Born into a life of
privilege and secrets, Nora Blakely has everything any nineteen-year-old girl
could desire. She’s an accomplished
pianist, a Texas beauty queen, and on her way to Princeton after high
school. She’s perfect…
Leaving behind her million
dollar mansion and Jimmy Choos, she becomes a girl hell-bent on pushing the
limits with alcohol, drugs, and meaningless sex.
Then she meets her
soulmate. But he doesn’t want her.
When it comes to girls,
twenty-five-year old Leo Tate has one rule:
never fall in love. His gym and
his brother are all he cares about…until he meets Nora. He resists the pull of their attraction, hung
up on their six year age difference.
As they struggle to stay
away from each other, secrets will be revealed, tempers will flare, and hearts
will be broken.
Welcome to Briarcrest
Academy…where sometimes, the best things in life are
Very Bad Things.
As
if he’d made a decision, he pulled me out into the quiet hallway. Once we were
alone, he said, “Now, about last night—” he stopped, appearing stuck on what to
say.
“Yeah?”
He
took two steps away from me, like he needed some space between us, like what he
was going to say was difficult. He ran his hand through his hair furiously,
pulling on the ends a little. “Nora, look, I think you’re a pretty girl, but
there won’t be anything between us.”
My
face flushed because I had acted inappropriately last night. Like a slut, really.
Yet I didn’t regret it. And then there was my bad list. I wanted him for my
meaningless sex. Still.
“Because
you think I’m too young.”
“Yes.”
He blew out a breath. “I’m sorry if I come across as a prick here, but I don’t
want you to get the wrong idea about me. I don’t do serious relationships ever, and you deserve something good,
not just a quick fuck.”
I
stared at his full lips, not holding back. “I like it when you say ‘fuck.’”
Ilsa Madden-Mills wrote her first work
at the age of twelve when she penned a little ditty about a handsome prince who
had no sense. Since then, she’s always written, whether it was for work or fun.
When she was young, she entered every short story and poetry contest around;
when she was in college, she wrote for the university paper; when she taught
English, she wrote a play along with a wonderful group of drama students.
Very
Bad Things is
her first full-length novel and part of a new series called Briarcrest Academy.
She graduated summa cum laude with a master’s in
English from an esteemed university in the South where she now resides. She
spends her days with two small kids, a neurotic cat, and her Viking husband.
When she’s not typing away at a story, you can find her drinking too much Diet
Coke, jamming out to Pink, or checking on her carefully maintained chocolate
stash.
She loves to hear from fans and fellow avid readers.
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