Diabetes in Fiction

She was mine. Made for me. Born to ruin me. Evangelina: I lived my life surrounded by luxuries, love, and attention. While at the mercy of lies, death, and deceit. I was tired of being just a pretty face. The woman who always had to prove her worth. When tragedy tears yet another gash in my heart, he was there to help mend my grief. But there was a mystery hidden behind those alluring diamond eyes. A whisper of ghosts and trauma from his past. Red flags I knew I shouldn’t ignore. Yet I couldn’t help the feelings blossoming within me or the fire that scorched my skin under his touch. Derek Cain held promises of love and protection. But what if he was who I needed saving from? Derek: As a child, I knew nothing but hate and pain. I was a soulless, unlovable bastard bred into a killer. Bound by blood to the world’s most obscure and elite society of global puppeteers. For years, I fantasized about taking revenge on the man who’d abandoned me. And when his time finally came, that’s when I saw her . His weakness. Detective Evangelina Cruz was mine to taint, use, and ruin. Until the lines of vengeance and obsession blurred. And she consumed my every thought. Though my secrets would destroy her, I’d bathe the world in blood before letting her go. Would the love we forged in darkness prevail in the light of truth?

If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl - someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I’m as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experiment - not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters. I'm a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control: I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever. Now I’m running for my life with three of my supernatural friends - a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch - and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.

Two swimmers under pressure. One trying not to get close to anyone, the other trying to save their beloved camp. And a growing connection between them that makes everything messier. Ruby Hopkins has had the worst year of her life. Dropped from her high school’s swim team, nearly kicked out of school, and now newly diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, she is waiting for an opportunity to show the world that she can still have a future in the water. When a comeback comes in the form of an intensive summer training camp, she takes it with no hesitation. She just has one rule: no friends, no attachments, no chances to get hurt again. Eliana Marsh, team captain and rising social media star, is used to the pressure to perform. But behind their bubbly personality, Eliana is wrestling with their gender identity and what it could mean for their career in swimming. When Eliana learns the camp could close if the team does not place at the upcoming championship, they know it’s now or never to help coach the team to a win. For Eliana’s plan to succeed, they know training one-on-one with Ruby will help both of their times improve. And despite Ruby’s irritability, she agrees, slowly opening herself up to vulnerability that she never expected. With the championship fast approaching and recruitment season starting, Ruby and Eliana must decide what they are willing to risk, both in and out of the pool.

Charlie Green is the most popular fashion influencer in Nautville until her followers find out she gained her following through mind control. When her himbo boyfriend breaks up with her publicly, he reveals her ‘Glitch.’ The companies drop their contracts with her quicker than she can say ‘viral,’ and her following count dwindles way too close to double digits. Fallen from fame, she joins a reality dating show for Glitches in a desperate attempt to gain back her fame. She becomes quick friends with a tech heiress with invisibility and a villain with poisonous plant powers; and she becomes quick enemies with ‘The Pretty Power Posse,’ a girl with pink laser vision, a girl with irridescent hair, a girl who creates violet light beams, and another who manipulates scents. She’ll rebrand herself, gain back fame, and embrace her Glitch, all while attending cyber punk fashion shoots and extravegant dates in the clouds. And that’s the only reason she joins, she’s certainly not going to fall in love on a silly reality dating show.

After health problems wiped out their first few weeks of school, Perley and Amandine are both starting their Junior year behind their classmates, and both have major changes in their lives that they’re struggling to get used to. Perley was diagnosed with diabetes over the summer, and worries that all these new medical expenses will be a hardship on his family. And Amandine, part of a venerated family of vampires, has been turned much younger than she expected to be after a car accident nearly killed her. The two of them form a fast friendship – both feel a little out of step with their old lives, and as a bonus, it turns out that Amandine’s new vampire abilities can help Perley save money on blood glucose tests. But as the year goes on, they’re forced to admit that maybe their coping strategies – and their blood-sipping-turned-romance – aren’t working out so well after all. Will they be able to get their lives back to normal? Or will both have to figure out new ways for their “normal” to look?

Dacre Vinson has spent the majority of his life in quite the predicament—even the surf and his books can’t erase his Type 1 diabetes. But when Dacre’s family moves to a new Mexican town, an eccentric girl obsessed with trees offers him a job on the spot, leading to what could be the perfect distraction from his problems. Salbatora Tames has one true love—her avocado farm. Her family constantly nudges her to be more social, but Sal much prefers the dirt, the sun, and the solitude. Besides, trees listen better than people do. For Sal and Dacre, their job won’t stay easy breezy for long, not when an avocado delivery to Palenque, Mexico pops up on their radar. Together, they embark on a road trip across the jungle, where they form a tighter bond. However, as obstacles arise, their new-found troubles may lead to more woes than bliss.

Can a heroic vampire protect his clan from danger — and save himself from burning desire? As Prime of his vampire Family, Mathias Bridger is sworn to protect his own kind at any cost — but years of acting as a fierce guardian of his people have left him yearning for more out of life. His chance comes in the form of Phillipa Elliot, the beautiful police officer whose allure hasn’t dimmed in the two years since they had a brief, torrid affair. And though she’s involved with someone else now, Phillipa can’t deny the feeling that Matt is her destiny. When the Family comes under attack from fanatical vampire hunters, Matt uncovers treachery that shatters his world. So how can he possibly invite Phillipa into it? Fighting to protect his kin, he tries to push Phillipa away to the safety of her mortal life — but he aches for her, and his will is no match for the flames of their all-consuming passion. . . .

When a soldier with a troubled past and a struggling songwriter agree to a marriage of convenience for the military benefits, neither expects much after saying “I do.” Then tragedy strikes, and the line between what’s real and what’s pretend begins to blur in this smart and surprising romance perfect for fans of Nicholas Sparks and Jojo Moyes. Cassie Salazar and Luke Morrow couldn’t be more different. Sharp-witted Cassie works nights at a bar in Austin, Texas to make ends meet while pursuing her dream of becoming a singer/songwriter. Luke is an Army trainee, about to ship out for duty, who finds comfort in the unswerving discipline of service. But a chance encounter at Cassie’s bar changes the course of both their lives Cassie is drowning in medical bills after being diagnosed with diabetes. When she runs into her old friend Frankie, now enlisted in the Army, she proposes a deal: she’ll marry him in exchange for better medical insurance and they can split the increased paycheck that comes with having a “family.” When Frankie declines, his attractive but frustratingly intense friend Luke volunteers to marry Cassie instead. What she doesn’t know is that he has desperate reasons of his own to get married. In this unforgettable love story, Cassie and Luke must set aside their differences to make it look like a real marriage…unless, somewhere along the way, it becomes one…

It took a sudden heart attack and a long-coming diagnosis of type 2 diabetes for Dr. Cody Walker to admit he had to turn his life around and practice what he had preached all these years as a physician. With a second chance at life, he moves from Atlanta to the small town of Magnolia Hill to take over old Doc Porter’s practice. But saving his patients—and himself—from the grim outlook of preventable chronic diseases is easier said than done when Jenna’s cupcake bakery across the street from his practice is testing his—and his patients’—willpower to resist her sweet temptations. Jenna Wilson’s dream of owning a successful cupcake bakery had finally come true. However, that dream shatters when the grumpy new doctor in town accuses her of poisoning his diabetic patients with her sugary treats and threatens to shut down her shop. But when a natural disaster strikes close to home, they are forced to challenge their beliefs. Is there any hope Cody and Jenna can work out their differences and maybe even find love in this grumpy/sunshine enemies to lovers sweet romance?

Getting married at eighteen wasn’t the smartest idea but … I’d been in love. Bryce, with his perfect words, his money, and all-American good looks. He had pulled me in, and when he spit me out, I’d barely been left alive. Now at twenty two and divorced, I just wanted to build a life for myself on my own terms. Free of fear. First job. First crappy apartment. First taste of freedom. Enter Ethan King. The guy from high school I never had a chance with. As the leader of the local motorcycle gang, he’s not exactly an outstanding citizen, but he’s the one bright spot in my life. He’s exactly what I need right now. Until Bryce, who never could accept losing, decides he’s not ready to let me go. And if there is one thing I know about that monster, it’s that he has no problem destroying everything in my world. Only this time I have Ethan King. And no one messes with a King.

When a USO boat goes down in flames, test pilot Jimmy Gage pulls a scantily clad Chloe Nelson out of the shark-filled Mediterranean . Although she is grateful, and he’s as hot as the fire that took the boat down, the last thing Chloe needs is a jet-jock to be her bodyguard—until she inadvertently finds herself closer to Gage than she ever expected, and side by side in a dangerous mission… Gage is desperate to find a fellow airman, missing and reportedly held captive. A pub in Istanbul , controlled by a notorious and sadistic female adversary, may hold the key. Now, moving in toward untold dangers, Gage can’t afford to let his growing attraction to Chloe distract him for a second—or it may cost the lives of his crew, the prisoner they must rescue, and the woman he’s unable to resist.

A YA reimagining of Jane Austen’s Emma: a teenage matchmaker, recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, creates a Bachelor-style fundraiser where the winner gets to date her school’s most stubbornly-single guy—only to fall in love with the leading man herself. COMING SUMMER 2027