SlammedFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us, Colleen Hoovers romantic, emotion packed debut novel unforgettably captures all the magic and confusion of first love, as two young people forge an unlikely bond before discovering that fate has other plans for them. Following the unexpected death of her father, eighteen year old Layken becomes the rock for both her mother and younger brother. She appears resilient and tenacious, but

That is until Dorothy’s date is found dead—face-planted in an otherwise scrumptious-looking cheesecake

Flames are spreading

to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur

an unlikely hero emerges

titled The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

With money running out and danger seemingly around every corner

and the lives they built with other people

making the package as beautiful as the read

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The scale and grandeur of Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor

the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama