An Excerpt From
BROKEN HEARTS AND BAYSIDE: A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

Chapter 1

She road into town on her motorcycle. New school, new kids, new pressures. Tori Scott was a loner, used to packing up shop and moving around the country. By now all these places she once called home looked the same. This type of lifestyle didn’t lend itself well to making friends, let alone finding teenage love. On her first day of class, Tori met a boy who saw through her tough guy strut, her devil may care attitude, even the black leather jacket that she wore like a protective shell around her vulnerable heart. This boy was different from all the rest. This boy was special. From the moment they locked eyes she could see their future: sharing a mod in a college with their other high school friends, while gaining guidance from a former pro athlete, probably one who played for the San Francisco 49ers. After college she saw a wedding, somewhere tropical like Hawaii, where all their friends would be united one last time to celebrate their blessed union. In the halls of her new high school, Tori was sure, no positive, that she had met her soul mate. The boy she’d spend the rest of her life with. The boy noticed her staring at him. He lowered his giant cell phone and extended his hand. “Hey you must be new. I’m Zack Morris, welcome to Bayside.”