Damaged Goods — Nicole Williams

From NEW YORK TIMES and USATODAY bestselling author Nicole Williams . . . When Liv Bennett said goodbye to the sinkhole of a town she grew up in, she hoped she'd left that chapter of her life behind forever. But forever turned out to only be three years. Returning home to her two younger sisters after their addict of a mother up and disappeared, Liv promptly reinstitutes her golden rule that got her through her first nineteen years of life without getting knocked up, roughed up, or messed up: Don't date the local boys and god forbid, don't fall in love with one of them. It isn't long before that golden rule is put to the test. Will Goods isn't the same boy she remembers growing up by in the next trailer over. The wild, careless boy who used to tear up the town with his three brothers has morphed into someone else so completely, he's almost unrecognizable. The quiet, contemplative man who works on cars by night and takes care of his mentally ill mother during the day is nothing like any of the local boys Liv grew up avoiding. But just when Liv considers suspending her golden rule this one time, she finds out something about Will that will change everything. Will Goods isn't who he used to be; he's not even the man Liv thinks she's gotten to know over the summer. He's someone else entirely. He's become . . . Damaged Goods. ***Damaged Goods is the second book in The Outsider Chronicles, although each book in the series highlights different couples and each can be read as a stand alone.*** Show less