She looks up at me, taking a step forward and smiling slightly, "How can I ever get hurt when I have you here to protect me?" "But you could have gotten hurt," I murmur softly, hanging my head and feeling my shoulders drop, the tension seeping from my body. "No. Stop," She cuts me off sternly but tenderly, "Don't talk like that, Reece. I'm okay, you're okay, we're okay," She speaks softly, reaching her hand up to gently brush her thumb over my cheek, just under the cut that's there. "We're okay," I repeat, taking a small step closer to her. She nods with a small smile, moving her hand down from my cheek and instead placing the palm of her hand on my chest, right over my heart. I know she can feel how fast my heart is beating. I just don't know why it's doing that. ~ Reece Carter is the bad boy of Northwood High. He smokes and he fights. He has countless tattoos covering his body. And he doesn't care about anything or anyone else. Layla Stevens is your average seventeen year-old girl, just trying to get through high school, with the friends she loves and doing the things she loves. When these two cross paths accidentally in an unusual way, they leave and never expect to speak to each other again. But fate has other plans. Layla finds her way into Reece's life and Reece doesn't know what to do about it. This ray of Sunshine suddenly meant something to him. She understood him when it seemed like no one else did. And he protected her from everyone who tried to hurt His Sunshine. Get ready for a story filled with bad pick-up lines, twin telepathy and a lot of fighting. Like, a LOT. Thanks for that one, Reece.

Skye Penderwick: stubborn yet determined, a brilliant aspiring astrophysicist with her head in the stars Jeffrey Tifton: caring and friendly, a talented musician who always has his friends and family at heart These two longtime childhood friends (best of friends, one might even say) return to summertime vacation destination Point Mouette as teenagers, four years after their first stay. As cool-headed logic meets irrational emotions, they struggle to understand each other -- and themselves. After all these years, what's changed...and what's stayed the same?

i have lived my whole life underground until now, today is the acceptance ceremony where i will go above ground and figure out all that was hidden to me while i was underground. i will meet new people and train to fight a war the was unknown to me while i was in the dark. I am Layna Mire.

This is the story of a girl who only wants someone to love, problem is, boys are stupid and cant decide what they want. it seems like nobody gets her, but Eventually, she finds something even better than love...