Deep Fried Fickle (Paperback) by Lindsey Gainey

Deep Fried Fickle is the story of Chloe Addison, a brassy tomboy that is battered and fried in an extra layer of fickleness. A fact contributed to her capricious mother's teachings.After high school, Chloe boarded a one-way flight to Los Angeles leaving her rural hometown of Bay Ridge, SC with the vow to never step foot there again. Nine years later Chloe has kept her promise and constructed a picturesque life. The twenty-seven year old has a prominent career at a sports agency, an apartment all her own, and a relationship that has surprisingly lasted over 6 months. That is until her distant shelter is threatened with the request of her presence at a memorial back home.In a nostalgic drunken moment, Chloe boards the vessel of her journal written senior year of high school. There she is reacquainted with her childhood sweetheart, Tyler Jackson, best friend Caleb Grover, and new student Jace Hankley; who causes her already fickle mind to become even pricklier. With each turn of the page, she maneuvers the grey areas of friendship, love and honesty. The log of her history drags her down a jagged path of closure and reveals her true motives for leaving.Will Chloe find the courage to surrender her past, or allow her transgressions to trample her life?