Jessica Darling

"Second Helpings continues Megan McCafferty's New York Times bestselling series - now with a new foreword by New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Serle Jessica Darling is in her senior year of high school and things can't seem to get worse: her best friend, Hope, still lives in another state, and the mysterious and oh-so-compelling Marcus Flutie continues to be a distraction she doesn't need. Not to mention her parents won't get off her back...

Jessica is sharing an apartment with three other girls in Brooklyn, and looking for work in publishing, but this week she is mostly contemplating her on-again-off-again relationship with Marcus Flutie, who has proposed to her and given her a week to decide--to decide which of his several personas is real, and whether that is the one she can live with, or needs to live without.

Devasted when her best friend moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, sixteen-year-old Hope has no one to talk to as she struggles with her type-A personality, insomnia, and her mixed-up feelings about Marcus Flutie, the intelligent and mysterious "Dreg" who works his way into her heart