Star Crossed: A Secret Identity Romance

By Heather Stone

Sorority Secrets: The virgins of Beta Kappa Nu would do anything for each other. Even auction off their most valuable asset…

Graduate high school early? Check.

Valedictorian? Check.

Voice of reason? Um…

Caroline Littrell might be the baby of Beta Kappa Nu, but she’s also the brains. When her sisters concoct the ridiculous idea to auction off their virginity for charity, she’s adamantly against it…a promise is a promise, but quiet, Ÿbersmart Caroline has a backup plan.

All she has to do is track down Mathewson Jameson—campus legend, local rock god, total jerk—and convince him to play a charity concert for them instead.

The problem? Mathewson isn’t quite the jerk Caroline imagined. In fact, he’s quite the opposite: patient, giving, gentle. And the only one she wants to be with, first time or forever…

This book is approximately 16,000 words

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Carina Press
• Release date: Sep 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781488038792

Book preview

Chapter One

Caroline

I can’t concentrate.

The professor drones on and on about God knows what, but every time I try to listen to what she’s rambling about, last night’s chapter meeting replays over and over again in my mind. We need money. Bad. Not just the sorority, but one of my sorority sisters too. The dog shelter that the girls and I volunteered with burned to the ground, and the animals, they need us. On top of that, her brother was severely burned in the fire. He needs help to cover his medical bills, so we offered our assistance. It’s not the idea of helping them that has my mind muddled, but more the how.

The girls want to auction off our virginity. The same precious virginity we made a pact to maintain is now on the chopping block, and I feel sick about it.

And not only because I lied.

I’m no virgin. My virginity was lost years ago, to a prick who didn’t deserve it. He took everything—including my heart—and then left me.

I shake off the ghosts from my past and get back to the worry at hand. I don’t know what to do. I proposed we raise money in other ways, which the girls agreed to consider, but they refused to postpone the auction while they wait for phantom funds to come in.

My idea was to hold a concert headlined by campus legends Punch-Drunk Kids. All proceeds would go to the fund. They all loved the idea but feared the band couldn’t fit us in on such short notice. I was told to proceed and update them on my progress at next week’s meeting. I sent the band an email, but haven’t received a reply. It probably doesn’t help that I know nothing about the band. I don’t partake in typical campus events and I’m afraid my email made that obvious. If I had only looked at our campus website, I’d have known that the date I proposed is out since they are already booked. I make a mental note to follow up after I check the band’s website—assuming they even have one.

Bottom line, we need the money and I need this concert to come through, because the alternative is not an option for me. I lied when I said I was untouched. What if the highest bidder is pissed I’m not a virgin, and informs the girls I didn’t tell them the truth? Will they kick me out of Beta Kappa Nu for lying? Will they ever trust me again? How can I stay in the sorority if they can’t trust me? I’ll have no choice but to deactivate. If that happens what will my mother say? She’ll kill me. It’s her legacy I’d destroy. She’s the only reason I joined this freaking sorority.

I’ve spent the last two years reinventing myself. Even though I partied hard my freshman and sophomore year of high school, I never let my grades drop, which worked in my favor, but once I became a junior I really excelled. I did everything I needed to do to be the best in my class, including swearing off men. I followed my mother’s plans for me—followed in her footsteps—and became the treasurer for Beta Kappa Nu, despite my own wishes. She was a Beta Kappa Nu, and so was my grandmother. It was my destiny, she claimed. If she knew that Brad Hayes took my coveted virginity, she might disown me.

Then there’s the whole issue of not being in control. What if the guy who bids on me isn’t attractive? What if he has some sort of disease? Ugh. This whole thing is a freaking mess.

I’ve only slept with one person and the entire act was tainted by the events that occurred after. The thought of rehashing my past due to an auction I want no part in has my anxiety at an all-time high. I just want to forget. Like I have tried desperately to do for two freaking years.

Not that the whole situation doesn’t have my brain stuck on sex. I’m practically a born-again. If your pussy hasn’t been touched in two years, that should automatically make you a virgin again. Right? My head falls back against my chair as my pussy throbs in need. Unfamiliar thoughts flood my mind as I try to think of anything other than a thick, hard cock giving me everything it’s supposed to be.

My gaze pulls forward to the boy sitting in front of me. Mathewson. Would I be lucky enough to get someone who looks like him? Unruly dirty blond hair and eyes so blue they remind me of a stormy day at sea.

Fucking him would be no skin off my back. In fact, it would be a dream. He could possibly turn the word sex around for me. I would enjoy it. Thoroughly. What would his lips taste like? My lids flutter closed of their own accord, and I imagine it in vivid detail.

* * *

He steps into me, reaching out his arms to cage me into the wall. The thick-corded muscles in his shoulder flex at the movement. He’s so close. Too close. My chest rises and

Reviews for Star Crossed

[nelispelusa · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Rcvd an ARC at no cost to author..(netgalley) This is another short installment in the Sorority Secrets series.. We meet Caroline who is one of the sorority sisters who is auctioning off her virginity, even thought she is not one. She is afraid that they will kick her off of sorority if she admits that she lied to get in, knowing that her family would be upset and she also doesn't want them not to trust her. She decides that she will get a college band to play a charity concert and make enough money that they wont have to go thru auction. When she reaches out to band the lead singer is a jerk and she decides to go personally and it turns out that the lead singer is the hottie that she has been crushing on. When Matt sees that it is Caroline that is asking things change since he has wanted her from the very beginning.