But the more time they spend together, the more tempting they become to each other. They’re absolutely attracted to each other, but neither can take that next step because of their secrets. They strike up a cautious friendship, with him offering to help her with Stats and her offering to help him through Music Theory. He’s bound and determined that won’t happen.īridger catches Scarlet staring at him in Stats class. But he knows that if Social Services finds out about his mom or that he has Lucy, they’ll remove her from his care. He knows his best friend Adam’s mom would take Lucy in, but she’s just started college (the first thing she’s really ever done just for herself) and he doesn’t want to impose upon her generosity and kindness. He has no family in the area and is unwilling to tell his secret to anyone. He’s been hiding her in his dorm room ever since. The last time he was home, he found drug paraphernalia on the dining room table, and he promptly removed his seven year old sister, Lucy from the home.

Since his dad’s death, his mother has become an addict.

He’s gorgeous, a former hockey player and seems really friendly. She enrolls in a Stats class and meets Bridger McCauley. She arrives at college, immediately informs the hockey coach that she can’t play for her, and tries to get on with her life. She lost friends, and her position on the squad. She became an outcast, despite being a well recruited, extremely talented hockey player. Her senior year in high school was awful. She does this by legally changing her name to Scarlet Crowley and fleeing to Harkness College where she hopes no one will recognize her. He was a pretty horrible father, always cold and critical. She honestly doesn’t know if her dad is guilty. The daughter of a well known former NHL star, and current hockey coach who is now accused of molesting multiple young boys, she wants nothing more than to escape the relentless news reporters and ooglers who chase her family and have made her a prisoner in her own home. Of course, I immediately bought and gorged on book two, The Year We Hid Away, which I think I enjoyed even more that The Year We Fell Down. So this weekend I opened The Year We Fell Downand gobbled it up in giant bites. But why I ever question Jane when she directly says to me, “I’m sure you’ll like these books” is beyond me. I like my romance straightforward with the issues coming internally, rather than externally. I’ll be honest, I was hesitant to read it because generally speaking, I’m not a big fan of “issue” books. Jane read your first book in the Ivy Years Series, The Year We Fell Down, and really enjoyed it.

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