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Everyone has always said there was something wrong with Shauna Shipman's little sister.
Maybe it started when she was six years old and stopped speaking for an entire year. Maybe it was the way she never seemed to fit anywhere, no matter how hard she tried. Or maybe it was because everyone else made being normal look so easy.
By sixteen, she's perfected the act.
She has good grades, a boyfriend, friends, and a smile that never slips. She pushes down the panic, the sadness, and the feeling that she's falling apart, praying nobody notices.
Then she makes the mistake of falling in love with Natalie Scatorccio.
Natalie is everything she's not-reckless, angry, honest. And no matter how many times she swears she'll stop chasing her, she keeps coming back. One confession turns into a kiss. One kiss turns into heartbreak. And no matter what happens between them, Natalie keeps telling her the same thing:
They will never be anything.
As her world begins to unravel-a cheating boyfriend, a stay in a psychiatric hospital, friends who don't know what to say, and a sister who feels invisible beneath the weight of her problems-she finds herself slipping back into the silence she thought she'd escaped years ago.
But when the Yellowjackets' plane falls from the sky, surviving becomes more important than secrets.
Stranded in the wilderness with the people she loves and the girl she can't let go of, she's forced to confront a terrifying question:
What if everyone was right?
What if there really is something wrong with her?
And slowly she starts to believe something is.