Told in alternating perspectives, best friends Paloma, Josie and George are spending their last night together before college doing the same things they have been doing for the last four years: getting ready at Josie's before meeting up with Josie's boyfriend and his friends to stay up all night hopping around different parties and houses in their neighborhood. Just another boring night. The thing is, it's the last one.
Each girl wants their own version of a happy ending. Paloma, the only queer girl in her small town, just wants to spend her last night in town with her best friends before leaving to start her real life in New York. George wants to finally tell Gus, her friend and crush, how she feels about him. And Josie wants to find the words to tell Oliver, her long-term boyfriend, that she actually doesn't want to break up anymore.
The girls make a pact to say and do everything they need to do before their time together ends, but over the course of the night, their plans get sidetracked by new, predatory guys, pretty girls, fights about the future, and realizations about how lucky they were to have each other, especially in the environment they grew up in - with its' rampant, casual toxic masculinity, rape culture and slut-shaming.
Even though the night throws new challenges at them and pulls them apart, they always find their way back together. And they are all left with a question they have been scared to ask: who will we be without each other?
"Why would you do that for me? We barely know each other?" I say barely above a whisper.
"Because I think you're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen." He with complete honesty lacing his voice.
His beautiful brown eyes bore into mine as if it were only the two of us left in the world.
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When 20 year old Luna and her best friend Lily move into a new apartment to go to college, Luna ends up befriending a boy who would change their lives forever.
Luna is starting over in a new city, hoping she can put her traumatic past behind her. Learning how to trust people and let them in isn't easy, but will a certain certified bad boy break down her walls?
Jax is a 25 year old who is currently preparing to take over the canadian mafia from his father. He's a very closed off and cold person. He doesn't like it when people touch him and try to break down his walls, but what happens when he see's a girl and can't help but to want to feel her touch.
Will these two be able to save each other? or will they build up their walls so high that neither of them will be able to break each others down.
Rivals and secrets are brought to the surface, people fall in and out of love, their loyalty gets tested and tensions rise.
Will this group of strangers turned friends be able to beat the odds, or should they give up before they even start.
this book contains
• mature language
• violence
• SA
• SH
• smut