WARNING: CRINGE-WORTHY
Jessie, a seventeen year old girl with an abusive past and a gold - digging mother, has no idea what life in the real world is like. Forced to move from her home when her mother gets remarried, she begins realizing what she really cares about, and unlike her mom, it's not money. It's love. Something she has never had.
Ryker, a boy with a horrifying past of drugs and crime, has no idea what he wants. But after everything he has been through, the bad boy becomes the most terrifying part of any high schooler's day when they are forced to be around him after he leaves juvy and comes back to high school.
When Jessie attacks Ryker at school as he's bullying a little boy, everything changes for the both of them, for better, but most likely, for worse.
"I'm Ryker, Ryker Knight."
"Is your name supposed to mean something to me?"
"You'll realize, Princess, that it will someday, one way or another."
Eighteen-year-old Rylee Evans just moved back to Charlottesville, VA, with her dad and sister after being gone for three years. She's not the same girl she was when she left, or so she thought.
Austin Hayes is the good-looking, arrogant, popular guy at school. And the one person that Rylee wants to avoid more than anything. It's no secret that he made her life miserable in middle school.
Austin needs to keep his grades up to stay on the football team, so he needs a tutor. Except there's only one tutor available...Rylee.
Austin and Rylee find themselves quickly falling for each other, except Austin's ex-girlfriend refuses to let him go that easily and starts causing problems for them. Rylee has the life she's always dreamed of: a loving boyfriend and a bigger circle of friends.
There's only one problem...Rylee's father. Will Rylee have the courage to keep what she's found with Austin or let her father tear them apart forever?
Warning... It talks about abuse that could be triggering for some readers.