I guess I can say I don't trust people. It's not really about the other people, its me. I'm protecting both myself, and them. Why would anyone want to be friends with a girl who's mother committed suicide causing her only daughter to be sent into foster care. A girl who has screwed up every foster home she's been sent to over the past year. A girl who doesn't feel like she's worth anything. She pushed everyone away so she could never be hurt, and so she could never hurt anyone ever again... Yet Alec was different. He pressed forward, not caring about her walls or anything. He doesn't run away when she yells at him, and tells him that she could never love him. That she couldn't ever love anyone. Alec still loves her, still cares about her. Even though he's made clear his feelings for me, and been rejected harshly, he still want's to be my friend. I don't want to hurt him...

ONE OF THE BOYS What girl doesn't want to be surrounded by gorgeous jocks day in and day out? Jordan Woods isn't just surrounded by hot guys, though-she leads them as the captain and quarterback of her high school football team. They all see her as one of the guys and that's just fine. As long as she gets her athletic scholarship to a powerhouse university. But everything she's ever worked for is threatened when Ty Green moves to her school. Not only is he an amazing QB, but he's also amazingly hot. And for the first time, Jordan's feeling vulnerable. Can she keep her head in the game while her heart's on the line? "Whoever said football and girls don't mix hasn't read Catching Jordan. I couldn't put it down!" - Simone Elkeles, New York Times bestselling author of the Perfect Chemistry series. ** Serialized with the permission of the publisher.