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Everyone knows Shawn Hunter is the wild one-the lovable troublemaker from the trailer park, best friends with Cory Matthews, and the boy who lives for chaos. He's perfectly comfortable being an outsider looking in.
But when Paige Miller moves into the perfect, white house next door, Shawn's world gets a massive shake-up. Paige is effortlessly gorgeous, immensely popular, and universally admired-a "golden girl" who seems to float above the drama of high school life.
She is, by all social measures, entirely out of Shawn's league.
Yet, despite their opposite worlds, Paige possesses a genuine kindness that cuts through Shawn's cynicism, and Shawn holds an emotional honesty that intrigues Paige beyond her polished social circle.
Through middle school mishaps, high school heartbreaks, and college struggles, this is the story of the popular girl who chooses the outsider, and the bad boy who finally learns to believe in the goodness right next door.