Painless

A first kiss. Falling in love. Going to prom. These are all normal things that most teenagers experience. Except for 17-year-old Luke Hemmings. His life is anything but normal and more difficult than most. Because of the disease that wracks his body, Luke is unable to feel pain. He has congenital insensitivity to pain with anhydrosis--or CIPA for short. One of only a handful of people in the world who suffer from CIPA, Luke can't do the things every teenager does. He might accidentally break a limb and not know it. If he stands too close to a campfire, he could burn his skin and never feel it. He can't tell if he has a fever and his temperature is rising. Abandoned by his parents, Luke now lives with his elderly grandma who is dying. When Luke legal guardian tells him that he needs to move into an assisted living facility as he cannot live alone, Luke is determined to prove him wrong. He creates a bucket list, meets a girl with her own wish list, and then sets out to find his parents. All Luke wants to do is grow old, beat the odds, find love, travel the world, and see something spectacular. And he still wants to find his parents. While he still can