8.5OngoingEvery school has a bully.
At Peace Staff Secondary School, Teni, Melinda and Daniella face questions of identity, tensions within their families, difficulties in love and rivalries.
8.5At Peace Staff Secondary School, Teni, Melinda and Daniella face questions of identity, tensions within their families, difficulties in love and rivalries.
7.7Regina looks back on discovering love early and struggling to sustain it. Her account follows the effort to balance relationships, schoolwork and a social life while growing up.
8.8After her father’s death, Sandra chooses a less expensive marketing qualification and graduates with distinction. An internship fails to become permanent employment, while she remains responsible for household costs and her siblings’ university expenses. Financial pressure leads her into sex work. Her mother Maria Johnson continues making demands, including money for hairdressing, prompting Kelvin to question the fairness of what Sandra is expected to provide.
8.1Sebastian Michaelson once hoped to transform music and wrote songs for the important moments of his life. Disappointment makes him put down his instruments and retreat into Green Valley’s everyday gossip. A woman arriving on a stormy night challenges that withdrawal, embodying things he both avoids and seeks. The encounter raises the possibility of participating in life again instead of remaining an observer.
9.4Emily is drawn to school friends whose rebellious confidence seems to offer excitement and acceptance. Following them damages her studies, honesty and relationships with people who care for her. Regret grows, but leaving the group feels difficult. A solitary moment in a park forces her to recognize how far her choices have taken her from the person she hoped to become.
8.4A close group fractures during high school as heartbreak and bullying change their relationships. The heroine escapes a life that no longer feels safe, then survives years of difficult experiences before returning. The boy who hurt her confronts guilt over the person she has become. Reunion brings old friendships, home and school into contact with unresolved pain and change.
9.4Ava and Jace have shared life since first grade, repeatedly finding their way back through childhood and teenage uncertainty. College brings deeper feelings and the question of romance. Poor timing and unexpected turns test their belief that they belong together. The friendship's history offers security, but moving beyond it means risking the bond that has always anchored them.
9.4Fifteen-year-old Amelia Dawn learns from her adoptive parents that they took her in from werewolves and now intend to send her back. Discoveries about her best friend, boyfriend and family undermine the life she thought she knew. Thrown into an unfamiliar wolf world, she must adjust to its existence and reconsider whom she can trust as she navigates her changed circumstances.