So, this story is about a girl named Jesse. She is 13 and has learning problems. She is in 6th grade. She makes only 1 A on every report card and she tries to get all the help she can get. She has 5 friends and they have been friends since 1st grade. So, one day she was in class and they were doing math problems and Jesse got called on. The teacher asked her to do 5 + 5 and Jesse tried to answer it but she kept stumbling and she got it wrong. Everyone started to laugh and call her names. Keep reading to find out more.

Ever since photographer Lacy Maguire caught her ex playing Pin the Secretary to the Elevator Wall, she's been content with her dog Fabio, her three cats, and a vow of chastity. But all of that changes when the reindeer-antlered Fabio drags in a very desperate, on-the-run detective who decides to take refuge in her house -- a house filled with twinkling lights and a decorated tree. (Okay, so it's February, but she has a broken heart to mend, a Christmas-card shoot to do, and a six-times divorced, match-making mother to appease.) For the first time in a looooong while, Lacy reconsiders her vow. Because sexy Chase Kelly, wounded soul that he may be, would be an oh-so-delicious way of breaking her fast. Now, if she can just keep them both alive and him out of jail....