About this ebook
♥ Friends-to-lovers
♥ A bookish, romantic heroine
♥ A bad boy with a soft side
♥ Slow-burn romance
♥ Fun match-making subplot
♥ A complete, stand-alone story
When she was eight, Rourke moved away from her hometown and left her best friend, Dallas, behind. But thanks to the internet, they've stayed in touch—and grown closer than ever, sharing jokes, memes, and one personal crisis after another.
Now it's senior year, and Rourke is suddenly back in town. And while she's thrilled to reunite with Dallas, she realizes it won't be easy seeing him in person again every day. Because over the years, she's completely fallen for him…but she's convinced he can never return her feelings.
As his high school's resident drama heartthrob, Dallas is known for his passionate starring performances. Unfortunately, his Romeo act isn't only confined to the boards. Off-stage, he's so successful with girls that other guys come to him for lessons.
Although Rourke knows there's a lot more to Dallas than the charismatic, seemingly carefree playboy everyone else sees, she still doubts he could ever be satisfied with only one girl, especially not one as bookish and old-fashioned as herself.
Rourke longs for true love, marriage, and a family someday, and she knows the smart thing to do would be to get over Dallas and move on to a guy who shares her hopes and dreams—or else resign herself to only finding happily-ever-after within the pages of her favorite romance novels.
But if Rourke found her best pal's charms difficult to resist when there were hundreds of miles separating the two of them, now that she's living right down the street from him again, it seems downright impossible. Especially with Dallas sending her so many strangely mixed messages concerning his feelings for her…
More About the Book:
♥ A lighthearted, humorous contemporary YA romance
♥ Told in third person from both Rourke's and Dallas's POV
♥ A complete, stand-alone story, approximately 80,000 words in length; no cliffhangers
♥ Includes excerpts from Fear and Laundry and A Very Merry Carreen Halloween
♥ Contains PG-13 content (kissing, some crude humor and mild swearing)
Associated Titles:
While The Real You may be enjoyed on its own as a stand-alone novel, it shares a setting with, and features some characters from, Elizabeth's previous novels, Fear and Laundry and Fear and Laundry 2, also available now.
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About the author
Elizabeth Myles enjoys reading and writing lighthearted romance. Her favorite stories feature sweet heroines and noble heroes. She is a graduate of Lone Star College-Tomball and the University of Houston. Her prize-winning short fiction appeared several times in Inkling: The Creative Arts Magazine of LSC-Tomball, and her novel, Fear and Laundry, received a notable entry honor in the teen category of Shelf Unbound Magazine's Writing Competition for Best Independently Published Book. Shelf Unbound subsequently included Fear and Laundry in a special contest issue spotlighting the work of “some of today’s best indie authors.”
Elizabeth and her handsome husband, Steve, live and run together in Texas. When she is not writing, Elizabeth can be found reading, cooking, or baking, often while listening to Nine Inch Nails and other rock music. She enjoys watching sci-fi and horror movies, and her favorite television shows are “Supernatural” and “The X-Files.” Connect with her at elizabethmyles.com.
