"To die is different than what anyone supposed, and luckier."
-Walt Whitman
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Clementine has incredibly shitty luck. She can't stop stubbing her toes, she has never had a good hair day, and when she took a swig out of the milk jug this morning, it was sour.
Something horrible happened to Clementine her senior year. It was an older guy, who she trusted. It happened in the front seat of his beat up nissan, when she was shit faced, and after she was never the same.
He left her on the side of the road, like a crumpled paper doll. A cabdriver picked her up at two in the morning, and drove her to the hospital. When she got there, the doctor (bless his insensitive heart) told her that she was actually very lucky to be at the hospital that night. If she hadn't, she was told, they might never have discovered the rare, aggressive eye infection which was eroding her vision.
Something really bad happened to Clementine, her senior year. And then she went blind.
Perhaps the last thing that Clementine needs, only a year after the incident, is a convicted felon to hide in her grandma's garage. But Clementine has really shitty luck, and Liam really needs a place to stay.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
*****
Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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