
When she returns for her senior year of high school, she learns that Evan Wilke will be her film teacher. In the following days, Maise fondly remembers her evening with Evan and the connection that they shared. They enjoy a wonderful evening at the fair, but she abandons him soon after they have relations. Maise and Evan Wilke meet while sharing the front seat of a roller coaster. At eighteen years of age, she is unable to find care and acceptance from her drug-addicted mother therefore, she searches for older men to have relations with. Maise O’Malley is jaded, cynical and makes no apologies for her behavior. Unteachable is a unique story about two very lonely people. With the name Unteachable, you can probably guess this novel is about a student and teacher, but this novel is so much more than a story about a student/teacher relationship. This debut novel from author Leah Raeder features a romance resulting from a random hookup. Smart, sexy, and provocative, Unteachable is about what happens when a love story goes off-script. When the truth comes to light in a shocking way, they may learn they were just playing parts for each other, too. Together, they’re real and genuine apart, they’re just actors playing their parts for everyone else. Maise and Evan resolve to keep their hands off each other, but the attraction is too much to bear. That someone turns out to be her new film class teacher, Mr. Someone who sees beyond her bravado to the scared but strong girl inside. It can be an unexpected connection with someone who truly understands her.

He’s taught her that a hookup can be something more. But afterward, she can’t get Evan out of her head. Which is exactly how she likes it: no strings.

When Maise meets Evan at a carnival one night, their chemistry is immediate, intense, and short-lived. The summer before senior year, she has plans: get into a great film school, convince her mom to go into rehab, and absolutely do not, under any circumstances, screw up her own future.īut life has a way of throwing her plans into free-fall. Maise O’Malley just turned eighteen, but she’s felt like a grown-up her entire life. An edgy, sexy USA TODAY bestseller about falling for the one person you can’t have.
