Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Xander Years, Vol. 1 (The Xander Years, #1)

"This is new territory for me. My valentines are usually met with heartfelt restraining orders." 
         Xander Harris's love life is no walk in the park. Unfulfilled crushes. Awkward first conversations. A date who wants you...dead. There's that whole unrequited love thing he has going for Buffy, let's not even talk about how he feels about his best friend, Willow, and how could anyone forget his love-hate dating relationship with Cordelia!  Let's face it having a Y-chromosome in Sunnydale is never easy.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
's friend Xander Harris seems to find more than his share of trouble with the opposite sex. 
         Now, collected for the first time, are three stories based on the teleplays from the hit TV series chronicling Xander's search for love on the Hellmouth.  Includes an eight-page color photo insert.
        

Included are:

        At first Xander is happy being the teacher's pet -- until his schoolboy crush brings out her true animal instincts in
Teacher's Pet
by David Greenwalt.
      Then his whirlwind romance with the exotic foreign exchange student falters when she demands the ultimate sacrifice in
Inca Mummy Girl
by Matt Kiene & Joe Reinkemeyer.
         Some members of the Slaying squad might say that dating Cordelia Chase could kill a guy. But Xander's relationship with the high-maintenance Cordy actually seems to be working out -- until she decides he's seriously harming her social standing. His crafty plan to win her back may earn him more love than one guy can handle in
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
by Marti Noxon.