My name's Flo. I'm 27, single, and I have a pet hamster. So yeah, my life basically sucks. I moved to New York a little while ago from England (hey, if you can "make it here, you can make it anywhere", right?) clutching my faux-leather briefcase, wide-eyed and full of hopeful naiveties and embarrassing dreams about finally becoming a success and proving my damned parents wrong for once, hoping to become a journalist. Well, so far I've managed to almost get fired (twice), turn in every article late, and set the coffee machine on fire in the typical American office where I work. I started keeping a journal in the hopes that I'd get it published one day (like Bridget Jones. Ooh, or Anne Frank!), and within these rusty pages contains a story that will BLOW. YOUR. MIND. Flo is 27, single and has a pet... Oh, wait, we've been through that already. Um. Flo is a slightly quirky, off-the-wall redhead (sorry, strawberry-blonde), trying to make her way in life. Follow her as she flirts with impossibly good-looking guys, only to find out they're gay; plays 'Wingwoman' to her best friend Duncan; and sit miserably in the corner of trendy bars, nursing a vodka, looking on enviously as her sexy, blonde-bombshell other best friend, Ashley, pulls handsome men.
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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