Last Train Home

17-year-old Riley Regas has spent her entire life in Boston, so when she learns shell be picking up and moving to her mothers childhood home of Carver, Kansas, she is less than thrilled. In fact, she is downright furious. Rileys only visited Carver a handful of times. She barely knows her family that lives there and she has no desire to spend her senior year among the backward, simpleminded residents of Carver. Reluctantly though, her views begin to change, despite her encounters with Adrienne, a girl Riley quickly realizes is determined to make her life miserable, when she meets Alex Bettencourt. Alex is popular and gorgeous and Rileys never seen brown eyes quite like his before. While Riley couldnt be happier, she knows Jesse, her best friend in Carver, isnt sure of her new relationship with Alex. She soon finds a balance between Alex and her friends though and life in Carver doesnt seem so bad after all, even if her relationship with her mother is rocky at best. Just when Riley thinks she might be happy in Carver, a single decision changes it all, leaving her to find out who she really is and who matters most in her life before she loses everything. This is the first of three books in The Home Series.