How to stay alive

Elias Beckett was never supposed to make it to seventeen.

Once warm and full of light, he's now angry, reckless, and unraveling fast-street racing at night, barely speaking in class, and carrying the kind of pain no one sees. Elias races through backstreets at night like he's chasing a crash. Hooks up with strangers like it doesn't mean anything. Lives like he's not planning to last much longer.

Olivia is everything Elias isn't-sunlight in sneakers, loud where he's silent, soft where he's sharp. But she's also barely holding it together, haunted by the same girl, the same night, the same if-onlys.

They've known each other forever-she was his sister's best friend. And when his sister died, something in both of them broke. Olivia hides her grief behind a smile. Elias doesn't bother hiding at all.

And in the first timeline... he doesn't survive.

But when Olivia wakes up sixty-three days before the anniversary of the accident, time gives her another shot. Not to save her best friend-but to save Elias. Because this time, there's a message in her journal: "Save him."

But the closer she gets to Elias, the more she risks falling apart. And the more he lets her in, the more he realizes Olivia isn't as fine as she pretends to be.

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How to Stay Alive is a slow-burn, time-woven love story about losing someone you love, and fighting like hell not to lose someone else. It's about grief, second chances, and the messy, beautiful art of surviving.