Reckless Hearts
In this second book set in the steamy Wicked Games series, two best friends - and potential soulmates - are torn apart by a dangerous game of deceit and identity theft.What do you do if you find yourself fantasizing about kissing your best friend? Sensitive guitarist Jake has been asking himself that same question for a long time, and there’s no easy answer. Telling his dream girl – talented anime artist Elena – about his feelings might lead to the ultimate rejection, but not telling her just might kill him.Before Jake can make his move, though, a new mysterious guy enters the picture in an unexpected way. In Elena’s mind, Harlow is excitement-personified: a rebellious yet kindred spirit who she instantly connected with online. Jake’s gut is telling him that something about Harlow is off, and that Elena is in way over her head, but the more Jake pushes the issue, the more he pushes Elena right into Harlow’s arms-and into a tragedy that neither of them would ever see coming.
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First published in the USA by HarperCollins Publishers Inc. in 2015
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Childrenâs Books in 2015
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Reckless Hearts
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DP Moversâtheir slogan was âYou point the way, Dream Point!ââhad arrived this morning at eight thirty. For the past three hours, theyâd been carting boxes of clothes and books and kitchen utensils, and mostly, the carved figurines and masks and exotic musical instruments Jake Gordonâs mother had collected from all over the world, into the flatbed of their truck and stacking them up in tight systematic rows. The moving truck, a pale cavernous brick of sea-foam aluminum, was almost full now. Almost ready to haul the history of Jakeâs life across town to the north shore, where the fancy people in Dream Point lived in their elaborate mansions, bunkered between their security gates and their private beaches.
Watching the movers sweat in the crisp December air, Jake had a hard time getting his head around the fact that he would be one of those fancy people now. He didnât feel like heâd changed at all, but his mother, Janey, had married Cameron Pendergrass, maybe the fanciest of them all. He owned the Mariana Hospitality Group, a chain of hotels all over the world, including three massive, full-service island resorts, one in the Bahamas, one in Antigua, and one on some island in the South China Sea. He was easily the richest person in Dream Point.
As the stringy tattooed guys who looked like they shouldnât be anywhere near this strong carried the last of the boxes from the house, Jake sat in a wicker-backed kitchen chair, its legs sinking into the moist soil of the front yard. He stared out at Greenvale Street and tried to distract himself from thinking how completely his life would change by wondering what would happen to all the stuff they were leaving behind. The couch, the dining room table, the bed heâd slept in since he was six years old, even the chair he was sitting in nowâthey were ditching all of it. The white stucco bungalow that Jake had always known as homeânew people would be living in it by New Yearâs.
And Elena Rios, his best friend and partner in skeptical endurance of the cliquey, shallow life at Chris Columbus High, who knew all his secrets, or all but oneâsheâd no longer be living right next door. Sheâd promised to hang out with him and watch the movers work this morning, and heâd dragged two wicker-backed chairs out onto the lawn, but the one next to him was still empty.
Heâd texted her three times already, giving her status updates on the moversâ progress, and all heâd heard back was one hard-to-interpret message saying, âTHESE THINGS TAKE TIME ;D.â Tilted on the uneven soil of the lawn, the chair looked sad and lonely beside him.
âHey, yo,â the crew captain called to him from the back of the truck, squinting under the dingy red Santa hat heâd draped over his head. âYou wanna sign off on this, or what?â He wagged a tin clipboard at Jake as though he thought Jake should have been able to read his mind.
Jake wandered over to the truck. His mother had put him in charge. She had to be at Tiki Tiki Java, the coffeehouse she owned on Shore Drive, and Cameron, obviously, wasnât interested in spending his precious time coordinating with moving companiesâhe had employees for that. School was out for Christmas break, so it wasnât like Jake had anywhere better to be, anyway.
