After making a rather impulse decision to move to Toowoomba, a large town outside of Queensland after being emancipated, Avery is determined to start fresh. A new house, a new school, new friends and new experiences that will mould her into the woman she wants so badly to be.
But there was a large bump in the road.
And that bump came in the form of Colton Slayer, the sweet boy that every girl wants to date, the boy that makes Avery's heart flutter like a butterfly caught in the web of her rib cage.
After catching the eye of Colton, he is set on getting her attention, the same way she has with him. But it will be very difficult, especially when Avery's past comes back to haunt her, determined to make her miserable, tearing open an old wound that will bleed out all of the hidden secrets and emotions that Avery has so desperately tried to bury.
Along the way she will make friends and enemies, be both happy and sad, creating memories that she will cherish and other she wish never happened. Avery will look towards her future while simultaneously trying to forget her past.
Read and find out the past and secrets that form the person she is now, and who she will become.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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