"if you're honest,
tell the mirror what you know she's heard before.
i don't wanna be you anymore."
•••
To everyone at Wellview High, Cleo Chang is one of the most popular, most beautiful, most envied girls in Junior year.
To her friends, she's Cleo. The friend who's funny and supportive and lets them copy off test papers.
To her boyfriend, Daniel, she's beautiful and subservient and a good kisser.
To her parents, she's rebellious and selfish.
To herself ... well.
She doesn't know what she is. All she knows is that she hates the person she sees in the mirror every morning. Absolutely hates her. She's stuck in a prison, a loop, chained to a train on a railroad that leads nowhere.
She's empty. She's nothing. She's dust.
•••
Halfway through the year, a boy moves to town. To Cleo's neighbourhood. Into the empty house across the street. His name is Mick Calloway.
She doesn't know it now, but he he's the angel that's fallen from heaven to guide her back home. He's her light in the dark, misleading tunnel of life.
He is her love.
He will not only love her, but let her love herself.
•••
PG13 with censored language.
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Mira finds herself stuck in the city of love with Jake, the playboy athlete she can't stand. What she doesn't expect is for major sparks to fly on their 24-hour adventure. But can this newly-found love last beyond the magic of Paris?
*****
24 Hours in Paris is now published as a Paperback & E-book by W by Wattpad Books
As a Wattpad reader, you can now access both the Original Edition and the W by Wattpad Books Published Edition here upon purchase (PS: a review on Amazon (and also Goodreads) would be very much appreciated, to help get this POC rom com in front of more readers! All the review page links are on my Wattpad profile page :-) )
In the new Published Edition of the book, the characters of Mira and Jake will be older and wiser co-workers in the corporate world, who miss their flight and get stuck spending an extra 24 hours in Paris. They'll start off annoyed with each other, but you know how the story goes...
"Adorably sweet and a brilliant read! It made me feel like I was roaming the streets of Paris without having to leave my couch." - Grace @HQ
*****
On the last day of their class's college trip to Paris, Mira and Jake get tangled up in a debacle that causes them to miss their flight home to New York. Which means they're stuck in Paris until the next available flight that's 24 hours away! Mira is witty and a lover of art history and good cheese. Jake, on the other hand, is your All-American frat boy with a killer smile. Translation: they can't stand each other.
As they visit places they could never have imagined, Mira and Jake go from mortal enemies to star-crossed lovers with sizzling chemistry. But can their spark last without Paris' cheese and charm to keep it going?
[[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]]
Cover designed by Ray Gardener