Chapters of Us

Victoria Johnson did everything right. She buried the ghost of a passionate summer fling and locked her sights on her future. Surviving on substitute pay while fighting for her master's degree.

But the past she tried so hard to forget is sitting in the back row of her classroom. Devante Hendrix isn't the vulnerable boy she walked away from. Having survived a lifetime bounced around the foster system, he clawed his way to independence through raw talent and sheer willpower.

Now, on the brink of graduating high school with a full ride and a lucrative brand career, he is a fiercely driven man with only one goal: to build the family he never had. And he has decided that family starts with her.