About the book: year / EMILY MICHAELS Have you ever felt like you didn't belong here? That never fit in or weren't good enough? That's exactly how I feel here. I see the world differently than everyone else, I feel everything differently and I think about life differently than everyone else. And being different in my world is bad. I live in a place where everyone is divided into rich and poor, beautiful and ugly, influential and ordinary. My father was the governor of Georgia, so I always belonged to the first category. I grew up among people with whom I could never get along. My life has always been lonely, and this continued until my senior year when I met a boy who changed my life forever. A boy my parents would never approve of because he was not part of the upper class. He had tattoos, rode a motorcycle, and was a lowlife kid. And yet, many were jealous of him. Every guy was afraid of Rider Jameson, and every girl craved his attention. He had no friends or attachments... until me. And for the first time in my life, I finally felt that I belonged here. When I was with him, my difference didn't feel wrong or ugly. He made me feel beautiful - to the core. And then one day my world came crashing down and it was six years before I met the boy I fell in love with again. RYDER JAMESON After I bust my ass, I get a chance to prove myself. If I succeed, I will become the youngest FBI agent to conduct one of the largest covert operations in history. Except this case is sending me to a place I swore I would never return to. To the only girl who ever mattered to me. Only Emily Michaels is no longer the girl I left behind. She still looks exactly the same, beautiful inside and out, but something has changed about her, something important. I didn't think this was possible. Ryder and I come from a world where politics divides us and wealth defines us, but even after all this time we won't let it all divide us. This is our story.