Rebel Boys and Rescue Dogs, or Things That Kiss with Teeth, Paperback

Seventeen-year-old Brynn Riley is on a hundred committees, has earned teacher's pet in practically every class she's ever taken, and is on track to make valedictorian.

But one night, Brynn makes a mistake. A big one.

Why wouldn't the cops show up on the one night she's ever cut loose in her life? Why wouldn't she be assigned community service for one tiny mistake? And why, of all things, wouldn't a boy from school happen to work at the pitbull rescue where she chooses to do her community service hours?

Oliver West's dad owns the rescue. And Oliver works there as his second in command. And Brynn and Oliver both know that she absolutely screwed him out of a major scholarship opportunity at school earlier in the semester. If he tells anyone at school that she was arrested, everything she's worked so hard for will be disappear.

If Brynn doesn't want her secret spilled, she'd better start taking Oliver seriously. He'll keep quiet if she helps him get another shot at the scholarship project (since she ruined it, after all).

As the two get closer, the stakes begin to shift. Brynn starts to want Oliver for more than the community service checkmark that will give her back her squeaky-clean record, and Oliver, as it turns out, takes Brynn Riley very, very seriously. But, well . . . you know what they say: Nothing brings people together like blackmail, pitbulls, and court-ordered community service.

About author(s):Brianna R. Shrum has been writing since she could scrawl letters. She digs all things bookish, geeky, superhero-y, gamer-y, magical, and strange. You can usually find her writing under her Harry Potter tree, and drinking chai (which she holds as proof of magic in the world.) She is also the author of How to Make Out, The Art of French Kissing, Kissing Ezra Holtz, The Liar's Guide to the Night Sky, and Never Never. She lives in Charlotte, South Carolina, with her two little boys.