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Simone Elkeles
After getting kicked out of boarding school, bad boy Derek Fitzpatrick has no choice but to live with his ditzy stepmother while his military dad is deployed. Things quickly go from bad to worse when he finds out she plans to move them back to her childhood home in Illinois. Derek's counting the days before he can be on his own, and the last thing he needs is to get involved with someone else's family drama. Ashtyn Parker knows one thing for certain--people you care about leave without a backward glance. A football scholarship would finally give her the chance to leave. So she pours everything into winning a state championship, until her boyfriend and star quarterback betrays them all by joining their rival team. Ashtyn needs a new game plan, but it requires trusting Derek - someone she barely knows, someone born to break the rules. Is she willing to put her heart on the line to try and win it all?
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Author
Simone Elkeles
Pages
344
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Published Date
2013-01-01
ISBN
0802737382 9780802737380
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"Fantastic. Freaking read it this author is the best is all i can say. You'll devour this book in a couple hours."
S W
Sydney Winstanley
"I enjoyed reading this book. I liked the different perspectives in the book. Quick easy read! "
Cat
"What a surprise. A <i>girl afraid of getting hurt</i>, and <i>a guy who is considered troubled, but is simply hiding his loving, softie side under a hardened shell</i>. Who saw that coming? Of course, they're also both drop-dead gorgeous with perfect bodies. And, it's not like Ashtyn could possibly resist falling madly in love with Derek. Who could, especially considering how they're always fighting and he doesn't want a commitment, until the last 10 pages or so when he realizes he's magically equally in love with her? Simone Elkeles, it was amazingly fun to read the first time. At this point, however, I could write your next book for you. <br/>Despite all of that, I still loved it. Not as much as possible, but enough to earn three stars with what probably should be a one-star book, due to lack of originality. Its beautiful sarcasm, the fact that the female was the captain of a football team (go gender equality! Even though I would love it even more if for once Simone went with a girl who knew martial arts who could defend herself, or something of that matter.) and of course the fact Elkeles somehow managed to coerce me into staying up quite later than I wanted to in order to finish the novel. Not quite sure how that happened, but kudos."
Jana B.
"I absolutely FREAKING LOVE this book!!"
Bethany Shively