After blazing through all that she could find online and then tiring of waiting for updates from erratic authors (many of them teens juggling writing and school), Todd decided to attempt her own series. Since the previous fall, she’d also indulged an addiction to One Direction fan fiction-stories featuring the boy band in imagined scenarios. Wuthering Heights, Twilight, The Things They Carried. While caring for her son and taking online community-college courses, she helped support the family by babysitting for a neighbor and working the beauty counter at Ulta. Todd was 24 years old and living near Fort Hood, Texas, with her husband, a soldier she had married a month after graduating high school, and their newborn, who suffered daily seizures. Then she propped her elbows on her shopping cart and began to type.

Tessa already has the perfect boyfriend.One afternoon in the summer of 2013, Anna Todd was in the checkout line at Target when, as most of us do, she pulled out her phone. He pushes her away again and again, yet every time she pushes back, he only pulls her in deeper. Despite the reckless way he treats her, Tessa is compelled to dig deeper and find the real Hardin beneath all his lies. He'll call her beautiful, then insist he isn’t the one for her and disappear again and again. Something about his dark mood grabs her, and when they kiss it ignites within her a passion she’s never known before. And she does-until she finds herself alone with him in his room. For all his attitude, Tessa should hate Hardin. With his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, and tattoos, Hardin is cute and different from what she’s used to.īut he’s also rude-to the point of cruelty, even. She’s got direction, ambition, and a mother who’s intent on keeping her that way.īut she’s barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin. Tessa is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home.

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