1986: Why Can't This Be Love (Love in the 80s #7) (8 page)

W
atch out
, girls. Here she comes.

There’s always
that
girl. She’s popular, beautiful, and has everything together. The one with the perfectly teased hair, arms full of colorful (but coordinated) bangles, and expertly painted bright-pink lips.

A teacher’s pet. Daddy’s girl.

Everyone loves her.

Because everyone is afraid to challenge her.

Kelly Ross is that girl. She uses her powers of popularity for good… her
own
good. She doesn’t care who she hurts.

She always gets what she wants.

Including your man.

When she walks down the hallway in her hot-pink heels and ruffled denim miniskirt, all the boys’ heads turn. And all the girls start whispering.

Man-eater.

There hasn’t been a single guy Kelly hasn’t been able to chew up and spit out.

Until now.

Kelly has finally met her match. He’s been there all along, and he’s the exact opposite of everything you’d expect.

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I
sadora Lancaster is in hell
.

She passed on a European vacation with her parents, choosing instead to spend an amazing summer with her boyfriend. But that plan changed when she walked in on him and another woman. Now Izzy’s stuck in a town she’s avoided since high school, and has to face uncomfortable truths about her past—including the best friend that abandoned her during their senior year. The boy that broke her heart.

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L
ove the music
—never the man.

At twenty years-old, Sabrina Caroline was America’s sweetheart pop star, until she took a year off to treat her social phobia that her cut-throat-manager/mom paid top dollar to keep quiet. Now as part of her comeback, she’s forced into collaboration with one of the hottest rock bands topping the charts—Birds of Prey—whose lead guitarist happens to be her biggest mistake…and her biggest regret.

Hawke Owens never imagined Birds of Prey would surpass the basement of the Duncan High School for Performing Arts, let alone score them a European tour. But success has its price, and for him, it’s being forced to work with the only girl who shattered his heart—Sabrina Caroline. She’s everything that he remembers and more, every memory and fantasy come to life. At first touch, their connection is electric, but it’s also as strong as her determination to follow her number one rule—she doesn’t date rock stars…even though she’s become one.

Loving her again is as natural as holding his guitar, but she’s destroyed him once, and this time the stakes are higher, more public, and the consequences life-altering. Against the backdrop of the birth of MTV, they’ll have to choose between the demands of their label, and the demands of the heart.

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J
ames Stryker
, the bad boy of our neighborhood, had a voice that could put babies to sleep. His name still punches me in the gut, along with the lie he tried to hide.

James told me he would protect me forever and I entrusted him with all my deepest, darkest secrets. I was positive that I knew all of his, too…until the end of summer 1985.

What I found out ruined me. I could only imagine the gossip.

So what did I do? I bailed.

Without another word to James, I left home and planned to never, ever return. I vowed that I’d never have to face James Stryker again.

Fast-forward seven years.  

One simple phone call from home changes everything and threatens to silence all the promises I’ve whispered to myself.

Most of all, I can’t shake the gnarly feeling that the most careless whispers are the ones I haven’t even heard yet.

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L
yssa Taylor
totally thinks she has her future planned out. Being eighteen with strict parents, a relationship is the last thing on her mind.

B
ut when she
and her best friends arrive at the cabin for their last summer vacation before they head off to separate futures, the handsome Tyler Preston—her secret childhood crush and best friend’s (off-limits) older brother—is also there.

N
ow
, what was expected to be a simple, fun vacation, turns out to be one spark-igniting, complicated mess.