Every summer and every Christmas, Callie Macpherson has grown up with, been best friends with, and fallen in and out of love with Jesse, the boy who lives on her father’s rural holiday camp. His carefree, relaxed lifestyle is the polar opposite to the prim and proper (and stuck-up) London life that she’s used to during the rest of the year. And his caring, non-confrontational demeanour is the perfect chalk to her fiery, talkative cheese. Ever since they were eight, they had completed each other.
But then Callie had to learn the hard way that keeping secrets will always end in disaster. And now, six months on, she can tell that Jesse needs her more than ever, but she needs to earn his trust back in order to help him. And, after all that happened last summer, Callie's not sure that Jesse's trust is something she'll ever manage to recapture.
We've all heard about 'the main character'. The type of person who lives through the most dramatic and improbable situations, and finds the kind of epic romance you only see in works of fiction. Which makes you think about how unrealistic love like that is. I used to think the same thing until I met him.
Until I met 'the bad boy' that, as it turns out, wasn't that bad at all, just simply...a boy. A boy with an easy smile, a charming personality and looks so enticing that I couldn't keep my eyes off of him if I tried. A boy whose shoulders were starting to slump with the weight of his past and his family. A boy who believed that the only way to survive was by putting a lock on his heart and chaining it down to a place so deep inside of him that no one could ever reach it again. A boy who, for reasons I'll never comprehend, placed the key inside my palm and didn't shy away when I tried to free his hidden heart from its restraints. A boy who made me the main character of my own story. A story I never want to forget, and which begged to be put on paper.
This is that story.
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Contains swearing and mature language.