Author/Uploaded by Christina Lauren
Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Prologue: Fizzy Chapter One: Fizzy Chapter Two: Connor Chapter Three: Connor Chapter Four: Fizzy Chapter Five: Connor Chapter Six: Fizzy Chapter Seven: Connor Chapter Eight: Fizzy Chapter Nine: Connor Chapter Ten: Fizzy Chapter Eleven: Fizzy Chapter Twelve: Connor C...
Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Prologue: Fizzy Chapter One: Fizzy Chapter Two: Connor Chapter Three: Connor Chapter Four: Fizzy Chapter Five: Connor Chapter Six: Fizzy Chapter Seven: Connor Chapter Eight: Fizzy Chapter Nine: Connor Chapter Ten: Fizzy Chapter Eleven: Fizzy Chapter Twelve: Connor Chapter Thirteen: Fizzy Chapter Fourteen: Connor Chapter Fifteen: Fizzy Chapter Sixteen: Connor Chapter Seventeen: Fizzy Chapter Eighteen: Connor Chapter Nineteen: Fizzy Chapter Twenty: Connor Chapter Twenty-One: Fizzy Chapter Twenty-Two: Connor Chapter Twenty-Three: Fizzy Chapter Twenty-Four: Connor Chapter Twenty-Five Chapter Twenty-Six: Fizzy Chapter Twenty-Seven: Fizzy Chapter Twenty-Eight: Connor Chapter Twenty-Nine: Fizzy Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirty-One: Connor Chapter Thirty-Two: Connor Chapter Thirty-Three: Fizzy Chapter Thirty-Four: Connor Chapter Thirty-Five: Fizzy Chapter Thirty-Six: Fizzy Chapter Thirty-Seven: Connor Chapter Thirty-Eight: Fizzy Chapter Thirty-Nine: Connor Chapter Forty: Connor Chapter Forty-One: Fizzy Chapter Forty-Two: Fizzy Chapter Forty-Three: Connor Chapter Forty-Four: Fizzy Chapter Forty-Five: Connor Chapter Forty-Six: Fizzy Chapter Forty-Seven: Connor Chapter Forty-Eight: Fizzy Chapter Forty-Nine: Fizzy Chapter Fifty: Fizzy Chapter Fifty-One Acknowledgments About the Author Copyright Guide Cover Start of Content Title Page Dedication Prologue Acknowledgments About the Author Copyright III V VI 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Soulmate Equation and Something Wilder Christina Lauren The True Love Experiment ALSO BY CHRISTINA LAUREN Dating You / Hating You Roomies Love and Other Words Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating My Favorite Half-Night Stand The Unhoneymooners Twice in a Blue Moon The Honey-Don’t List In a Holidaze The Soulmate Equation Something Wilder THE BEAUTIFUL SERIES Beautiful Bastard Beautiful Stranger Beautiful Bitch Beautiful Bombshell Beautiful Player Beautiful Beginning Beautiful Beloved Beautiful Secret Beautiful Boss Beautiful THE WILD SEASONS SERIES Sweet Filthy Boy Dirty Rowdy Thing Dark Wild Night Wicked Sexy Liar YOUNG ADULT The House Sublime Autoboyography This one is a blatant love letter to our genre. There be romance in these pages. And for Jennifer Yuen, Patty Lai, Eileen Ho, Kayla Lee, and Sandria Wong. There’s a piece of each of you in here. We are so grateful that you shared yourselves, and we hope we’ve made you proud. prologue FIZZY I was born the first of three children, but I joke that I’m like that first pancake.” A smattering of laughter ripples across the assembled crowd and I smile. “You know what I mean? A little messy, slightly undercooked, but still tastes good?” The laughter intensifies, but mixed in now are a few bawdy catcalls, and I burst out laughing in realization. “See, and that wasn’t even meant to sound saucy! Look at me trying to be professional, and I’m still a mess.” I glance over my shoulder and grin at Dr. Leila Nguyen, the provost of UC San Diego’s Revelle College and my former creative writing professor. “I guess that’s what you get for inviting a romance author to give the commencement address.” Beside Dr. Nguyen sits another person struggling to smother a smile. Dr. River Peña—close friend, hot genius, and unconfirmed vampire—is also a special guest today; I guess he’s receiving yet another honorary degree for being some type of sexy prodigy. He looks like he belongs up here: stiff collar, perfectly pressed suit pants visible below the hem of his full doctoral regalia, shiny dress shoes, and an air of austerity I’ve never been able to master. Right now, I can see the knowing amusement light up his smug, thickly lashed eyes. When I first received the invitation to speak at this ceremony,