Percy has never had the luxury of an easy life.
Fresh from her second stint at rehab, 17-year-old Persephone Anders is determined to make life back in Autumn Falls work. Unfortunately for her, a steady job, dance practice, and schoolwork aren't exactly the fast lane she is used to. With threats to slip back into her life of partying, drugs, and no real purpose, Percy ends up meeting someone she never thought she would see again; except this time, he is there to stay, and to make her life as thrilling and difficult as possible.
Kai has never had the luxury of a happy life.
Still reeling from the loss of his father and the sudden relocation to his semi-absentee mother's home of Autumn Falls, Malachi Bruinsa has no real reason to care about his future. He spends his days making busywork and stupid fun drown the sorrow that threatens to overtake him. Until he meets Percy, a girl he never imagined seeing again. Summer nights filled with harmless fun bloomed something in Kai that he hasn't felt in years, but also endangered his ultimate escape to a world without his lousy, broken family.
Through late-night adventures and early-morning whirlwinds, Kai and Percy meet entirely new versions of themselves and raise hell while doing it. But everything threatens to crumble under the harsh realities of life: young love doesn't cover up scars and it certainly doesn't keep new ones from being made. Especially when mistakes resurface, challenges arise, and death blooms in the air.
Grief-stricken over the death of the boss who was like a father to her, Olivia Bailey is left to deal with the aftermath--the arrival of his dashing but estranged son, Pierce Alexander. But she can't stand him and he doesn't trust her. Will working for the new CEO remain to be an impossible task?
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Olivia Bailey might be plain and boring, but she's content with her current lifestyle, working for the kind but lonely old man who owns Alexander Corporation. But his untimely death flips her simple life upside down. Now, she must deal with his estranged son, the heir to his business empire, together with the growing feelings building up between them. Will Olive manage to bear the pressure and issues cropping up along the way--or is this too much to ask?
Disclaimer: This story won The Wattys 2014 People's Choice Award.
Cover Design by Ashley Marie Bandy