Elodie Jack, the daughter of the proud owners to the flowershop down the street. She's doing okay for herself, really, emotional baggage is minimal. A hardworker, lover of spring and summer, and an expert on Floriology, the secret language of flowers. She's got a good life, her classmates are nice, the enteral spring that her town is famous for has been going strong and steady, but there is one thing Elodie wants, one thing she knows she'll never have, someone who understands her, one who could give her something as special as a Freesia (lasting friendships)
Quincey Hale is the class clown, the son of two very strict parents, who expect nothing but perfection from their only son. He's thrown it all to the wind and plans to be something more than just the shy kid or the class clown for once. Exceptional soccer player, a secret lover of the stars and space, and probably the biggest fan of music you'll ever meet. But Quincey has a few glaring issues, one: his best friend seems to be sinking into a depression again, two: his parents are tightening the leash as his eighteenth birthday draws ever closer, and finally what exactly is the sweet, mysterious, flower-loving Elodie Jack making him feel?
Desmond Tully has had an...unusual life, not until finding his home two years ago with the adoptive parents he's grown to love, has Des ever stayed in a school for more than half a year. Something happened to him, something he can't remember but can't forget has made him terrified of the other sex, he's never once held a decent conversation with a girl his age. An incredible artist, lover of books and random information, and an honest to god loyal friend. Desmond has been a fighter his whole life, he's got the scars to prove it. He doesn't know when the battle inside him starts to take a turn for the worst, he's going to need all the help he can get.
Cover by the amazing @LNRoberts1
It's 1983 and high school sophomore, Anne Kelly's home life is coming apart at the seams. What's more, her friends are hanging with the popular crowd, and Anne doesn't feel she fits in. She gradually becomes fixated with a shy junior on the swim team named Gavin Maloney, but her friends think he's a total loser.
However, Anne only becomes more interested in Gavin, and she decides to take a prank her friends played on him a step further. She begins writing him letters, not the stupid anonymous notes her friends put in his locker to taunt him, but real letters.
Gavin has lost his mom to cancer and his father has gone missing. He now lives with his grandfather who is in a deteriorating state of Alzheimer's disease. It's a secret that Gavin must keep. Nobody can know or they will separate Gavin from his grandfather and put them both in state run homes.
Gavin's plan is to stay invisible. Once he turns 18, he'll be a legal adult and nobody will be able to separate him from his grandfather. He just has to hold out one more year. But it isn't easy. Everyone needs friends, and now this Anne girl has singled him out.
Part of him aches for human contact, and he's not immune to her quirky sense of humor, but she might be totally insane. She's practically stalking him, and if he befriends her, she might find out about his grandfather and ruin his plan. But what if he just wrote her back?