Torn

September 15, 2013
Eager to escape her past, Chloe Richards is excited to begin her freshman year at West Virginia University, accompanied by her two friends, Amber and Logan. The trio has long been bound together by the events of Chloe's difficult childhood. As Chloe enters her first class and plops down in a random seat, she turns to lock eyes with the ultimate bad boy: mussed-up hair, tattoos, piercings, and a face that won't leave her mind any time soon. Drake Allen has only ever cared about himself, his band, and the next pretty thing he can get into his bed. But when Chloe stumbles into his life, he can't help but be charmed by her veracity and wit. Just as Chloe and Drake start to become close, Chloe is confronted with a decision that threatens to destroy everything she cares about. Robinson's gut-wrenching debut new-adult romance is filled with passion, heartache, and characters that entrance readers down to the last page and directly into Twisted, the second book of the series. (See review below.)(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)