. So when her older sister comes home after abandoning her ten years earlier, with her hot new stepson in tow, Ashtyn wants nothing to do with either of them. Then she comes up with a plan that would finally give her the chance to leave, but it requires trusting Derek—someone she barely knows, someone born to break the rules. Is she willing to put her heart on the line to try and get the future she wants?

When the only girl you want is the one you can't have... Bad boy Vic Salazar breaks all the rules except one: Don't make a move on your best friend's girl. It’s a Guy Code that Vic lives by. It doesn't matter that he's had a crush on her for years. Monika Fox is off limits. Monika has a secret of her own and when a tragedy throws her and Vic together, the only boy she trusts is the one she shouldn’t confide in. Vic. As Vic struggles to keep his distance, and Monika struggles with her secrets, will their wild connection violate every rule both vowed never to break—about relationships, about friendship, about love?