After a year of being bullied, to being ignored, to being completely invisible, something snaps inside the geeky nerd girl of Great Baddow High School.
No one likes her, no one wants to be around her, or talk to her, no one will even look at her, instead all they do is talk about her amongst themselves.
Finally she had enough.
Her breakdown is violent, and results in her departure from GBHS, from her town, and from the lives of everyone who knew her, or knew of her existence anyway.
Now Ace Daniels back and, with the help of friends made during her time away, is going to rearrange the system that crushed her in it's sweaty hands all that time ago. All the pent up anger, the rage, all the emotions that she keeps inside are going to surface, the only question; When?
Not even she knows.
But then something happens that could change everything; all her plans, her feelings, something that could change her herself.
All in the form of one boy.
Tobias and Talia are complete opposites, yet thrown together in an arranged marriage. Can they navigate married life in the wake of a terrible tragedy?
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After being pressured into an arranged marriage to merge their families' companies, Talia and Tobias are stuck living together as husband and wife. Although they are both unhappy, neither tries to make the best of it. Tobias is too busy, and Talia is too distraught by the tragic death of her former fianceé, Jason. But as time goes by and they spend more time together, an undeniable attraction develops between the two. Despite this, Tobias can't seem to see past his jealousy of Jason and accept Talia - and Talia, plagued by guilt, is unwilling to let Jason go. Are the two heading for better - or are they headed for far worse?
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