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This edited volume features a range of essays from world-leading philosophers discussing the key philosophical concepts of 'object' and 'property'. Arguably, these are two of the most fundamental concepts in metaphysics. Nor is it hard to see why. If one of the central goals of metaphysics is to uncover what reality is like, in and of itself, then a natural starting point is the idea that reality involves two basic kinds of item: objects and properties. Notably, it seems hard to define one without the other: objects are things that have or instantiate properties; properties are the things that objects have, or that are instantiated by objects. Both concepts seem to be equally central to the volume's conceptual scheme--so much so that it is difficult to express truths about how things stand in the world without implicitly assuming the existence of these two ontological categories. Objects and Properties: New Perspectives collects original chapters from analytic metaphysicians working on objects and properties to showcase state-of-the-art research and to highlight the diversity of current work in this area. The volume offers in-depth discussions of debates ranging from grounding and metaphysical explanation to reduction, truthmaking, pluralism versus monism about material objects, intrinsic versus extrinsic properties, the philosophy of colour, the mind-body problem, processual views of material objects, change, modality, persistence, and composition.

Viv and Shay have known each other since they were fifteen.What started as something unsteady and unexpected has become something constant; woven into the rhythm of their everyday lives. They talk constantly, share pieces of themselves no one else gets, and orbit each other in a way that feels unavoidable. Not quite simple friendship, not quite anything else either.As the years pass, life begins to pull them in different directions. New relationships form. Ambitions shift. Distance grows in ways that don't always show on a phone screen. But even with everything changing around them, neither of them fully lets go.Because some connections don't end; they just evolve into something harder to define.When the tension between what they say and what they feel finally becomes impossible to ignore, Viv is forced to confront what Shay really is to her: comfort, complication, or something she's been avoiding naming for years.The Things That Pulled Us Under is a story about intimacy without clarity, love without definition, and the people who stay in your life long after you realize they might be the most important part of it.

After everything they survived—addiction, betrayal, disappearance, and the kind of grief that rewrites a life—Noah Hayes and Luna Monroe are finally moving toward something that looks like peace.Their wedding is set for spring. Olivia is safe. The future, for the first time, feels possible.But healing has a way of stirring up what was buried instead of silencing it.As Noah tries to build a life beyond the violence of the past, old wounds begin shifting beneath the surface. A letter brings an apology she never expected. Months pass. Then, on the edge of everything she thought was settled, one dark discovery threatens to pull memory, love, and trust back into dangerous territory.Tender, haunting, and sharp with suspense, Until Memory Do Us Part is a story about surviving what should have destroyed you—and learning that even after justice, the past can still be waiting.

Noah Hayes never meant to become the kind of girl who stays.Luna Monroe never meant to become the kind of girl who is asked to.In Crescent Cove, their relationship has always lived in the spaces between almost—best friends and something more, open windows and shut drawers, soft mornings and the fear that follows them. But after prom changes everything, Luna panics under the weight of being loved and Noah is left trying to survive the morning after.When Luna boards a train and disappears into the gray light, Noah is forced to face the one thing she has spent her whole life outrunning: staying. For two girls caught between longing and leaving, love might not be enough to make them brave—but it may be enough to keep the window open.The Train Leaves Anyway is a haunting, intimate story about first love, self-destruction, and what it means to remain when the person you love chooses motion over staying.

Noah Hayes has spent months perfecting the art of disappearing in plain sight. In Crescent Cove, everyone thinks they know her—until the pills, the lies, and the people who love her start cracking everything open.Luna Monroe came back hoping love could fix what fear destroyed. Jude knows too much. Marcy is done looking away. And Noah is running out of places to hide.As betrayal, addiction, and desire tighten around them, Noah is forced to choose between being saved and being lost for good. In a town built on beautiful surfaces and ugly secrets, one thing becomes impossible to ignore:nobody gets out clean.

The woman I am today could not have saved the girl I was ten years ago.At fifteen, Cleo Calloway believes reinvention is survival. With glitter under her eyes, art in her hands, and a desperate hunger to be wanted, she falls hard for the kind of boy who knows exactly how to make danger feel like love.Ten years later, Cleo looks back on the girl she was—the lies she told, the people who tried to save her, and the night everything began to unravel. As more girls step forward and long-buried truths rise to the surface, she must reckon with the version of herself she once blamed for not knowing better.Raw, lyrical, and haunting, The Girl I Couldn't Save is a coming-of-age novel about survival, memory, and learning that coming home to yourself can be the bravest thing of all.

Nolan Beckett planned to keep his new security job simple: work his shifts, enforce the rules, and go home without letting anyone get too close.Then Beck sees potential in him that he cannot yet recognize. Audrey teaches him that friendship can survive silence and change. Adriana shows him that caring for someone does not mean asking them to stay.Between patrols, incident reports, smoke breaks, and a group chat called Walking HR Violations, Nolan begins to understand that his coworkers have become something more—friends, mentors, and maybe even family.Somewhere Between the Buildings is a warm, funny story about chosen family, professional growth, and learning that belonging does not have to be temporary.

Noah has done what once felt impossible: she has stayed.But sobriety does not erase the wreckage. It only forces her to face it.After addiction tears through her life, Noah is left standing in the aftermath with a mother who almost lost her, friends who knew more than she realized, a boy who helped her disappear, and Luna—the girl she still loves, but cannot survive by leaning on the way she once did.As old wounds reopen and truths refuse to stay buried, Noah has to learn that forgiveness is not the same as access, love is not the same as rescue, and recovery means more than simply putting the pills down. It means becoming strong enough to stay, even when everything in her still wants to run.Raw, intimate, and aching with honesty, Sober Enough to Lose You is a novel about addiction, first love, grief, and the brutal courage it takes to choose yourself.

Noah Hayes has spent most of her life mastering the art of disappearing in plain sight. In Crescent Cove, everyone thinks they know her—the sharp mouth, the dead-eyed stare, the reckless reputation—but no one sees the quiet wreckage underneath.Then Luna Monroe climbs through her window.Luna is bright where Noah is dark, impulsive where Noah is guarded, and impossible to ignore. What starts as late-night conversations in Noah's room turns into something neither of them knows how to name—messy, magnetic, and dangerous in all the ways that matter.But both girls are carrying more than they let anyone see. As old wounds, self-destruction, and the fear of being truly known begin to close in, Noah and Luna are forced to decide whether wanting someone to stay is enough to save them—or whether some beautiful things are meant to break quietly.Set against the restless backdrop of Crescent Cove, Enough to Stay is a haunting, intimate story about love, self-destruction, and what it means to let someone in before it's too late.

When Noah Hayes survives the house that was supposed to kill her, survival doesn't feel anything like safety. Jude is dead. The people who destroyed him have finally been exposed. And yet the damage they left behind is still living inside everyone who loved him.As Noah struggles through pain, memory loss, and the brutal work of learning how to live in her body again, Luna refuses to let her disappear into the wreckage. But healing is complicated, grief is louder than ever, and the fight for Olivia forces every fracture to the surface.Then one final thing Jude left behind begins to speak, and everything shifts again.Dark, intimate, and emotionally sharp, The Dead Don't Stay Silent is a novel about survival, recovery, grief, and the kind of love that refuses to go quiet.

Viv has always measured her life in color, deadlines, and the quiet pressure to become someone worth remembering. At art school, she's supposed to be thriving; surrounded by talent, possibility, and the promise of a future built on creativity. Instead, she feels like she's slowly disappearing into expectations that don't feel like her own.When her friendship with Shay begins to blur the line between comfort and complication, and the weight of comparison becomes impossible to ignore, Viv is forced to confront a question she's been avoiding for years: what happens when the life you chose stops feeling like yours?Leaving doesn't fix everything. It doesn't magically make her confident, successful, or certain. But it does give her something she hasn't had in a long time; space to breathe, to rebuild, and to figure out what her art means when no one is telling her what it should be.The Things That Held Us Up is a raw, coming-of-age story about friendship, identity, and the quiet unraveling that leads to becoming.

Vivienne Martin is finally being seen.After years of fighting for her place in the art world, Viv's career is reaching heights she once only imagined. Her paintings are selling, her name is becoming known, and Vale Contemporary is ready to shape her into the kind of artist everyone wants to watch.But success does not arrive quietly. As Viv steps deeper into a world of collectors, expectations, image, and reinvention, the people closest to her begin to notice the ways she is changing; and the ways she is still running from the truths she does not know how to face.At home, Iris remains the person who sees Viv beyond the polished version the world applauds. Shay is still present too, sober and trying, carrying a history that refuses to stay in the past. And Elena, sharp as ever, watches the cracks form before anyone is ready to name them.Tender, emotional, and quietly devastating, The Things We Couldn't Keep is a story about ambition, love, identity, chosen family, and the painful truth that some things can only survive when they are finally brought into the light.

Noah Hayes is learning that survival is not the same thing as living.Six months sober and standing at the edge of graduation, Noah is trying to build a future that does not feel like another way to disappear. With Luna Monroe beside her and old memories still finding their way through unlocked windows, Noah must figure out what it means to love someone without losing herself.But some ghosts do not leave quietly. Some doors only open after everything falls apart. And sometimes the bravest thing a person can do is stay.Tender, sharp, and deeply intimate, The Future We Didn't Run From is a coming-of-age story about queer love, grief, recovery, and the terrifying beauty of choosing a life you never thought you would get to keep.

Noah Hayes knows how to survive by making everything a joke—grief, love, relapse, the sharp edges of becoming someone new. At college in New York, sobriety is fragile, finals are brutal, and the girl she loves is learning that loving someone through addiction can change you forever.Luna Monroe is carrying her own fractures: a family that loves her quietly, a father who refuses to say her name, and an art practice built from the things that hurt the most.As Noah fights to stay sober and Luna tries to reclaim the parts of herself she had to leave behind, the two of them are forced to ask whether love can survive outside of crisis—or whether they have only ever known how to save each other in emergencies.Tender, raw, and darkly funny, The Things That Changed Us Forever is a story about grief, recovery, chosen family, and the moments that split a life open and leave you changed forever.

When Jude dies in the ICU after a forced overdose, everyone calls it tragic. Noah Hayes knows tragedy is too clean a word.Jude left behind a newborn daughter, a hidden box of cassette tapes, and one small clue pointing to Willow House—a place he was never supposed to return to. As Noah and Luna begin pulling at the loose threads, grief turns into obsession, and the story they were given starts to rot in their hands.But the truth about Jude's death is bigger, crueler, and far more personal than either of them imagined. And the closer Noah gets to it, the more dangerous it becomes to keep looking.Dark, intimate, and unflinchingly tense, The Last Place They Looked is a novel about love, addiction, betrayal, and what happens when devotion leads you straight into the mouth of something hungry.

Vivienne Martin is finally getting everything she once dreamed of.After years of fighting to be seen, her art has carried her into the world of Vale Contemporary, one of the most prestigious galleries in the country. With national attention, sold paintings, and a future larger than anything she imagined, Vivienne should feel like she has arrived.But success comes with expectations. The clothes. The image. The pressure to always look composed, marketable, and photo ready. As Vivienne steps further into a world that celebrates her work, Viv begins to wonder how much of herself she is being asked to leave behind.Back home, the people who know her best are still dealing with the hurt she caused when she kept her biggest decision from them. Iris, Elena, and Shay each carry their own version of betrayal, love, and silence, and none of them can keep pretending that everything is fine.As old wounds rise to the surface and unspoken truths become harder to contain, Viv must face the cost of becoming someone the world wants—and whether the people who loved her before the spotlight can still reach the person underneath.Emotional, intimate, and full of tension, The Things We Couldn't Hide is a story about ambition, betrayal, identity, and the truths that eventually demand to be seen.

Viv Martin thought survival would feel more like freedom.After years of loving Shay through addiction, relapse, recovery, and everything left broken between them, Viv is finally learning how to live beyond the emergency. Her art is changing, her world is opening, and for the first time in a long time, someone new makes her feel like happiness might not have to come with guilt.Iris is warm, honest, and unafraid of complicated things. She sees Viv not as someone damaged by the past, but as someone still becoming. But as Viv begins to move toward something new, Shay is forced to face a truth she has buried beneath jealousy, fear, and old habits: she is still in love with Viv.Determined not to turn her feelings into another burden Viv has to carry, Shay keeps the truth to herself. But silence has a weight of its own, and as the lines between friendship, love, healing, and letting go become harder to define, all of them must learn what it means to make room for the past without letting it decide the future.Tender, emotional, and unresolved in all the right ways, The Things We Left Unsaid is a story about love that lingers, truths that wait, and the people we become when we finally stop running from what we feel.

Noah Hayes thought the worst was over.Carter is gone. Delaney is in prison. Olivia is finally home. And for the first time in a long time, Noah and Luna are trying to build something that feels like a future instead of survival.But peace does not come easily to people like them.When Delaney vanishes under suspicious circumstances and an unknown caller begins pulling Noah into a new game, old wounds split back open. Someone is watching. Someone knows exactly where to hurt her. And this time, the target is not just Noah—it is everyone she loves.As secrets tighten, loyalties fracture, and the line between guilt and forgiveness blurs, Noah is forced to confront a terrifying question:What do we owe the people who destroyed us—and what does it cost to answer?Dark, intimate, and razor-sharp, What We Owe the Guilty is a story of love, fear, survival, and the terrible weight of mercy.