"In the end, I believe letting her go was the ultimate act of love."
Skylar Jones has never been a typical teenager. With patterns on her skin and scars in her heart, Skylar didn't open her heart up to anyone. Not even Liv, her best friend, knew her like she should. Her past tainted her present, and her present is blocking her future. Which is why Skylar has tried to commit suicide three times, it's why she loves the pocketknife she swiped from a shop, it's why she screams at night.
Enter Josh Cuthbert, a boy who has never really suffered heart break. When he and his band, Union J, perform a gig in the tiny town of Coata, Skylar and Josh's lives are changed forever as Josh pursues the mysterious yet beautiful Skylar. At first it's curiosity, but as he bares his soul to her, he can't help falling for her.
But which one will fall? Will Josh be able to catch Skylar? Letting her go may kill her... but it may just save her too.
Avery Johnson is a mediocre girl, living in a mediocre world. Or so she thinks.
She's an only child and her parents are still happily married. Her best friends are Simone and Alexio.
Alexio Ramones is the boy next door, but he's also the mysterious troublemaker at Harrison High. Their friendship has been kept between them since the day she was born. Sure, it was never an actual secret, they just never felt the need to tell anyone, and didn't talk in school since they belonged in different social groups.
Love is inevitable. Drama is also inevitable seeing as they're teenagers trying to figure out why the hell you need to learn algebra in school because you'll never need it after graduation either way.
Alexio is an ignorant and selfish bastard when it comes to everything except Avery. He's loved her for years and given her all the signs she should have needed to figure it out. Everything. Yet, the moment Adam joins their school, she starts dating him and Alexio is left feeling his heart shattering as the love of literally all his life finds happiness in someone else. In another man.
He's selfless until suddenly he's not and the world falls apart. For once it's not the girl that gets her heart broken by the bad boy, rather the other way around.