Popular party girl and high school senior Jessica Stone has a secret: she used to be a nerd - a big one; a goody two-shoes, grade-skipping, all-state spelling bee champ. But she lost the braces, put on some contacts, and applied all her academic genius to studying and imitating the social elite. Now she rules the school from the upper echelon of the high school realm. With her cool new friends and hottest-guy-in-school boyfriend, life's a beach - and that's where she's headed for Spring Break. That is, until her teacher breaks the bad news that she's failing Biology - and her only chance to make up the grade is to throw away the culminating trip of her hard-earned popularity and join the Conservation Club in Panama to save the Golden Frog.
Unable to let go of her faded college dreams, Jess finds herself in a foreign country with a new social crew, and one handsome face that stands out as a blast from the past, threatening to ruin her queen bee reputation. Travis Henley may have grown up, but he still likes to play childish games and as payment for retrieving Jess' lost ring from the bottom of a jungle pool, he wants three dates.
While Jess does battle with spiders, snakes, wildfires and smart mean girls, she desperately tries to hang on to the last vestiges of her popular existence like the Golden Frog from its webbed toe. But as she starts to care about something more than tanning and texting - a species on the verge of disappearing forever - she may realize the worth of her inner nerd, and the one frog in particular that could be her prince in disguise.
Check out the Playlist on Spotify: Kissing Frogs - A Tropical Fairytale and see if you can figure out which songs are from each Character's POV!
Status: Completed
Highest Rank - #1 Eco / #15 fairy-tales / #41 Humour / #98 Teen Fiction
Jordy feels like she has met the love of her life and everything is almost as if taken out of a fairytale, especially after Archer Finn confronts her about his own feelings for her.
The only obstacle for a beautiful relationship to bloom is the fact that Jordy has to leave for university in exactly seven days. Oh, and the fact that Archer is notorious for his player tendencies and cannot be trusted.
Can she wear her heart on her sleeve even if it's only for a week?
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"You've had sex in a car, haven't you?"
"I've had sex pretty much everywhere, baby."
"Ew, gross."
"Why do you think so? Actually doing it in the park isn't-"
"I wasn't talking about this, I just really hate pet names. I cringe so hard every time a couple overuses a certain word, thinking it's romantic. It's not! Why is this even a thing?"
"Wow, I never thought someone could be this cute while pulling a mom rant."
"Shut up." I scrunch up my nose as if I'm offended but my cheeks redden nonetheless.
"Okay, baby."
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PG13: curse words, sexual jokes and innuendos, descriptive kissing scenes
This book is planned to be short, sweet and easy to read! I dedicate it to all of my hopeless romantics out there :)