One moment...
That’s all it takes to change your life.
One moment of recklessness will change their worlds
Smart. Responsible. That's seventeen-year-old Breanna's role in her large family, and heaven forbid she put a toe out of line. Until one night of shockingly un-Breanna-like behavior puts her into a vicious cyberbully's line of fire—and brings fellow senior Thomas "Razor" Turner into her life.
Razor lives for the Reign of Terror motorcycle club, and good girls like Breanna just don't belong. But when he learns she's being blackmailed over a compromising picture of the two of them—a picture that turns one unexpected and beautiful moment into ugliness—he knows it's time to step outside the rules.
And so they make a pact: he'll help her track down her blackmailer, and in return she'll help him seek answers to the mystery that's haunted him—one that not even his club brothers have been willing to discuss. But the more time they spend together, the more their feelings grow. And suddenly they're both walking the edge of discovering who they really are, what they want, and where they're going from here.
“This is going to be the best night of our lives,” announces Reagan.
Addison sits at the desk in front of me and Reagan’s to the left of Addison.
I check the
clock on the wall over our English teacher’s desk. In exactly two minutes, the
bell will ring and the first day of my senior year will begin. It’s not only
the first day of school, but also the first Friday of the school year.
Three years ago,
Addison, Reagan, and I promised we’d do something crazy on the first Friday of
our senior year. After notifying High Grove that I declined their scholarship,
crazy is exactly what I need. “Are you sure your parents aren’t going to check
on us?”
“Trust me,
everything will be golden.” Reagan uses the camera on her phone to fix stray
pieces of her dirty blond hair. She curled it this morning and much to her
displeasure the curls are falling out. “Has Cass started following you yet? I
told her you created a Bragger account.”
I sigh and
Addison scowls. She’s less than thrilled with my lack of excitement. I
currently have twenty-five followers. It’s better than none, but not nearly
reaching Addison and Reagan’s totals. Not sure how this whole social media thing
is supposed to be fun. It’s like being back in elementary school and waiting to
be picked for kickball.
“To gain
followers you must post something.” Addison has this teacher to pupil reprimand
going on, and it’s scary on her. “Don’t make me start posting for you, brat.
You’re the one that wanted to join the world. Reagan and I are trying to catch
you up on how to participate in the land of the living.”
“Because
everyone will love reading how I was up doing dishes until midnight,” I say.
“Tell them you
were doing it naked and half the boys in school will follow you.” Reagan tosses
me a sly smirk and I laugh. She’s always saying things that push the envelope.
“Tell them you’ll post the picture if you reach five hundred followers. Watch
your stats climb, girl.”
“That would be
interesting.” A new voice joins the conversation.
I see the jeans
first. Actually I see a rip in the jeans, and that rip is an inch above the
knee, and I’m staring at a very muscular male thigh. I enter this weird zone,
because there’s this sinking feeling of where this is heading, and ominous
sirens are sounding off.
It’s like being
stuck in slow motion as I glance up. My heart stops. Starts. And when it starts
again, I find I can’t breathe. Golden hair that’s a little long on top. Light
blue eyes drinking me in. All I see is a whole lot of gorgeous…and dangerous.
It’s Thomas
freaking Turner. He wears the same leather vest that he had on the other night,
and underneath it is a black T-shirt with the name of an old-school metal band.
My eyes automatically scan his patches and I wonder which one is the warning
that he carries a gun.
His fingers skim
my desk as he strides past. There are small cuts on his knuckles, and the skin
on his hands look rough—like him. For some reason, I find that attractive. It
reminds me of him hunched in front of his bike yesterday as he was repairing
his machine. The steady way he moved. The serious set of his face. The way the
muscles in his arms flexed as he worked.
“Hello, Breana.”
Thomas’s voice is deep, smooth and feels like a caress along my skin.
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About the Author
Katie McGarry was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan.
Katie is the author of full length YA novels, PUSHING THE LIMITS, DARE YOU TO, CRASH INTO YOU, TAKE ME ON, BREAKING THE RULES, and NOWHERE BUT HERE and the e-novellas, CROSSING THE LINE and RED AT NIGHT. Her debut YA novel, PUSHING THE LIMITS was a 2012 Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction, a RT Magazine's 2012 Reviewer's Choice Awards Nominee for Young Adult Contemporary Novel, a double Rita Finalist, and a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Teen Pick. DARE YOU TO was also a Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction and won RT Magazine’s Reviewer’s Choice Best Book Award for Young Adult Contemporary fiction in 2013.
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