Iris BlackThere are moments in music when the crowd becomes part of the song, and we all lose ourselves to the energy. I wanted to drown myself in the music. It became my escape and my savior.I thought success was what I wanted, but it only intensified my misery. Fame is a monster, and it ate me alive. I tried it all to get out of my head: sex, drugs, and rock and roll. I'm living the dream, but it only numbs the pain.Caspian came into my life like ...

Welcome to Black Diamond Resort and Spa… and my exile…A guy in a skirt wouldn't turn a straight guy on, right?I spent the last decade performing next to him. I've never looked at him as more—until I walked in on him in a skirt.He's as broken as I am. We survived our childhood together. And when he's finally trying to embrace the parts his father tried to beat out of him, I can't handle it.He's taunting me with smeared eyeliner and a filthy s...

Caspian LockeI don't think we even begin to understand love until we've lost the one we thought we'd spend the rest of our life with. I don't think we begin to understand ourselves until we realize that it's most likely our fault. And I don't think we begin to understand life until we understand it comes in so many shades of gray.You can be a good person and still do irrevocable harm. Life is messy, so fucking messy. I hate it. Or maybe I hate myself. I tho...

My soul mate is my natural enemy.Or close enough. He's a vampire and I'm a wolf. Our kinds are at war. A centuries-old blood war.I can't stay away from him. I hate him, but I want him. Our love is a standoff. For every inch I take, he pushes a mile.The world is against us. But I'm so tired of fighting the ties between us.For every wolf that dies at the hands of a vampire, I feel more guilty. Yet I go to him over and over and we use each othe...

Saint VincentI might be the best-selling solo artist in the world, but my personal life is a disaster. For every number one album, there's a sea of my worsts, all documented in photos. Bad break-ups. Destroyed hotel rooms. Fights. Drugs. And just as many rumors.Every headline reaffirms the walls I've built around myself. Fame destroys everything it touches, and I can't let anyone close. The only exception is my best friend— Lowe Wilder.But I've fuck...

Alister FoxThe pretty boy. The loner. Old Hollywood.I had all kinds of names as the least-known member of the most famous band in the world. Behind all the hype and masks, I'm just a Pretty Wreck. No one knows the disaster I am, my secrets hidden behind style and a smile.I've been running for as long as I can remember, but I can't get away from the gilded cage of fame. I don't know how much longer I'll be able to keep it together.I'm forced ...

Have you ever loathed a person so intensely the sight of them made you contemplate homicide?First day of college, everyone is settling into their rooms, and in walks Jeff Woods—the blond bastard. He's arrogant, smart and an elite swimmer. Worst of all, everyone loves him. Only, he's also insufferable, flirty, and a sex god. He pushes every button I never knew I had—all with an air of indifference—like he doesn't know the effect it has on me.Did I mention he...

Emory KerWho makes out with a random guy at a club while someone else is giving him head? Not me—that's who. I'd never even hooked up with a stranger. Welp, now I had. If you could call what I'd done hooking up. But it was so much more intimate than a hook-up. I'd tasted his lips as someone else made him come. He'd gasped into my mouth.Now I'm sitting in front of him, and he's asking me to kiss him again.River WadeWe became ...

I never thought I'd go to college a virgin, but unless something changes—and fast—that's what's going to happen.In comes Harden Hart, my all-American boy-next-door best friend with an offer to help in a way I'd never imagined.The boy, who turned everything he touched to gold, had a filthy side to him I'd never seen. Oh, and did I mention he's straight?We could keep this fun, but we had to hide it from both our fathers. We could smile for the cameras...

My father's the president and my brother's the golden boy, which leaves me the black sheep; the son who never wanted to be here at all.The white house is my gilded cage, and the secret service are my prison guards. I'm nearly twenty and nothing about my life is normal.The only thing giving me life and any motivation to get out of bed is the way he looks at me. The stolen glances across the West Wing. Heated gazes in the private dining room.He's my f...

Movie star 101: A smile hides all pain.Quellcrist King has been playing a part his entire life. The more famous he becomes, the more he hides. The only person he ever let see the real him rose with him from nothing to the very top.They were the king and queen of Hollywood—and then she wanted a divorce. The only way to survive his depression is to bury himself in work. If he can be a character, maybe he won't have to remember himself. A gay role can't be any...

I've been kept away from my destiny as long as I've been alive.I'm the bastard, banished from Manhattan, and forbidden from my dream of playing college hockey for the Gods because no one can find out about me.But now Dad's dead, and guess who's in the will? So my dream of playing for the Gods can finally come true, but I have to find my place in my half-brother's shadow while dealing with my rival Teddy, who's been a thorn in my side since juniors.H...