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  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 through a chance encounter, 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.

  *Voted one of the top five romances of 2013 by A is for Alpha, B is for Book

  Excerpt:

  It took fifty-three seconds for him to appear beside me in the bar.

  I sensed the anger pouring off him before he even sat down. “Not drinking today?” he said in a low voice.

  “No fake ID,” I said, putting my hand on his inner thigh and caressing the taut muscles there. “You seem tense. Is there anything I can do to help you relax?” I asked, my lips curving up.

  He stared at my stroking hand and swallowed, but didn’t move away. “I just came over to see how you’re doing,” he said with a stone-like face, not giving anything away.

  But I could tell I was making him uncomfortable.

  Because I was too young for him.

  I scowled and pulled my hand back. “Why? Because you feel bad for the poor little rich girl with all the problems?”

  He looked away from me.

  Yep.

  And right then, I wanted his attention. I wanted him to see me. I was more than just a privileged girl from Highland Park who seemed to have it all.

  I said, “Let’s go in the bathroom and fuck.”

  He exhaled heavily and stood up from the stool.

  “No?” I said, feeling all at once ashamed for the words coming out of my mouth, yet completely powerless to stop them. “You know, one of my favorite books has this sizzling, hot chapter where the main characters go to lunch together. And even though it’s a first date, they end up in a bathroom stall, because they can’t wait to get at each other. He just bends her over and gives it to her, hard and fast. I’d like to reenact that scene.” I took a hasty sip of water and got my nerve up. “All we’d have to do is pick the biggest stall, and then you flip my dress up and take me from behind. Or I could get on my knees for you? I’d suck you, if you like.”

  He paled and pinched the bridge of his nose. “You don’t want me, Nora. I’ll fuck you, and when I’m done, I’ll leave you.”

  At the thought of him leaving me, all the air was taken out of me and a pain squeezed my heart so hard I thought I might cry out. Why couldn’t he see that my feelings were authentic? That maybe, just maybe, he and I would be different.

  “Well if not you, then someone else will do,” I said, forcing a shrug, looking around the bar. “Who should I choose? There’s the young guy over there in the corner with the power suit and buzz cut who’s been trying to catch my eye since I sat down . . . although I think I see a wedding band on his hand. He’s out, I suppose. Even I have standards. And, there’s the fortyish-looking guy sitting across from me. He’s been staring at my breasts.” I smiled and waved at the gentleman in question, and he waved back, a hopeful look on his face. “Oh yeah, definitely interested.”

  I opened my purse and pulled out a pen and wrote my name and number on a bar napkin. I pushed it over to Leo. “Do me a favor? Take this over to him and tell him what a great girl I am. How good I am. How you know I’m not really bad.” I stared at the bulge in his pants. “Maybe tell him how hard you get when I talk about fucking.”

  Very Bad Things is a complete standalone novel without a cliffhanger.

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