Every month, Simon Teen opens a selection of its catalog for readers to enjoy — completely free of charge! By registering for a Simon Teen account, YA lovers can help themselves to a handful of full-length novels and a variety of extended excerpts and extras without spending a single cent. This month, Simon Teen celebrates Pride with some wonderful LGBTQ+ books. Whether you’re in the mood for whirlwind romance, court intrigue, or supernatural shenanigans, one of these free reads is sure to please.
Full Reads
If I See You Again Tomorrow by Robbie Couch
Poor Clark has been stuck in a time loop for nearly a year, forced to relive the same dreary Monday 309 times. Everything changes, however, on Monday #310, when new boy Beau shows up to Clark’s math class. With nothing to lose, Clark joins Beau on a whirlwind “errand trip” through Chicago — and ends up falling hard. But will this romance survive the time loop, or will Clark’s life revert back to the way it was?
Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick
Stevie and Nora have a plan: After graduation, they’ll ditch their families and their conservative small town for California, where they can love each other openly. Then Stevie has a fall — one that strips her memory of the last two years, and most importantly, of Nora. As Stevie struggles to adjust to a world and a life no longer familiar to her, Nora faces the possibility of losing the love of her life for good. Will they find a way to restore their relationship?
Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens
Looking to reunite with the magic he lost upon his grandmother’s passing, Edison Rooker takes a job with sorceress Antonia Hex. But trouble strikes when the Magical Consortium learns about Rook’s Spell Binder, an illegal magic detection device. With Antonia under attack, Rook must team up with Sun, the prickly (and attractive) apprentice to Antonia’s rival, Fable, in order to keep their magic.
Extended Excerpts
She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick
Alex Blackwood is great at getting girls — but terrible at keeping them. Molly Parker has no clue how to talk to her crush, Cora Myers. When their paths cross by chance on campus, the two strike a deal: Alex, newly single, will help Molly win over Cora. It’s a foolproof plan, except for one problem: They might just fall for each other instead.
Love at Second Sight by F.T. Lukens
As a human going to school among a supernatural student body, sophomore Cam Reynolds thinks he’s pretty ordinary. Then he’s hit with a psychic vision of a teen girl’s brutal murder. Turns out Cam’s no ordinary human after all: He’s a clairvoyant, one of the rarest supernatural beings of all. With everyone out to curry Cam’s favor, he and his friends must find the girl from his vision and thwart her would-be killer before it’s too late.
Till Death by Kellan McDaniel
About to leave for college, Howard has resigned himself to being alone. Then he meets George, a strangely old-fashioned boy who’s not what he seems. Nineteen on the outside, the vampiric George is older than he appears — and he’s about to lose James, the all-too-mortal love of his life. Despite the pressures of the outside world, Howard and George may just find the new lease on life they seek in each other.
A Traitorous Heart by Erin Cotter
It’s the year 1572, and tensions are brewing in France between the Huguenots and the Catholics. Jacqueline d’Argenson-Aunis, royal lady-in-waiting, has a plan: engineer a marriage between her mistress and former lover, Princess Marguerite de Valois, and the heir to the Huguenot throne, Henry. If she successfully pulls off this political matrimony, Jac may prove herself worthy of joining the Societas Solis, a secret order of spies. But all is not what it seems in the French royal court, and Jac begins to question everything she knows.
Prince of Fortune by Lisa Tirreno
As the future king of Saben, Prince Edmund has a lot to live up to. Long foretold, his illustrious destiny will see him rise from his shy beginnings into a great leader. What the prophecies don’t account for is Lord Aubrey Ainsley, a Seer who captures the young prince’s heart. When Saben is attacked, it’s up to Edmund and Aubrey to save its future — even if that future might not look how they thought it would.
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