Author: maryelizabeth

Samantha Gray is going back to school.Four years after graduating Mission Woods High, she returns as the new young teacher. Miss Gray’s colleagues can’t stop staring, the students write naughty things about her on the bathroom walls, and their parents think her clothing it too provocative. She loves the attention, but Samantha has no idea what her career has in store for her.Troy Murillo is … her.Troy Murillo is failing English class. Twelve weeks before graduation, he needs extra credit and private tutoring if he wants to receive a diploma. But Troy isn’t interested in Shakespeare, and the green-eyed troublemaker…

Gabriella Mason is damaged.Teller Reddy is wrecked.Misery loves company, and that’s exactly what Ella gets the afternoon her path crosses with Teller’s: the misunderstood premed student who instantly becomes her lifeline when she moves to Los Angeles, an attempt at escaping her heartbreaking past. In the beginning, Lonely and Defensive complete each other. But in the end, their relationship is … end, their relationship is like broken glass—cutthroat and jagged. Calling it off before they kill each other, Ella and Teller decide to “just be friends” despite the intensity that binds them together. It’s a delicate foundation rocked by tragedy,…