Upside Down

Lia Riley

Grand Central Publishing, Aug 5, 2014 - Fiction - 384 pages

If you never get lost, you'll never be found...

Twenty-one-year-old Natalia Stolfi is saying good-bye to the past-and turning her life upside down with a trip to the land down under. For the next six months, she'll act like a carefree exchange student, not a girl sinking under the weight of painful memories. Everything is going according to plan until she meets a brooding surfer with hypnotic green eyes and the troubling ability to see straight through her act.

Bran Lockhart is having the worst year on record. After the girl of his dreams turned into a nightmare, he moved back home to Melbourne to piece his life together. Yet no amount of disappointment could blind him to the pretty California girl who gets past all his defenses. He's never wanted anyone the way he wants Talia. But when Bran gets a stark reminder of why he stopped believing in love, he and Talia must decide if what they have is once in a lifetime . . . of if they were meant to live a world apart.

PRAISE FOR UPSIDE DOWN
"Upside Down gave me all the feels. Romantic and poignant, the journey of love and acceptance lingers long after the book is closed." - Jennifer L. Armentrout/J. Lynn # 1 New York Times Bestselling Author.

"Lia Riley turned my emotions Upside Down with this book! Fast paced, electric and sweetly emotional-- I couldn't put it down!" -- Tracy Wolff, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author

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User Review  - LoriBom - LibraryThing

Oh my. I thought this was an excellent story. I really had no idea what to expect when i won this and realized I got a wonderful story of loss, young adult angst, and first loves. Ms Riley's ability ...

About the author

After studying at the University of Montana-Missoula, LIA RILEY scoured the world armed only with a backpack, overconfidence and a terrible sense of direction. When not torturing heroes (because c'mon, who doesn't love a good tortured hero?), Lia herds unruly chickens, camps, beach combs, daydreams about as-of-yet unwritten books, wades through a mile-high TBR pile and schemes yet another trip. She and her family live mostly in Northern California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Upside Down; Off the Map
• Author: Lia Riley
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2014
• ISBN: 1455585718, 9781455585717
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Coming of Age; Fiction / Romance / Contemporary; Fiction / Romance / General; Fiction / Sagas; Fiction / Sea Stories; Fiction / Sports; Fiction / Women