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The Dead Boy's Guide To Second Chances

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Reads 139,897
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Parts 37
Time 7h 42m

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What do you do when you're given a second chance at life?

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Age 15: Oliver Sallow is shipped to the tiny town of Blissby to live with a new foster family. Finn O'Connell is captain of the football team. Neither of them knows much about the other except for one thing: they have absolutely nothing in common.

Age 17: Oliver finds Finn having a panic attack in the library bathroom. They still have nothing in common. They fall in love all the same.

Age 18: Oliver breaks up with Finn.

Age 18.5: Oliver dies in a motorcycle accident. Six minutes and twenty-four seconds later, he wakes up again to be offered a deal: he will get to spend another twelve months as a guardian angel, neither fully dead nor completely alive. The catch: the person he is assigned to help is none other than Finn O'Connell.

Age 19: Two boys, fourteen months of history, and a promise: this time, there can be no falling back in love.

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Sun Kissed ✓ cover

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