**No other book needs to be read before this book
Teen romance by Melanie Marks, author of The Dating Deal; Fall For Me; and His Kiss (Her newest book: BECK BAIT)
Trent Ryan—My mom surprised me for my seventeenth birthday with a computer that she won on an online auction. Turns out the files from the computer’s previous owner were recoverable … and I recovered them. And what I read—whoa. Holy smokes! It rocked my world. It was a girl’s journal. A girl that lived in Australia for all I knew … at first.
Not going to lie, I was kind of falling in love with the mystery girl, but I figured I would never meet her. Only as I read about the girl’s life I slowly began to realize not only was I falling for the girl … but I KNEW the girl. Well, sort of. Her name was Megan, and she went to my school. Only she’s what my cynical ex-girlfriend calls, “Miss Goodness and Light.†Not exactly my type. Usually. But now that I knew her innermost thoughts—man, I could NOT get Miss Goodness and Light out of my head. Or my heart. Only, HER heart still belonged to her cheating ex-boyfriend. So, I had to come up with a way to make her give me a chance … without her actually knowing she was GIVING me a chance. (‘Cause I wasn’t exactly HER type either.) (I’m kind of known as a “player.â€) So, I made Miss Goodness and Light a deal—the Dating Deal—I’d help her get her boyfriend jealous and let him see what a desirable, awesome girl he was losing. But the thing was, I already knew what an awesome, desirable girl he was losing … and I wanted him to lose her. Bad.
Suddenly, this dirt-wad player (me) wasn’t playing around. For once in my life I was serious about a girl.… Only the girl “seriously†didn’t want anything to do with me. Well, anyway, she was TRYING that—to not want me. But hey, good luck with that.
**Note: This is Trent’s version of Melanie Marks’ novel, The Dating Deal.
The book also contains the stories: The Girl Next Door and Rune’s Story. Each are about an hour read. The Girl Next Door is Luke’s version of Melanie Marks' book, HIS BEST FRIEND. Rune’s Story is Rune’s version of LITTLE DANCER. (No book needs to be read before either story.)
Note: this book also contains two short stories about Matt & Nicole, and Ally & Griffin in middle school. If you are not following that series the two stories are short and can easily be ignored (or enjoyed).