"I jogged faster. He started to jog himself. Okay, now I was getting freaked out. I kept turning back, perspiration running down me. Every time I spun back, he was getting closer and closer and that's when I ran for it. Panic rushed through my veins, my pulse beating hard. Glancing back I saw him started to run.
My throat was desperate, my stomach in real pain but I refused to stop. I looked back again and he was gone. I turned back around and-"
Mariana known as Mari (pronounced as Maw-Ree) is your typical teenage girl. She goes to a school, she's well known for: her sarcasm, stubbornness, down-to-earth personality, gullibleness, her hatred towards anybody-who-gets-on-her-nerves, her kindness, her green glass-like eyes and beauty. She has friends and enemies. She lives for memories and tries her best not to live for dramas. So what? She's a normal seventeen year old girl. -That's what she thinks.
Raised and trained to be the best she can be, she soon becomes a target. But for who?
Attempted poison. Attempted kidnapping. Attempted murder. She's lived through all of that. But why?
Fighting over two boys, fighting against her assassin, fighting for survival, she stumbles -more like successful kidnapping- upon the truth. Will she accept or decline? Will she live or will she die?
Betrayal, secrets and lies replaces luxuries, attention and having a normal life.
What will she do when she finally learns the truth?
Because it's complicated.
As Dallas and Drayton navigate life in the spotlight, Spencer is navigating intense feelings for Nathan - her best friend's brother.
*****
Dallas and Drayton are planning their wedding, talking babies and learning how to navigate life in LA now that Drayton is a hotshot football player in the big leagues. Meanwhile, Spencer and Nathan are back at home in Colorado, coming to terms with their feelings for one another and learning how to co-parent with Grayson, the father of Spencer's daughter. Will the realities of adult life strengthen them - or will their relationships break?
[Sequel to The QB Bad Boy and Me]
[[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]