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Seventeen-year-old Scottie can’t catch a break. First there’s the embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, and then she gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, Irene. Irene is as mean as she is beautiful, and Scottie makes a point to keep her distance, only their car accident means the girls are forced to ride together to school. But when an opportunity arises for Scottie to get back at her toxic ex she convinces Irene to take part in a fake-dating scheme that threatens to reveal some very real feelings.

Fourteen-year-old Abby uses alcohol to numb her emotions when a video of her cheating, famous father broadcasts on the news. Tensions build with the betrayal of friends and a narcissistic stepmother, whom Abby refers to as "the Kat creature." Eventually, alcohol takes its toll when Abby jumps from a para-sail to search for a flask she dropped in the ocean. But that's not what nearly kills her. Abby uses snarky humor to guide the reader on her journey into the depths of alcoholism and the not so easy road back.

Rowan is 15, and likes what the mirror shows her. Life is messy but she's not the kind to talk about it. When her hair begins to fall out, her French granny, Sylvie, takes her to Paris clinics and salons, but her new chic style soon falls apart. School resumes after the summer but Rowan can't face her friends or the boy she fancies - even before she loses the last hair on her head. But at an Alopecia UK support group, she meets Daisy Waterhouse.