A Girl Like That

Synopsis

You Love Her Or You Hate Her. Or You Love To Hate Her. Notorious Mean Girl Elle Mclarin Desperately Needs To Reinvent Herself. Growing Up With Her Grandparents In Their Small North Carolina Mountain Community After Her Teenage Mother, Who Named Her For A Fashion Magazine, Ditched The Idea Of Motherhood And Disappeared, Elle Found Her Upbringing To Be Tougher Than Most. Add To That A Near-tragic Mistake--drugging High School Hunk Kyle Davis At A Party, Which Landed Her In Prison For A Year--and Elle Has Long Since Paid Her Debt To Society. Nineteen Years After Being Dubbed Badass Barbie In High School, And With Her Grandparents Now Passed Away And Her Son Joining The Army, Elle Is Ready To Pull Up Her Bootstraps--and Her Roots--and Go Where No One Will Know Her, Or What She Did. In Coastal Wilmington, Elle Opens A Bakery With The Proceeds From Selling Her Grandmother's Cabin. Hoping To Turn Her Life Around, She Still Struggles With Her Constant Good Elle/bad Elle Inner Dialogue. But Elle's Electric And Budding New Relationships Help Her To Move Outside Of Her Head To See The Possibilities That Surround Her. Then A Remarkable Event Brings Elle Into The Limelight, Causing A Jealous Bystander To Uncover Elle's Sordid Past, Threatening To Expose Her And Drag Her Under Once More.--page 4 Of Cover.