California Girl~Tim Drake

"Before I met you I didn't even want to live, and I do want to now, just not without you."

Lorallie Ellis's life is destroyed when her mom gets engaged to a well-off man, life-changing for a family of two that lives paycheck to paycheck. The only problem is that this man lives in Gotham, the crime hub across the country from her small cozy California town. She could not have imagined leaving her friends and her home, but she had never seen her mom this happy with a man, and when Joel offers to pay her hefty tuition to a rich private school in Gotham that can supply her with every tool to become successful herself, how can she fight it?
After half a school year fighting for her place amongst her rich and bratty classmates, she seems to finally find is. She heads the school newspaper and even has an internship at a news network. Plus an attraction to her academic rival Tim Drake who embodies the snotty kids she's begun avoiding, or does he? Everything begins to shape up as she makes friends, finds her place at school and work, and even has a cute boy to think about.
But Lora didn't expect the mental illness she swore she left behind long ago to come surging back when she finds out her biological father has passed away when her biological mother re-enters her life. Will Lora and her possibly blossoming relationship survive the storm headed for them?