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Ryder Clark was a wild child. The day he turned twenty-two, he got in his car, pointed it west, and never looked back. Life was clubbing, booze, and the mornings after. Until today. Swept up in events set in motion decades ago, Ryder can’t run from his past this time—not when his past flies across the country to visit him. Yet even his problems are mundane compared to those of his new boss. James is intelligent, handsome, and… a vampire. He’s also magnetic, and Ryder can’t resist the pull. Apparently neither can the person who keeps trying to kill them.

Both thorough and crisp, Natasha Rae Simmons tries her best to explain what social anxiety is, how avoidance and other safety behaviors only serve to aggravate its symptoms, and how teenagers can learn to cope with it, and eventually overcome this disorder. Even as she talks about the typical and more taboo aspects of social anxiety in this book, Natasha never blames or shames a teen for being socially anxious.