A new family moves in next door. My life is forever changed. This is totally a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real-life persons, places or situations is purely coincidental.

Sadie Williams had everything mapped out. A cheerleading scholarship. Near-perfect grades. A future she could almost touch. Then one night changed everything. After a devastating car crash leaves her a wheelchair user and learning to live with chronic incomplete spinal damage, Sadie returns to college carrying more than physical scars. She is no longer confident in the way she once was. Now she is a target. Protected fiercely by her older brother Mason, a star football player, Sadie tries to survive campus life quietly alongside her two best friends, Amira and Elle. But the cheer squad makes sure she never forgets what she has lost. Led by Sofia Lopez, the ruthless head cheerleader and girlfriend of the college's golden quarterback, the bullying is relentless, cruel, and calculated. Until one prank goes too far. Wyatt is everything Sadie believes she can never have. Popular. Wanted. Untouchable. And very much taken. But one moment changes everything. As lines blur between pity and protection, friendship and longing, Sadie and Wyatt find themselves drawn together in ways neither expected. What begins as quiet conversations and stolen glances becomes something deeper, riskier, and impossible to ignore. Because loving Sadie means standing against the crowd. And loving Wyatt means daring to believe she is still worthy of being chosen.

Dieses Buch ist keine Erzählung über das einfache Überwinden. Es ist kein klassisches Heldenepos, in dem die Wunden am Ende narbenfrei verheilen und der Geist über die Materie triumphiert. Es ist stattdessen eine Reise in die unerbittliche, oft sterile und gnadenlose Realität dessen, was passiert, wenn der menschliche Körper an seine physikalischen Grenzen stößt - und was geschieht, wenn der Geist sich in den Trümmern zurechtfinden muss.

The bass thrummed through my body, a deep, pulsing rhythm that I could feel in my bones. Lights slashed through the darkness, cutting neon streaks of blue and red across the crowd. The air was thick, heat, sweat, alcohol, and something sharper, something electric. I was lost in the music, in the motion, my long legs moving in sync with the pounding beat. My black skirt clung to my body, my red Italian heels making every step a statement.

She's from space and he's from earth. After meeting in an online game she is worried what he will think of her when he finds out she isn't human but he has some worries of his own and their friendship is put to the test when they agree to meet in real life.