"To die is different than what anyone supposed, and luckier."
-Walt Whitman
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Clementine has incredibly shitty luck. She can't stop stubbing her toes, she has never had a good hair day, and when she took a swig out of the milk jug this morning, it was sour.
Something horrible happened to Clementine her senior year. It was an older guy, who she trusted. It happened in the front seat of his beat up nissan, when she was shit faced, and after she was never the same.
He left her on the side of the road, like a crumpled paper doll. A cabdriver picked her up at two in the morning, and drove her to the hospital. When she got there, the doctor (bless his insensitive heart) told her that she was actually very lucky to be at the hospital that night. If she hadn't, she was told, they might never have discovered the rare, aggressive eye infection which was eroding her vision.
Something really bad happened to Clementine, her senior year. And then she went blind.
Perhaps the last thing that Clementine needs, only a year after the incident, is a convicted felon to hide in her grandma's garage. But Clementine has really shitty luck, and Liam really needs a place to stay.
As Dallas and Drayton navigate life in the spotlight, Spencer is navigating intense feelings for Nathan - her best friend's brother.
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Dallas and Drayton are planning their wedding, talking babies and learning how to navigate life in LA now that Drayton is a hotshot football player in the big leagues. Meanwhile, Spencer and Nathan are back at home in Colorado, coming to terms with their feelings for one another and learning how to co-parent with Grayson, the father of Spencer's daughter. Will the realities of adult life strengthen them - or will their relationships break?
[Sequel to The QB Bad Boy and Me]
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