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Last published Thu, Apr 2, 2015
Seventeen-year-old Shelby Harris’s life is falling apart. Her plan to cling to her best friend and boyfriend dies when her grieving mom moves her three hundred miles from everything and everyone she knows.
Keeping to herself in her new high school isn’t a way to live, but she’s already lost her dad and her friends. Why bother making new connections when life continues to sever them thread by thread? So she throws herself into her studies and work.
Dane, the boy with a locker next to hers, has different plans for her senior year, however. Wanting anything but romance, she agrees to one cup of coffee to get him off her back. When one cup turns into an all night chat session, Shelby realizes she can’t lead him on. After all, she’s still hung up on her boyfriend back home…right?
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