Mina's life is going according to plan; she's acing AP Calc and is perfectly content with her nonexistent social life. Though only a high school junior, Mina knows time is an investment, and she's putting all her capital into academics. Oliver, a child abuse survivor who grew up in the foster care system, is ready to burn down his old life and start from scratch-complete with a new name and emancipation papers-in L.A. When the two are thrown together through circumstance and develop an unexpected connection, they discover how hard it is to keep the past in the past.

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Love and Other Sins is an emotional coming-of-age YA drama about family, love, violence, and the residue of abuse set against the backdrop of contemporary Los Angeles. When Mina meets Oliver, you'll remember your own first love and just how fast it swept you under.

What were the bonds that bound us?

Was it purely physical attraction?

Circumstance?

Or perhaps it was a mutual gravitation toward inevitable pain.

"There was something about her-her eyes. Well, not so much her eyes, physically, but more like what they said about her: she had this look-a kind of restless intensity."

"It was intimate . . . a strange and beautiful feeling. We were breathing life into each other."

Love and Other Sins is a moving story about what it means to be young and vulnerable in today's society. This young adult romance will make you laugh and cry and give you hope for tomorrow because there are people like Mina and Oliver who refuse to let themselves be defined by their pasts or circumstances. If you love reading books like Looking for Alaska or Thirteen Reasons Why, then this is definitely for you.

Content warning: sexual assault, recollections of child abuse, discussions of suicidal thoughts, and mention of miscarriage.

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Summer Views by SOZI

[Verse]
Highways and airplanes
Let’s hit the road
Places I want but can never go
Waiting for the moment to take control 
So let’s just go

[Pre Chorus]
I wanna sail in Venice
Eat all the pasta too
And then wake up in Paris
And just enjoy the view 
Soak up the sun in Bali 
And jump in water too
Yeah I love these
Summer views

[Chorus]
Yeah I love summer views
Yeah I love 
Yeah I love
Summer views 
Yeah I love summer views 
(ah ah oh oh) 

[Verse] 
Jet skis and fast cars
I love a thrill 
Dancing in moonlight
Could be so chill
Tired of dreaming and saying no
So let’s just go

[Pre Chorus]
I wanna sail in Venice
Eat all the pasta too
And then wake up in Paris
And just enjoy the view 
Soak up the sun in Bali 
And jump in water too
Yeah I love these
Summer views

[Chorus]
Yeah I love summer views
Yeah I love 
Yeah I love
Summer views 
Yeah I love summer views 
(ah ah oh oh) 

Written by Sofia Zorian and Levi Greenberg
Produced by SOZI and Levi Greenberg
Mastered by Stan Greene

Summer Views

Drinking For Two by SOZI

Counting squares on the ceiling like stars
Don't wanna do something new
Hear the trees wrestle in the dark
Can't have a good time for you

I, I don't wanna feel this paradise
I, I'm just gonna shut the blinds and

I'm staying in, staying in
This time
Double shot, set it up on my bedside
And I'm drinking for two tonight

Tonight I'm drinking for two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Tonight I'm drinking for two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Tonight I'm drinking for two

If you were here, I would never let go
Hold me in the deep blue sea
In these waves I feel alone
Even though I've got friends with me

I, I don't wanna feel this paradise
I need you here, you're nowhere near me
Just gonna shut my eyes and

I'm staying in, staying in
This time
Double shot, set it up on my bedside
And I'm drinking for two tonight

Tonight I'm drinking for two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Tonight I'm drinking for two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Tonight I'm drinking for two (Two, Two, Two, Two)

I'm on vacation but I miss your trouble
The sort of love you can't leave at home
So every shot I take is a double
I clink my drink into the phone
With you (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)
You (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)
You (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)
You (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)

Tonight I'm drinking for two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Tonight I'm drinking for two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Tonight I'm drinking for two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Tonight I'm drinking for two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Two (Two, Two, Two, Two)
Tonight I'm drinking for two

Written by Sofia Zorian and Zachariah Carlson 
Produced by Famous Friend

Drinking For Two

Emilia Ares is an Armenian-American actress best known for American Horror Story and Bosch, producer and now the author of Love and Other Sins. Emilia graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with her Bachelor’s in Economics and a Minor in Russian.

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Emilia Ares

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