We first meet Shaw when she is 5 years old and meets her best friend Carter. He stands up for her when a group of boys is bullying her in kindergarten and they have been friends since. Carter and Shaw meat Dane the following year and they are as close as can be. Dane and Carter protest Shaw like a sister. Shaw and her mother protect them as well. They grow up on the wrong side of the tracks and keep together as much as they can. Shaw has feelings for Carter, but shy of kissing thats all that Shaw has ever received in return.

Shaw and her mother have a great relationship full of love. Shaw dreams of a day where she will get her happily ever after just like in all the television, books, and movies she consumes on repeat. The older she gets the more she realizes that happily ever after may not be the reality for a girl like her. She needs to get paid to survive and things like romance and college are not likely.

Both Dane and Carter treat her like she is porcelain, scaring all the guys away from her. Thats obviously because Carter loves her, and Dane does too in his own ways. Even to help by paying for her and her mothers rent and utilities as Shaw’s mom has acted a mother to all of them. The money comes from various sources some of them not what many would consider legitimate, including construction day labor, underground fighting and more. Carter tries to stay with the less shady endeavors, but Dane will do what he has to do.

Until he has to leave town….


Review:

WOW. This book took me to places I didn’t think it was going to go to. I get that we all do what we need to do to get by, but just wow. I didn’t hate this book. I think it felt a bit rushed at the end, which I didn’t like. I will definitely read something else from this author as the writing was good. I give this book a 3/5