The Libby Garrett Intervention (Science Squad)
by Kelly Oram
Release Date: 10/24/15
Bluefields Publishing
Summary from Goodreads:
Libby Garrett is addicted to Owen Jackson's hot lovin'. But the sexy, popular college basketball player doesn't appreciate all of Libby's awesomeness. He refuses to be exclusive or even admit to people that they're dating. The relationship is ruining Libby and she's the only one who can't see it.
When Libby's behavior spirals completely out of control, her best friend Avery Shaw and the rest of the Science Squad stage an intervention hoping to cure Libby of her harmful Owen addiction. They put her through her very own Twelve Step program-Owen's Anonymous-and recruit the help of a sexy, broody, hard as nails coffee man to be her official sponsor...
Adam Koepp has watched Libby Garrett for years. How could he not notice the sassy girl with the purple skateboard and helmet plastered with cat stickers? But in all the years he's crushed on her, Libby has failed to take notice of him. Why would she when he was just a nobody high school drop out who served her apple cider several times a week? Especially when she was hooking up with a guy like Owen Jackson-a guy with a college scholarship and more abs than Kyle Hamilton.
Adam finally gets the chance to meet Libby when his co-worker Avery Shaw recruits him to take Libby on the journey of a lifetime. With his ability to play Bad Cop and his experience with the Twelve Step program he's the perfect candidate to be Libby's sponsor. But will he be able to keep his personal feelings out of the matter and really help her the way she needs? And will Libby hate him when he forces her to take an honest look at herself?
This follow-up companion novel to The Avery Shaw Experiment can be read as a stand alone. (But where's the fun in that?) ;)
When Libby's behavior spirals completely out of control, her best friend Avery Shaw and the rest of the Science Squad stage an intervention hoping to cure Libby of her harmful Owen addiction. They put her through her very own Twelve Step program-Owen's Anonymous-and recruit the help of a sexy, broody, hard as nails coffee man to be her official sponsor...
Adam Koepp has watched Libby Garrett for years. How could he not notice the sassy girl with the purple skateboard and helmet plastered with cat stickers? But in all the years he's crushed on her, Libby has failed to take notice of him. Why would she when he was just a nobody high school drop out who served her apple cider several times a week? Especially when she was hooking up with a guy like Owen Jackson-a guy with a college scholarship and more abs than Kyle Hamilton.
Adam finally gets the chance to meet Libby when his co-worker Avery Shaw recruits him to take Libby on the journey of a lifetime. With his ability to play Bad Cop and his experience with the Twelve Step program he's the perfect candidate to be Libby's sponsor. But will he be able to keep his personal feelings out of the matter and really help her the way she needs? And will Libby hate him when he forces her to take an honest look at herself?
This follow-up companion novel to The Avery Shaw Experiment can be read as a stand alone. (But where's the fun in that?) ;)
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Excerpt:
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Libby
“He’s
got some faults but nobody’s perfect.”
“Some faults?” Adam rubbed his head as if
it hurt. “Libby, he makes you miserable. I saw you the other morning in Jo’s
when he insulted you. You looked like you were about to cry. You shouldn’t be
with someone who’s capable of treating you like that. You shouldn’t want to be.”
He made
it sound so black and white. But it wasn’t that simple. Nothing in life was
that easy. “Of course you don’t get it. People like you never get it.” The bitterness in my voice couldn’t be helped.
“What do
you mean people like me?”
“Good
looking, confident people who don’t have any trouble getting a date.”
Adam
blinked. “You think that’s me?”
Adam’s
surprise was confusing. Judging by the way he got all up in my personal space
last night, he knew the effect he could have on the female of the species. “I
have eyes, Coffee Man, and they don’t exactly hurt when I look at you.”
Adam
didn’t say anything to this. I couldn’t read the look on his face, but it
almost seemed like I’d offended him somehow. He turned his attention out the
window to the mountains that had swallowed us up when we entered Provo Canyon.
“Avery
doesn’t get it either,” I said, needing to fill the silence. “She’s too
optimistic. I mean, look at her and Grayson. The girl is practically
Cinderella. She was the nerd girl who won the perfect prince. Grayson is nice,
funny, gorgeous, and faithful. It’s ridiculous how much he loves her. Plus,
Avery isn’t exactly unattractive. Yeah, she was a geek, but she was one of
those movie geeks—invisible until she took off her glasses and shook out her
hair then suddenly all the guys wanted her.”
“Don’t
get me wrong,” I said when Adam cast me a curious glance. “I love Avery and I’m
happy for her—she certainly deserves Grayson—but now her perception of reality
is totally skewed. She thinks everyone has a fairytale ending coming to them.
She doesn’t understand that most of us won’t be so lucky. Especially not
someone like me.”
Adam
kept his gaze on the window and let out a breath. “Someone like you?”
“Yeah,
someone like me. Fat girls don’t exactly get a lot of love.”
He
pulled his eyes away from the view to glare at me for that one. I wasn’t sure
what his problem was. It’s not like my weight was a secret.
“Maybe
I’m not three hundred pounds, but I’m definitely pushing it when I use the word
chubby. In high school that equates to being the fat girl, and before you ask,
I can’t just lose the weight. I have hypothyroidism. I was diagnosed when I was
eleven because I became borderline diabetic. I’ve been on a strict diet and
exercise program ever since so that I don’t develop more serious health
problems. I’m actually in decent shape cardiovascularly speaking; I just can’t
get rid of all the weight. This is as good as I will ever get.”
Adam
pulled his eyes away from the window and shifted his entire body so that he was
facing me. “You don’t think you’ll ever find someone that loves you because
you’ll never be thin?”
I
scoffed. “This is real life, not Hairspray.
There is no Link Larkin out there waiting for me. Don’t even try to tell me
that there is. You know there’s not. It’s a miracle Owen even gives me the time
of day.”
Kelly Oram wrote her first novel at age fifteen-a fan fiction about her favorite music group, The Backstreet Boys, for which family and friends still tease her. She's obsessed with reading, talks way too much, and loves to eat frosting by the spoonful. She lives outside of Phoenix, Arizona with her husband and four children.
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