I am not a slut, although I’ve been called one often enough. Yeah, I spent three months screwing one of my college professors, but I was crazy about the guy. Then he broke up with me.

I am not a bitch, although people like to say I am. I kept our relationship secret. I’m not responsible for telling the university administrators about it, but a lot of students still blame me for getting their favorite professor fired.

I am not a drama queen, although everyone thinks I am now. When I got a few nasty messages, I just deleted them. When I got the threat, I assumed it was someone being stupid. I still think that’s all it was. My parents worry, though, so they hired me a bodyguard. Now Jack follows me around, intimidating everyone who approaches me and looking obnoxiously hot.

This is what I am. I’m Chloe. I’m a twenty-year-old art history major. Kind of shy, although I pretend not to be. Stubborn enough to stay here for my senior year, even though everyone hates me.

And I’m stuck with Jack.

He calls me “Princess,” but I’m not a princess either.

AUTHOR’S TAKE ON JACK FROM KNOWING JACK
By Rachel Curtis

Jack Milton was raised by his father, who runs a security company and trained his son from the cradle to be a bodyguard. He’s strong and skillful and committed to his job, but he’s haunted by something from his past—a time when he believes he failed—and he can’t get past it or move forward with his life afterwards. So he sees himself in a kind of stasis, stuck in a job he’s good at but he isn’t sure he wants, working for a father he can never please, not really sure he can ever be happy or fulfilled.

He falls for Chloe almost immediately, but doesn’t think he can ever have her. So he’s caught between what he desperately wants and what he thinks is the reality of his life—the idea that he can never let go, because bad things happen when he lets go.

He’s gorgeous, of course—and kind of rough around the edges. He calls himself a “cheap-stuff” guy when Chloe is an “expensive stuff” girl, which is another reason he doesn’t think they can be together. Chloe teases him that he’s not bad-ass enough because he doesn’t have a criminal record, he doesn’t have any tattoos, and he wasn’t a Special Forces powerhouse. But, when she sees him in action, she decides he’s pretty bad-ass after all.

Even when he gives into his desire for Chloe, he keeps trying to hold back and get control of his world again…but Chloe has changed everything and he has to rethink his entire life because of her.

Rachel is a writer, a teacher, a romance reader, and a dog-mom. She loves animals and art and hot men with soft hearts under a tough exterior. She tries to write love stories that feel real, even in unlikely circumstances.

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