Against All Odds
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It's Ivy Scott's first year in college and things are not looking up for her. All of her "friends" dropped her, or went to a totally different college. She is starting a new period of her life alone. Well, not totally alone, her ex-boyfriend, Brian, attends Boston University also. But what happens when she goes to a coffee shop and meets Blake Roland, a charming, handsome, young man who also attends the university? Do things actually start looking up for her?
This is Blake Roland's second year at BU. He is happy to get away from his father who causes nothing but trouble and go back to his studies. He's all work and no play. Although this doesn't stop his friends Stuart, Brian, and his younger sister, Evelyn, attempts at dragging him out of his little study hole. One day while complaining about a cafe's lack of tea, a girl catches his eye. She's a brave, feisty, goofball that immediately captures his heart. As they build a stronger connection, the more worrisome Blake becomes. Something's holding him back. He's hiding something, but what? What is Blake Roland's secret?
It seems like everyone and everything is against them, will they get through it?
A whole lot of wonderful, humorous dialogue. Get ready!
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Love. A word that never made sense to Ivy Blanchard. Yes, she helps all of her friends with every relationship because she wants to see them happy, but she never really believed in the exaggerated picture of what "love" is. Trusting someone completely by opening up to them has never really amused her, and maybe that's because of what she went through as a little girl. When one day, she gets drunk and calls Kai Hale; one of her cousin's friends, to come and get her, it escalates into a fake relationship that neither of them expected. To convince her friend that she doesn't need help finding love, she decides to create a fake relationship with Kai. Although, the lie only begins to lead into other things that neither one of them realized or were prepared for. Kai is the exact opposite of Ivy. Smiling is second nature to him, and love is definitely something he's always believed in, he just doesn't have enough time for it with his complicated schedule. When Ivy and him begin getting close though, he realizes there definitely is something happening, but convincing Ivy that it's okay to let someone in is harder than he thought it would be. Will he actually get over the wall she's built since she could remember?
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