Heartsick

Quinn is looking forward to her senior year at Poe University. She has big plans to hang out with her best friend, flirt with a certain boy genius, party at her favorite dive bar and figure out what she''s going to do after graduation with her not-so-useful art major. But that''s before she meets Luke, a hot townie who''s moved back home to help take care of his dying sister. And it''s before a weird epidemic sweeps across campus, mysteriously turning people''s eyes purple.

Is it an odd side effect from a new party drug?

Is it a rogue virus developed in a campus lab?

Is it the mark of the devil?

Soon the town starts blaming the university and the student religious group becomes frighteningly aggressive in their on-campus accusations. Quinn and Luke are caught in the middle—until a tragic accident forces Luke to reveal the one part of himself he''s kept carefully hidden. That he''s so much more than the happy-go-lucky boy next door Quinn had believed him to be isn''t a surprise…but this truth might be too dangerous for her to handle.

81,000 words