First published 2013
Abby Abernathy arrives at Eastern University determined to leave her dark past behind. She has transformed herself into the perfect good girl who never drinks, never swears, and owns plenty of cardigans. Her best friend accompanies her to college, where Abby plans to start fresh. But Eastern University presents an immediate obstacle in the form of its notorious Walking One-Night Stand, a student whose reputation precedes him. This encounter threatens to derail Abby's carefully constructed new identity. She believed she had put enough distance between herself and the darkness she fled, but college life proves more complicated than expected. The tension builds as Abby must choose between the safe path she planned and the dangerous attraction that could pull her back into the world she worked so hard to escape.
Genres: romance, contemporary-romance, new-adult, new-adult-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, second-chance
Setting: Eastern University
Period: contemporary
448 pages · Paperback · Suma
Content warnings: abuse