May Fredericks hates New York. Which is fair enough, since New York seems to hate her back. Just weeks after moving from Wisconsin to Manhattan, she receives the world's worst marriage proposal, stabs her boyfriend with a shrimp fork in a very public venue, and accidentally becomes notorious. And that’s before she gets mugged. At her wit's end, May washes up at a Packers bar in Greenwich Village, where she meets a surly, unhelpful guy who hates her shoes and calls her ex a douche. His name is Ben. He used to be a chef. Now he's a rooftop beekeeper with anger management issues. She wouldn't even like him, but he reminds her of home … and he knows where to find all the best food in the Village. She makes him laugh. He buys her tacos and cowboy boots. The longer they’re stuck together, the better May and Ben get along … and the harder they fall. TRULY is a quirky, modern New York love story unlike any you've read before. ********* About the Serialization TRULY, the first novel in Ruthie Knox’s forthcoming New York Series, will be serialized in its entirety on Wattpad. Look for chapters every Monday from September 3 through November 4! Once completed, the full Wattpad version of TRULY will be pulled, so be sure to read it while it's still available! TRULY will be published by Loveswept/Random House in Fall 2014. Two sequels — MADLY and COMPLETELY — will follow. If you like this book and want to read more by me, check out my full list of publications here: http://www.ruthieknox.com/books

❝how i wish to be free like a spring butterfly❞ a collection of what-nots and distant memories. (c) Farah. 2013.

Blake Smith was a thinker, not a lover and she admitted herself that her books would be her one and only love. Gabriel Tallen was a crazy, reserved yet passionate rockstar his shell seeming to close just a little more around him for each day. Maria Zielinska was a lonely girl dreaming of true love; a fairytale that seemed to go all wrong for her. Alexander Storm was scared. Of life, his parents and the closet he had trapped himself in. 4 messed up teens. 1 summer. 1 crazy story. Copyright © 2013,afflictions

disclaimer: i began working on this book in 2012. i was twelve, and bored, so a majority of the first chapters are cheesy, or bizarre. my apologies. i'll do my best to give life advice for girls, however i doubt this will ever actually get to one thousand.

Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. * * * NOTE AS OF 04/2026: This is the old version of the story from 2012. It is currently being reprised, which you can also find under my profile here in wattpad as "5:48 [reprised]"