Introduction: If You Stay (Beautifully Broken #1) 24-year old Pax Tate is an asshole. Seriously. He鈥檚 a tattooed, rock-hard bad-boy with a bad attitude to match. But he鈥檚 got his reasons. His mother died when Pax was seven, leaving a hole in his heart filled with guilt although he doesn鈥檛 understand why. What he does know is that he and his dad are left alone and with more issues than they can count. As Pax grew up, he tried to be the kid his father always wanted; the perfect golden boy, but it didn鈥檛 work. His dad couldn鈥檛 overcome his grief long enough to notice and Pax couldn鈥檛 keep up the impossible perfect fa?ade. So he slipped far, far from it. Now, he uses drugs and women to cope with the ugliness, the black void that he doesn鈥檛 want to deal with. If he pretends that the emptiness isn鈥檛 there, then it isn鈥檛, right? Wrong. And it鈥檚 never more apparent than when he meets Mila. Sweet, beautiful Mila Hill is the fresh air to his hardened frown, the beauty to his ugly heart. He doesn鈥檛 know how to not hurt her, but he quickly realizes that he鈥檚 got to figure it out because he needs her to breathe. When memories of his mother鈥檚 death resurface from where he鈥檚 repressed them for so long, Mila is there to catch him when the guilt starts making sense. Mila is the one鈥?he one who can save him from his broken troubled heart; from his issues, from the emptiness. But only if he can stop being an asshole long enough to allow it. He knows that. And he鈥檚 working on it. But is that enough to make her stay?...