Author's Note

Claire Valentine, AKA Cupid, is North Shore High School's personal matchmaker. She turns unrequited crushes into requited love and first dates into committed relationships. Claire's life is seemingly perfect. She has a mother she actually gets along with, even though she suspects her mother is hiding something from her. She's adored, respected, and has fun with her friends doing the job she loves.

But deep down she has tricked, lied and manipulated to get where she is today, and she has many secrets that, if revealed, would tear her school apart. And despite being a matchmaker, and the self-proclaimed "Queen of Love," she is unable to find love for herself. . . .

Enter Max Carter. He's your typical bad boy, strong, devilishly sexy, and he has a long criminal record and an even longer list of ex-girlfriends. He's the quarterback for the school football team, and popularity swathes him like glue. But, like Claire, Max too has a dark secret. A secret that could land him in prison if he gets caught.

Claire and Max have had a love/hate relationship since the second grade. But when Max asks Claire for help, she's tasked with an impossible job: finding him a serious, committed relationship. But as time goes on, Max realizes that the girl he wants is standing right in front of him, and Claire realizes Max just might be the one for her.

Then chaos erupts. All of Claire's precious secrets are exposed and half the student body, who once adored her, hate her guts. Then, as if things couldn't get worse, her mother's hidden world and Max's secret collide, and Claire ends up kidnapped for ransom. Claire has to fight for her life and freedom, or die trying.

A story about the power of love, and the price of greed. . . .