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With a stunning body and face, Toi McKnight is the envy of her peers. But her perfect life of fashion, parties, and boyfriends was bought at a price. Now she's a seventeen-year-old mother of a baby boy, and every day is a struggle. Between bills, responsibilities, and trying to prove she can be more than just a teenage mother, Toi knows she has to be careful around the boy who's been on her mind. The perfect man—six-foot-two, with a booming voice—can't date her. But as soon as Toi tries to break up with him, she falls harder for him. And the more she falls for him, the more trouble she finds herself in with her son's father returning and the drama surrounding her life. Will Toi be able to keep her boyfriend and her son, or will the heartbreak express take her heart out of her body?
First publish date: 2008
Genre: Romance/Contemporary Romance
Authors: Ni-Ni Simone
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