Maya Jackson leads two different lives, at school she is a good girl who always follows all the rules and ALWAYS has her head in a book; she doesn’t party or drink well so they all think. But once she leaves school she takes off her mask and becomes the bad girl. Drinking and collage parties aren’t even the start of it all, Maya’s heart has been thrown about and beaten down and she thinks she won’t be loved. But what will happen when she finally falls for Parker Jones, a “so called” player and high school heart throb, what will happen when people find out who she really is? But most of all, what will happen this summer, the summer of their senior year?
parker isnt your usually bad boy and Maya isnt your usually good girl....
"No I’m not most innocent of girls, my heart is bruised and battered, with strains and its plastered, they don’t know that, they don’t know me. love is only something i know in my dreams, sweep me off my toes and pick my heart up off thw ground, all its pieces and glue them together:
What I do after school or the weekends.they dont know, who I see, what I see, where I go. They think I thrive in being a nerd, books and all, with no love or sense for fun or “good living” but they have me all twisted. I’m unknown like a quite Ghost. We admire lust and drugs so I “don’t” bother with explaining myself. I hide behind glasses and books, in school I wear a mask and the boys I have met along the way have been my weakness, never strength. If only people knew I was a secret bad girl, I have a few dirty little secrets but who doesn’t…" - Maya Jackson
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Moving back to her old school, Alana befriends the arrogant Xavier. Underneath his scars are feelings for her, feelings neither of them can deny.
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Moving back to her hometown after six years away, Alana meets her childhood rival, Xavier, sitting on her mother's gravestone. He's still determined to tease and annoy her, and his arrogance and willingness to fight means she writes him off as a good-for-nothing. But underneath Xavier's tough-guy facade is a heart that has given too much, and been hurt too deeply. With each moment she spends with him, Alana starts to feel more connected to him. She gradually helps Xavier find himself, and he shows her how incredible she is as well. But after facing a tragic loss that shakes Xavier to the core, will Alana be able to hang on to him, or will he fall so deeply into himself that both of them are lost?
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