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Everyone thinks Nora Blakely is perfect. And why wouldn’t they? Valedictorian of her class and a Texas beauty queen, she’s on her way to Princeton and seems to have it all.<\/p>\n
Until the day she cracks wide open in front of the entire school.<\/p>\n
Leo Tate is a tattooed bad boy who’s sworn to never fall in love, especially<\/strong> with a girl in high school.<\/p>\n But she keeps showing up at his gym, wearing short skirts and tempting him with her list of bad things.<\/p>\n He wants to resist her, but with one touch of her lips, forbidden love has never tasted so sweet.<\/p>\n Welcome to Briarwood Academy . . . where sometimes, the best things in life are VERY BAD THINGS.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A ballerina from the wrong side of town… Ballerina Dovey Beckham is determined to prove she’s more than just a girl with the wrong pedigree. She does whatever it takes to succeed, even if that means surrendering her body but never her heart.<\/p>\n Until the day she meets him<\/b>, Cuba Hudson, the most popular guy at Briarwood Academy.<\/p>\n Suddenly, the girl everyone thought unbreakable might just shatter.<\/p>\n Cuba “Hollywood” Hudson might be a star football player, but his life has never been perfect.<\/p>\n Until the day he meets her, and she offers him something he’s never had.<\/p>\n Their passion is electric, their connection deep, but once in a lifetime kind of love doesn’t come easy…especially when dirty money and past sins come calling.<\/p>\n Welcome to Briarwood Academy . . . where sometimes, the best things in life are VERY WICKED THINGS.<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/b>Blond, hot-as-hell, and straight up talented, Sebastian Tate is the most famous rock god in the world. Just ask him.<\/p>\n A reclusive violinist, Violet St. Lyons is the lone survivor of plane crash where she lost everyone she loved.<\/p>\n He\u2019s the life of the party with girls chasing him down for his autograph. She\u2019s the introvert with a potty mouth who doesn\u2019t even know who he is.<\/p>\n And when they finally meet\u2014he doesn\u2019t dare mention that he\u2019s been spying on her for weeks.<\/p>\n Giving his heart to a girl isn\u2019t Sebastian\u2019s plan; falling for a guy who craves attention isn\u2019t Violet\u2019s.<\/p>\n Welcome to Briarwood Academy\u2014Hollywood style\u2014where sometimes the best things in life are\u00a0VERY TWISTED THINGS. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Briarwood Academy Series from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills has a brand-new look! To celebrate, Very Bad Things, the first standalone in this angsty new-adult series, is FREE for a limited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[962,357],"class_list":["post-40811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-news","tag-briarwood-academy","tag-ilsa-madden-mills"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Briarwood-Academy.jpg?fit=603%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gaNL-aCf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVERY WICKED THINGS (#2)
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\nThe football star who can’t forget her…<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\nVERY TWISTED THINGS (#3)
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\nA beautiful violinist…
\nAnd the rock star who spies on her\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n
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