Pretty
Reckless, an all-new standalone high school, bully romance from USA
Today bestselling author L.J. Shen, is
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title: Pretty Reckless
series: All Saints High
author: L.J. Shen
release date: April 29, 2019
kindle edition
We
were supposed to be best friends
But
turned out to be worst enemies…
Penn
They
say revenge is a dish best served cold.
I’d
had four years to stew on what Daria Followhill did to me, and now my
heart is completely iced.
I
took her first kiss.
She
took the only thing I loved.
I
was poor.
She
was rich.
The
good thing about circumstances? They can change. Fast.
Now,
I’m her parents’ latest shiny project.
Her
housemate. Her tormentor. The captain of the rival football team she
hates so much.
Yeah,
baby girl, say it—I’m your foster brother.
There’s
a price to pay for ruining the only good thing in my life, and she’s
about to shell out some serious tears.
Daria
Followhill thinks she is THE queen. I’m about to prove to her that
she’s nothing but a spoiled princess.
Daria
Everyone
loves a good-old, unapologetic punk.
But
being a bitch? Oh, you get slammed for every snarky comment, cynical
eye roll, and foot you put in your adversaries’ way.
The
thing about stiletto heels is that they make a hell of a dent when
you walk all over the people who try to hurt you.
In
Penn Scully’s case, I pierced his heart until he bled out, then
left it in a trash can on a bright summer day.
Four
years ago, he asked me to save all of my firsts for him.
Now
he lives across the hall, and there’s nothing I want more than to
be his last everything.
His
parting words when he gave me his heart were that nothing in this
world is free.
Now?
Now he is making me pay.
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Excerpt:
“I don’t want you transferring into my school,” I
hiss out. Melody would gladly file a transfer request, and Principal
Prichard would salivate over the chance to snatch him up for our
football team.
“That won’t be a problem. You guys suck so much ass,
you have shit-breath.”
“Still smells better than poverty. You’re poor,
right? Your sister was just bullshitting about being rich.”
When someone hits me with a stick, I run over them with
a tank. I’m so mean to him I want to throw up. I hate this part of
being me. The striking harder at all costs part.
“Just to make things clear.” I put the brush down,
batting my lashes. “You’re not my step-sibling, foster brother,
or a part of the family. You’re a stray dog. Last of the litter,
most unlikely to be adopted, and a charity case.”
Penn takes a step toward me, and my heart is fighting
its way out of my ribcage. The closer he gets, the more I realize
that my heart might succeed. Penn’s eyes remind me of a snake’s.
Mesmerizing, but inhuman altogether. They weren’t like that before.
His scent messes with my head. I want to reach out and
caress his face. Kiss his wounds better. Beg for forgiveness. Curse
him. Push him away. Cry on his shoulder for what we’ve done. For
how it ended. For what we became afterwards, because I’m full of
crap and he is totally empty.
We ruined ourselves the day of our first kiss.
Penn looks down at me. Time stops. It feels like the
world is losing gravity, falling into a bottomless depth in space
when he clasps my chin with his thumb and finger, lifting my head up.
I can’t breathe. I’m not sure I want to, either. My towel drops
to the floor with a thud, even though I secured it over my chest. I
realize that he tugged at it intentionally. I’m naked. My body, my
soul, my heart. All my walls are down. Somewhere in my head, a red
alarm blasts and my inhibitions are getting armed, ready to fight
back. I’m trying to decode his expression. He is amused, irritated,
and…playful? The mixture of emotions doesn’t make any sense.
“Mess with me, Followhill, and I will ruin you.”
“Not if I ruin you first.”
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About
LJ Shen:
L.J. Shen is an International #1 best-selling author of
Contemporary Romance and New Adult novels. She lives in Northern
California with her husband, young son and chubby cat.
Before she’d settled down, L.J. (who thinks referring
to herself in the third person is really silly, by the way) traveled
the world, and collected friends from all across the globe. Friends
who’d be happy to report that she is a rubbish companion, always
forgets people's’ birthdays and never sends Christmas cards.
She enjoys the simple things in life, like spending time
with her family and friends, reading, HBO, Netflix and
internet-stalking Stephen James. She reads between three to five
books a week and firmly believes Crocs shoes and mullets should be
outlawed.
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