TO MAKE YOU STAY

❛❛ 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜, 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢. ❞ sixteen-year-old addison greene knows how the story goes: she's lived out a love story before, and unlike the ones she's read in books, it didn't have a happy ending-and it's not the type of narrative she's willing to reread. but when she runs into the previously-thought-illiterate charles beck in a second-hand bookstore on main street, the writing on the wall starts to change.

charles - christened 'beck' by both himself and the girls at school who have become fixated on him - is charming, aloof, and a breath of fresh air: and he's nothing like addison's ex, who was textbook perfect right up to the moment he broke her heart. as beck and addison start to get to know each other, and the idea of a relationship becomes more than words on a page (or a text message, for that matter) they both start to realise that maybe their perfect reality isn't in the books they're reading.

maybe, just maybe, it's right in front of them.