She's a good little girl- won every award, every teacher loves her, every grownup loves her, every parent says: " Why can't you be more like Samantha Carter? You get B's. She's met the president, and has already been accepted into three Ivy League colleges, but won't skip that many grades because she doesn't want to miss her family!"
What a big fat lie. Her mom only cares about her because she gets money for every award she gets, and her popular little brother, Luke, has cancer. Her mom just thinks it's too much money to drive to the colleges.
She's a genius, but she gets bullied all the time. She has no friends that aren't at least ten years older than her.
So one day, when bullying gets so bad that she falls down a hill and loses her memory, does she actually want to be the person she was? Or is there some other way to shatter the glass and be herself and live for once, instead of reading textbooks and memorizing codes?
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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