The Other Half by Kristyn Landau

He’s a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks. She’s a sheltered good girl from a prominent family. They shouldn’t have anything in common with each other, right?

Oliver-
My whole life I’ve been told that I’m white trash. At some point I figured I might as well accept it. I’ll never escape the small, Appalachian town that I was born into. I do my best to numb the monotony of my existence with a hefty cocktail of drugs and alcohol. But then I met her, and she made me believe maybe I could be destined for something greater than this. I know I don’t deserve her, but I can’t stop imagining how perfect we’d be together if it weren’t for the fact that we come from complete opposite worlds.

Oakley-
My whole life has been spent in private academies, country clubs, and gated communities. Despite that, my only goal is to get away from my family’s toxic lifestyle and leave this small town behind. When I transferred to the local public school I assumed it’d be easy to skate through my senior year without any drama. Then I met him, and now my plans have been turned upside down. He’s proved to me that everything I was raised to believe was a lie. Now I have to choose between the happiness I’ve found with him, and the plan that my parents made for me before I was old enough to form one of my own.