Riley has remembered helping her mom run the family business, Paws Up, since she could remember. She loves helping run Paws Up, a dog rescue and sanctuary. She enjoys helping dogs and sending them to new and loving homes. Riley, being 16, had spent her whole entire life devoting it to dogs. Don't even bring up any outside love lives, because let's face it, she's definitely had none!
One day Riley is informed that her mom has decided to have her best friends son live with them temporarily because of his fathers recent illness and the families financial struggles. Lucas, is also 16 and certainly has no interest in helping dogs. Riley and Lucas' strong personalities quickly begin to clash.
What Riley and Lucas certainly didn't expect, and hate to admit is that they slowly began developing stronger feelings for each other. Read Unleashed to experience their interesting romance blossom and to join them on their journeys of life and love.
Riley loves her brother more than anything in the world. They have always been there for each other since they were kids. If playing pranks and making fun of each other counts as being there for each other. Now that Riley is just starting high school... things haven't really gone as planned. While her brother was driving them to school, they crashed and she's been in a coma ever since. When she wakes up, things have definitely changed. Over the two years she been under, she has changed herself. Her brother has become an over protective wreck that regrets all the things he's done to his sister, and his best friend Tanner is starting to take an interest in Riley. But not in the way that pleases her older brother: Wilson. Now it's up to Riley to choose between what her brother wants and what she wants herself, while trying to get back to a normal lifestyle with her friends and family....
Riley will do whatever it takes to have The Better Life.