Whistleblower ✓
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  • Reads 12,821,621
  • Votes 599,841
  • Parts 56
  • Time 9h 13m
  • Print adaptation
Ongoing, First published May 10, 2018
Whistleblower is now published as a Paperback, and E-book with W by Wattpad Books. 
As Wattpad reader you can read the original version and get details for Published book inside. 

*****

A journalism major gets tangled up with the beloved quarterback of her university's football team when she uncovers a scandal involving his coach.

*****

Laurel Cates is a people-watcher. She's determined to get through college without stepping on any toes or causing a scene, and so far, it's going pretty well. But when Laurel uncovers a scandal involving the head coach of Garland University's beloved football team, she knows she has to do the right thing.

Even if her classmates don't believe her.

Even if her boss tries to fire her from the side job she desperately needs.

Even if the heart-of-gold quarterback, Bodie St. James, seems hell-bent on hating her for writing the article that got Coach Vaughn put under criminal investigation (a feat which proves difficult when Laurel and Bodie wind up in the same group for a class project in BIO 108: Human Sexuality).

*****

(#9 NewAdult, #3 TeenFiction. The Fiction Awards nominee for Best Romance, Best Diverse, and Best Overall. Reader's Choice Award finalist.)

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