Long Way Home
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Last published Thu, Apr 30, 2015
Seventeen-year-old Riley Vega has spent her entire life in Boston, so when she learns she’ll be picking up and moving to her mother’s childhood home of Carver, Kansas, she is less than thrilled. In fact, she is downright furious. Riley’s only visited Carver a handful of times. She barely knows her family that lives there and she has no desire to spend her senior year among the backwards residents of Carver.
Reluctantly though, her views begin to change when she meets William Carter. William is popular and gorgeous and Riley’s never seen brown eyes quite like his before.
While Riley couldn’t be happier, she knows Theo, her best friend in Carver, isn’t sure of her new relationship with William. She soon finds a balance between William and her friends though and life in Carver doesn’t seem so bad after all, even if her relationship with her mother is rocky at best.
Just when Riley thinks she might be happy in Carver, a single decision changes it all, leaving her to find out who she really is and who matters most in her life before she loses everything.
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