All Mya ever wanted was to
date golden boy Prescott Monroe, captain of the football team, loved by the
entire school. But when she gets her wish, it isn’t long before she realizes
that things are not all as they seem. The guy everyone in her school loves is
hiding something, and there’s a darkness in his eyes that only she seems to
see. Can she get away before it’s too late?
Ryder James has earned his
label as Central High’s bad boy, and he relishes the title. It gives him a
different girl at the snap of his fingers, and more parties than he could ever
hope to attend. But the one thing he’s always wanted and knows he can never
have—the untouchable Mya Henderson.
Until one fateful morning
Mya’s world changes forever, leaving her completely shattered, and Ryder
suddenly isn’t the bad boy everyone’s warned her away from. Instead, he’s her
knight in shining armor.
14+ due to adult situations and
sexuality
EXCERPT:
I hurried down the hallways
toward my next class and slid into my seat just as the bell started to ring.
Pulling my purse off my shoulder, I dug inside and grabbed a pencil, slamming
it down on the desk a little too hard. It bounced then rolled onto the floor
with a clatter that seemed far louder than it was. As I reached for it, a pair
of boots came into my line of sight. Following them up, over a pair of jeans
that molded a little too well to the muscular thighs underneath, up past the
t-shirt that clung lovingly to a set of abs that had my cheeks flaming, and
finally my gaze settled on Ryder’s.
“You’re not in this class,”
I blurted.
He smirked at me, much like
he had earlier, before bending and picking up my pencil. He dropped it on my
desk before claiming the seat next to mine. Flustered and more than a little
embarrassed, I tried to force my eyes to look forward and not at the guy who
made the room feel two sizes smaller. It was hardly fair the most popular guy
in school didn’t get so much as a butterfly flicker from me, but one look at
Ryder and I became a hot mess. What was it about him that pulled at me? I’d
thought I was better than the other girls begging for his attention, but maybe
I wasn’t. There was definitely something irresistible about him, but resist I
would.
“Sorry to disappoint you,
princess. My schedule was changed.”
I glanced his way again, to
find him assessing me from head to toe. I smoothed out my hair, knowing the
untamable mess was probably frizzy. What did a guy like Ryder see when he
looked at a girl like me? My sundress was modest, my ballet flats chosen for
comfort. I’d seen the girls he dated, and I used the term dated very loosely.
Ryder didn’t date. He hooked up and then moved on to his next conquest. And
still the girls fell at his feet, even knowing they would be used and tossed
aside.
His gaze lingered on the
front of my dress and I fought the urge to pull the neckline up higher.
“Did I spill my lunch or
something?” I asked, drawing those blue eyes back to mine.
“When did you start
dressing this way?”
My brow furrowed. “In
clothes? Since birth.”
“No.” He flicked a finger
up and down. “In sexy things like this dress. Since grade school, you’ve
dressed in nerdy t-shirts and jeans. Was the jock so tempting you had to change
who you are to get a piece of him?”
I was fairly certain if I
were a cartoon character this would be the point my face would turn red and
steam would pour out of my ears. I glared down my nose at him and opened my
mouth to give him a scathing retort, but the teacher banged on her desk to get
everyone’s attention. I glared another moment before facing the front, but not
before I caught another amused look cast my way by Ryder. Was he trying to piss
me off? And to what purpose?
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR:
Charity West is
a young adult/new adult romance author who has always had her head in the
clouds. She had her first crush when she was four, and it lasted for six years.
Then she quickly fell head over heels for another boy, until she had to move
away and leave him behind. Jumping from one boy to another, she finally found a
keeper when she was twenty, and she’s been married to him ever since.
By the time
Charity was twelve, she was sneaking her mother’s Harlequin romances and
reading them in secret when she was supposed to be asleep. Teased throughout
middle school and high school for the bodice ripper covers on the books she
openly read in class, she knew that one day she wanted to write her own
happily-ever-afters.
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