Two friends fall into a passionate romance, but first they must confront a painful past, or else lose out on the one thing theyve been searching for in this heartrending novel from the author of Come Back to Me and Stay with Me.Emerson Lowe and popular ice-hockey player Jake McCallister have been best friends since third grade but as their friendship starts to morph into something more, a terrible event occurs that heralds the end of innocence for both of them. Within a week, Jakes living on the other side of the country and Emerson is left alone to pick up the pieces of her life in a small town determined to paint her as a liar. Seven years later, Emerson is still living on the beautiful Pacific West island of Bainbridge, helping run her familys business. The last thing she needs is Jake turning up, bringing with him old memories and opening up old wounds. But Jakeeven better looking than Emerson remembersseems determined to revive their friendship no matter how much Emerson tries to push him away. Forced to work alongside him for the summer Emerson cant help but fall for Jake, and soon theyre in the midst of a passionate romance that neither of them wants to end. But both Emerson and Jake know that if theyre to have any kind of future they must first confront the pasta past that most people want to stay buried.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 11th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 16-18 years.

There are 368 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2018 by Simon & Schuster .

Mila Gray is the pseudonym for Sarah Alderson. Having spent most of her life in London, Sarah quit her job in the nonprofit sector in 2009 and took off on an around the world trip with her husband and princess-obsessed daughter on a mission to find a new place to call home. They are currently located somewhere between India, London, Canada, and the US. Sarah is the author of several YA novels, including Out of Control, The Sound, Hunting Lila, and its sequel Losing Lila, plus the paranormal trilogy Fated, Severed, and Shadowed.