Slut or saint? Good friend or bad friend? In control or completely out of it?

Life is about choices, and Natalie Sterling prides herself on making the right ones. She’s avoided the jerky guys populating her prep school, always topped honor roll, and is poised to be the first female student council president in years.

If only other girls were as sensible and strong. Like the pack of freshmen yearning to be football players’ playthings. Or her best friend, whose crappy judgment nearly ruined her life.

But being sensible and strong isn’t easy. Not when a prank nearly gets her expelled. Not when her advice hurts more than it helps. Not when a boy she once dismissed becomes the boy she can’t stop thinking about.

The line between good and bad has gone fuzzy, and crossing it could end in disaster . . . or become the best choice she’ll ever make.

STAR       “Can teen girls own their sexuality and be taken seriously? It's rare to see second- and third-wave feminism square off in YA literature so successfully; don't miss this round.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Vivian challenges the assumptions about sex being rampant in high school and sends a positive message about acceptance, forgiveness, and love.”

—Booklist

“The dialogue and emotional honesty are pitch-perfect. Natalie and Connor’s love scenes are as steamy and fraught as anything in Judy Blume’s Forever. . . . This protagonist is the perfect representation of a conflicted 21st-century feminist teen.” 

—School Library Journal

“She treads a delicate path that explores first love, hard-won independence and all the obstacles that make growing up such an intense challenge and triumph. Any girl, or anyone who cares about girls, will enjoy this book’s riches.”

—Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Kirkus’ Reviews Best Book
of the Year

YALSA Best Book for Young Adults

Carolyn W. Field Award Nominee

International Editions
Brasil—Novo Conceito
Turkey—Yakamoz