Little, Simple Things
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Alessandra's plan is simple: graduate as the valedictorian, attend the university of her dreams, and become a journalist. Throw in nosy family, annoying best friends, and classmates hellbent on making their last year of high school the biggest ongoing party of the century, and you have something a little less simple -- but manageable.
She thinks she has everything in the bag until the past comes waltzing back into her life in the form of one Skandar Mendoza. Something simple quickly becomes complicated when the line between truths and lies start to blur. With him in the mix, Alessandra's life becomes one walking contradiction after the other. It takes a ridiculous amount of willpower to hold it together in one cohesive puzzle --
If the pieces still fit, that is.
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