Choosing You by Allie Everhart is the first book in her Jade series. It is a romance that is low on explicit steam but high on the butterflies list. It has a cliffhanger ending, but fear not, the other books in the series are already out. Phew! Well-paced and well-written with just enough angst to make you hurt for them, the characters in this book will endear themselves to you very quickly. 
 Jade has had a ridiculously tough life but catches a break hen she earns a scholarship to an elite private school. This is where she meets Garrett and the connection between them is there right away but the walls she has up are in the way of them exploring this connection. She knows Garrett is from a rich, entitled family and that they basically won't approve of her. So why bother? 
 With a few surprises and many obstacles these two young people battle adversity and their own personal demons to find love.