Playing With Fate: A Young Adult Romance Novel

Previously published as Connected by Rori K. Pierce.A high school wallflower, a football star, and a plot twist neither of them saw coming… Bethany Rollins never imagined she’d be caught up in a toxic relationship until the boy she fell in love with turned out to be a gaslighting manipulator. Now, she’s stuck in a situation she sees no way out of, while things continue to spiral out of control. Her only true confidante is a guy online she’s never met. He’s kind, popular, and everything Bethany dreamed the perfect boyfriend would be, but there’s no way someone like him could ever be into a girl like her, especially after finding out all of her darkest secrets. Is there? When their secret identities are accidentally revealed, the solace Bethany once found in their online friendship shatters, and any hope she had of things working out between them disappears in the blink of an eye. Will they be able to salvage their friendship to see it turn into something more, or will the truth of their very different realities be too much for them to reconcile?Playing with Fate is a standalone young adult contemporary romance novel.