After two years of living in sunny California, Victoria Hennington, is back in her country bumpkin town with her parents to stay with her aunt. Being tortured and picked on by her classmates practically all her life because of her weight, frizzy hair, and un-cool status, challenges her to become PERFECT. Since moving back now, she must face her old classmates as the "new girl." Not telling anyone about her past as the fat girl, she must change her name and her attitude. With this in mind, she has decided that she is to set revenge on the people that hurt her the worst, even if that means getting back at the cutie Jace, the most popular boy in school.
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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