A Son of Carver by Haven Francis
Age Group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Buy Links: Amazon
Summary:
Sometimes the best version of yourself is the
one you can only see through someone else’s eyes. But what happens when those
eyes belong to the one person you don’t want them to?
Thanks to her father’s
affair and her parent’s resulting separation, Presley Knox has been ripped from
her life in California and dropped into an abyss in the middle of Georgia. With
her alternative looks and creative spirit, trying to find her place in a sea of
jocks and cheerleaders is hard, but doing it while living with her cousin who
belittles her every chance she gets is almost impossible.
There is one person
in Carver who embodies everything Presley hates about her new life and she
can’t help but use him as the outlet for all of her frustrations.
Nash Carter’s bad boy
image isn’t a façade; he drinks too much, sleeps around, makes his money street
racing and has zero plans for his future beyond living a rowdy life with his
likeminded dad and older brother. His good looks, cut body and popularity have
always gotten him anything and anyone
he’s ever wanted. That is until Presley Knox showed up at Carver High.
Nash knows to steer clear
of Presley and her sharp tongue that’s always aimed at him. But that becomes
impossible when they’re paired together for a semester-long photography
assignment that promises to push them into the depths of each other’s personal
lives. In order to survive the semester, Nash implements a new strategy: get
the one girl who’s immune to his charm to change her mind about him.
With Nash’s unwavering pursuit
to know everything about her, and with
the nagging voice inside her head that’s insisting there’s more to him than
she’s letting herself see, Presley struggles to keep her wall firmly in place. When
it slowly begins to crumble, Nash wonders if he should have kept his distance after
all because the girl that’s been hiding under Presley’s hard shell is breaking
his heart wide open.
Nash has been a lot of
things to a lot of girls, but Presley’s the only one he’s ever wanted to
shelter and protect. But how is he going to do that when he knows she’s right
to keep their friendship a secret in order to protect herself from him?
Excerpt:
“From one to ten, how much do you hate living here?” I ask Presley.
She laughs – a normal cute laugh, not an angry one. “Depends on where I am.”
“You’re here; in your room… with me.”
She rolls her eyes at me. “Ten’s the worst?”
“Yeah.”
“An eleven?” she smirks.
“Is it because the room part or the me part?” I ask, cocking my head at her.
“Both.”
I pout at her.
“Don’t even try that with me,” she says, narrowing her eyes.
“It’s cute,” I tell her.
She shakes her head.
“Come on, I’m cute – you have to admit it.”
“You’re not cute, Nash.”
