Heartache High: The Primer

By Jon Jacks

You can never leave

Heartache High’s Primer for Students, as written by Stephanie Johnson, Heartache High Permanent Student.
Ever been in love with someone who didn’t even know you existed?
Or someone who broke up with you?
Congratulations; you’ve just enrolled at Heartache High.
Oh, but didn’t anyone tell you?
Once you’ve enrolled, you can never leave.
(Includes the first chapters of the soon to be released novel, Heartache High: The Wakening.)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jon Jacks
• Release date: May 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301777464

Jon Jacks

While working in London as, first, an advertising Creative Director (the title in the U.S. is wildly different; the role involves both creating and overseeing all the creative work in an agency, meaning you’re second only to the Chairman/President) and then a screenwriter for Hollywood and TV, I moved out to an incredibly ancient house in the countryside.On the day we moved out, my then three-year-old daughter (my son was yet to be born) was entranced by the new house, but also upset that we had left behind all that was familiar to her.So, very quickly, my wife Julie and I laid out rugs and comfortable chairs around the huge fireplace so that it looked and felt more like our London home. We then left my daughter quietly reading a book while we went to the kitchen to prepare something to eat.Around fifteen minutes later, my daughter came into the kitchen, saying that she felt much better now ‘after talking to the boy’.‘Boy?’ we asked. ‘What boy?’‘The little boy; he’s been talking to me on the sofa while you were in here.’We rushed into the room, looking around.There wasn’t any boy there of course.‘There isn’t any little boy here,’ we said.‘Of course,’ my daughter replied. ‘He told me he wasn’t alive anymore. He lived here a long time ago.’A child’s wild imagination?Well, that’s what we thought at the time; but there were other strange things, other strange presences (but not really frightening ones) that happened over the years that made me think otherwise.And so I began to write the kind of stories that, well, are just a little unbelievable.

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Heartache High:

The Primer

Heartache High’s Primer for Students,

as written by Stephanie Johnson,

Heartache High Permanent Student

Jon Jacks

Other New Adult and Children’s books by Jon Jacks

The Caught

The Rules

Chapter One

The Changes

Sleeping Ugly

The Barking Detective Agency

The Healing

The Lost Fairy Tale

A Horse for a Kingdom

Charity

The Most Beautiful Things

The Last Train

The Dream Swallowers

Nyx; Granddaughter of the Night

Jonah and the Alligator

Glastonbury Sirens

Dr Jekyll’s Maid

The 500-Year Circus

P

The Endless Game

DoriaN A

Wyrd Girl

Heartache High

Coming Soon

Heartache High: The Wakening

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Chapter 1

At some point in their lives, most people enrol at Heartache High.

But anyone who enrols can never leave.

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Chapter 2

You know how it is; you fall for a guy, you work out the wonderful times, the amazing future you’re going to have together.

You know; nights out at the movies. Or staying in, watching that sitcom you both fall about laughing at. Weekends spent down the mall together, or out with a group of friends who think, wow, are they the real item or what?

Oh yeah, but you forgot one