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Imagine a world where millions of people suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a condition that causes nightmares, flashbacks, anxiety, and depression. Now imagine a natural remedy that can heal their trauma and transform their lives: psilocybin mushrooms. These are not ordinary mushrooms that you find in the supermarket or in the forest. These are magic mushrooms that can alter your mind and open your eyes to new possibilities.

The first time I saw Saxton Crawford we were in high school. He was the football star and I was just another invisible teenage girl. Now, he is a famous quarterback and the bane of my existence. And by bane, I mean his presence has brought back 10 years of secrets. Ones I'd thought I'd dealt with. The minute he walks back into my life, I become that bumbling teenage girl all over again. I'm not having it! Even if the quarterback only has eyes for me. He's irresistible, too handsome for his own good, cocky, and carrying baggage no one wants.

Justine wakes to her android digital companion, DANA, attuned to her breath, heartbeat, and every emotion 365 days of the year. The year is 2410, and technology runs every facet of human life. Convinced humans have sacrificed their autonomy, Justine wants to unplug from the digital world. When she learns of the off-the-grid community of Merrick, she believes these people have the right idea.

One good girl. One bad boy. One night that leads to a magnificently beautiful disaster. Notorious party boy Zak Crawford turns sweet, straitlaced Delilah Flynn's world upside down. In return, the bubbly redhead is about to teach the famous guitarist just how wicked a good girl scorned can be.

Words and music...they need each other...I am broken. I am lost. The damage cannot be undone...Tyler "Twitch" Matthews is “the words”, but when tragedy strikes, he loses “the music”. To the world, he is just the sexy “blue-eyed” bad boy. Notorious for embracing all the perks of being a rock star...Money, women, drugs, partying, and fame...But, none of it will bring back his music...Behind the facade, this “rock star” is quickly unraveling...Plagued by the songs of his youth and on the brink of insanity, Twitch finds himself standing at a crossroads...

The character of the times in which we live is such as to call forth from us even this admonition, that we ought not to be astonished at the heresies (which abound) neither ought their existence to surprise us, for it was foretold that they should come to pass; nor the fact that they subvert the faith of some, for their final cause is, by affording a trial to faith, to give it also the opportunity of being “approved”. - Tertullian