Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

Contents Cover Other Titles Title Page Copyright Contents Dedication Author’s Note Glossary September Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three October Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven November Chapter Eight December Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen February Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Acknowledgments About the Author Landmarks Cover Cover Title Page Contents Start Copyright Print Page List ii iii iv v vii ix x xi 1 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 65 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 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 139 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 235 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 317 318 319 321 323 
 
 
 
 
 ALSO BY TALIA HIBBERT
 THE BROWN SISTERS TRILOGY
 Get a Life, Chloe Brown
 Take a Hint, Dani Brown
 Act Your Age, Eve Brown
 THE RAVENSWOOD SERIES
 A Girl Like Her
 Damaged Goods
 Untouchable
 That Kind of Guy
 STANDALONES
 The Princess Trap
 The Roommate Risk
 Work for It
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Contents
 
 Cover
 Also by Talia Hibbert
 Title Page
 Copyright
 Dedication
 Author’s Note
 Glossary
 
 
 September
 
 Chapter One
 
 
 Chapter Two
 
 
 Chapter Three
 
 
 
 October
 
 Chapter Four
 
 
 Chapter Five
 
 
 Chapter Six
 
 
 Chapter Seven
 
 
 
 November
 
 Chapter Eight
 
 
 
 December
 
 Chapter Nine
 
 
 Chapter Ten
 
 
 Chapter Eleven
 
 
 Chapter Twelve
 
 
 Chapter Thirteen
 
 
 
 February
 
 Chapter Fourteen
 
 
 Chapter Fifteen
 
 
 Chapter Sixteen
 
 
 Chapter Seventeen
 
 
 Chapter Eighteen
 
 
 Chapter Nineteen
 
 
 
 Acknowledgments
 About the Author
 
 
 
 
 For Sam,
 my very own high school sweetheart
 
 
 
 AUTHOR’S NOTE
 This story involves parental abandonment and a portrayal of living with obsessive compulsive disorder. I hope I have handled my characters’ experiences with the care they, and you, the reader, deserve.
 This story also involves highly fictionalized portrayals of existing forests. I am very sorry for all the geographical inaccuracies. In my defense, I did it for the feels.
 
 
 
 GLOSSARY
 Bradley and Celine’s story is set in England and Scotland because I, the author, am British and don’t get out much. While working on this story with my American editor, we stumbled across a few colloquialisms and cultural references that don’t directly translate. So we’ve put together this handy-dandy glossary for anyone who needs it. Enjoy!
 
 A*: The highest achievable grade in the UK. (The letter system was recently replaced by a number system, which is a travesty for overachievers everywhere, but at least in this book A*s will live on forever.)
 academy: An educational provision that is run like a nonprofit company.
 AS results: AS Levels are a qualification Bradley and Celine studied last year. This year, they will study for A Levels. (There are numerous different qualifications students can aim for after