When one of Ian’s boys dares him to get plain-faced Kylie Winship to sleep with him in just three weeks, he thinks it’ll be a breeze. Tall and fine, with honey-colored skin and eyes, Ian is used to getting what he wants from girls. And if he succeeds in playing Kylie, he’ll be down with the most popular crew in his high school. But this girl, whom everyone considers a nobody, is turning out to be more surprising than he ever could have imagined.

Dana Davidson made her fiction debut with Jason and Kyra, a love story that Booklist said “. . . teens won’t be able to stop reading.” Ebony magazine has written that “Dana Davidson speaks to teenagers in a truthful, urban voice. . . .” The winner of the 2001 Newsweek/WDIV-TV Outstanding Teacher Award, Dana teaches high school in Detroit, where she lives with her family.