Jourdan Mathews has a secret, and she knows she needs to take this one to the grave. * * * Her life was never complicated: a college student with a close family, good friends, and a plan for her future as a doctor. Had that night had never happened, she might even have been called ordinary. But we're not made by ordinary moments. Now in her senior year, Jourdan is in freefall after a catalyzing summer that turned everything upside-down. Her friends know she's in trouble, and her parents hope they've done enough to save her, but Jourdan doesn't feel anything anymore. They say moving on happens slowly, but something needs to change fast before life moves on without her. Ryder Harris considers his life to be the farthest thing from "ordinary." He isn't just the kind-of-good basketball player that made him popular in high school. He is the kind-of-great that comes along once in a generation, a fact that has propelled him on a course which only attempts to reach for the stars. If you ask him, this isn't luck or special talent. No, Ryder Harris makes a point to focus himself, to remain undistracted. He's got priorities, and at the very top of his list is being drafted into the NBA. That dream is very close to becoming a reality his senior year, so close he can almost taste it. But the universe has a nasty habit of giving us what we need, not what we want. * * * part I - Jourdan & Ryder * * * Every Saint Needs a Sinner. Copyright. © May 2022. All Rights Reserved.

Isabella Smith knows enough about love to understand that it has no guarantees. And so, she is of the mind that she is done with love. The way she saw it, she had been burned enough by it for a lifetime and she didn't need it anymore. Nathan Price is in love. In love with a girl he'd lost and would never have again. He'd driven her away because of a series of stupid, selfish decisions. He couldn't deny that her exiting his life was his own fault, but that didn't mean he didn't miss her. The two were quite the pair, both stubborn and imperfect. Too oblivious to realize they needed each other and too scared to try. But when they are forced to be together again, months later, things might just take a turn for the better. Will they fight for their relationship or let each other walk away again? . . . Mrs. Elitist. Copyright © July 2020. All Rights Reserved.