4.75 stars! 
 It all started with an assault. 
 When Jacqueline follows her longtime boyfriend to the college of his choice, the last thing she expects is a breakup. After two weeks in shock, she wakes up to her new reality: she's single, attending a state university instead of a music conservatory, ignored by her former circle of friends, stalked by her ex's frat brother, and failing a class for the first time in her life. 
 Her econ professor gives her an email address for Landon, the class tutor, who shows her that she's still the same intelligent girl she's always been. As Jacqueline becomes interested in more from her tutor than a better grade, his teasing responses make the feeling seem mutual. There's just one problem--their only interactions are through email. 
 Meanwhile, a guy in her econ class proves his worth the first night she meets him. Nothing like her popular ex or her brainy tutor, Lucas sits on the back row, sketching in a notebook and staring at her. At a downtown club, he disappears after several dances that leave her on fire. When he asks if he can sketch her, alone in her room, she agrees--hoping for more. 
 "I had never noticed Lucas before that night. It was as though he didn't exist, and then suddently, he was everywhere." 
 This book was a surprise to me. Although a contemporary, young adult romance, this book was so much more, and really much more about Jacqueline's journey of self discovery. The story begins with an assault, and that type of assault has monumental meaning throughout the book, encompassing different characters, and a affecting them in their own ways. Jacqueline must learn to find strength in herself in order to become the person she needs to be for herself. This is what sets this book apart from many other YA, contemporary romance novels of today. This book is not about her relationship with the hot guy, it was about finding strength in herself, in order to be strong enough to give to someone else. 
 "I gave myself credit for becoming a survivor. I had survived Kennedy's decision to end our relationship. I had survived what Buck tried to do to me. And I would survive if Lucas wouldn't - or couldn't trust me with his personal demons." 
 And, as for Lucas. He is not like other boys in YA romances (although I would argue that this book is more contemporary romance than YA, it's a bit too adult in the writing, as well as the themes to be considered YA). We know that he is harboring these deep personal demons, but when we find out the secret he has been keeping, and why he is the way he is, it is heart breaking. I literally cried when Jacqueline learned about his past, I wanted to hold him and tell him that it would all be okay. 
 All I can say for the ending is what the author said in her own acknowledgments section; "I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life." I wholeheartedly agree, Ms. Webber!