"I'm not perfect." I say, my breath fanning the window of HIS bedroom. Alone, I let the thick comforter fall around me. A sigh esacpes me.
"You are to me." A whisper echos around the open room. I freeze, having not heard him come in, completely consumed in my thoughts. Fear does not wash over me, but instead, a feeling of calm.
"You're perfect in every way, Willow."
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Parker Elliot Kingston is said to be the playboy of New Castle High. The best at breaking and using girls' hearts, and the next CEO of Kingston's Diamond Company (KDC).
And this is exactly what he does, everyday, until everything changes.
When a smart, fierce and mysterious new girl in the big city shows up going to the same high school, he tries his best to get under her skin, but she only proves he's all bark and no bite. This only makes him want her more.
What kind of secrets is she hiding?
When a strange event holds her at the center, Parker only wants to unravel her past more. But everyone has secrets; will the new girl leave him winded? Or will the playboy finally meet his match?
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Warning: mature content, triggering content, and mature language.
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"When I tell you that he hates me, you'll probably assume it's because he's a jerk...but you'd be wrong. He's not a jerk. I am."
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Several years ago tragedy struck Emma's home, leaving her broken... like a cup with cracks spiraling and slithering around the edges. Slowly, bitterness crept in like tar, hardening between each fracture to resemble a deceitful wholeness.
She became a monster, and targeted her venom on the sweetest person she could find: Trinity Nixon. Too bad the boy Emma longed for was Trinity's brother.
Now, as Emma fights to win the heart of the boy who despises her, she's forced to hide her demons. She paints her fragile cup in pinks, yellows, and oranges - all the colors of the sun. She paints on a smile, and an unusual sense of humor, so that the world will view her as bright and cheerful, when in reality she's breaking.
But she's completely unprepared for the acidic truth that melts away the tar, demolishing her shell, and awakening the Emma White buried deep inside.
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Book 1 in The Dismantled Pride series
*Story was previously titled "Faking It"