"Love is a game. It's a game filled with late nights crying in your bathtub, early mornings making pancakes and dancing, and trusting you can fall for someone because you think they'll catch you. At least, that's what I was told. I always thought that love would be different for me. That love would have changed. Now that I'm experiencing it, I can tell you for sure that love is a game. However, it's the rules that have changed," Nora sighed, smiling up at him.
Nora Jacobs wasn't like every other eighteen year old girl. Being a carefree senior was the last thing on her list of priorities. She was hellbent on getting to college and forgetting everything about her past. She might have been normal, if it weren't for her brother's recent death and her parent's loss of sanity. For now, Nora is just trying to get through her last year of high school and out of her house.
That is, until Finn Evans entered her life. Finn possessed three things: a cheeky personality, a persuasive argument, and a list of locations. All Nora had to do was agree to throw caution to the wind and travel the west coast with him and his friends. In return, he promised her a problem free summer without reminders of her past. Sounds easy enough, right?
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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