Zoë is thirteen.
She doesn't have many friends, but she is wise beyond her years.
She longs to act, and she joins the school drama group where she meets a boy.
Adrian is sixteen.
He is studying for his Leaving Cert next year- an aspiring musician.
Cool, confident, popular, he is everything that Zoë is not.
However, that doesn't stop them from falling hopelessly in love through the music, choreography and script of "Dirty Dancing", the musical the drama group is performing, the musical in which they have been cast opposite each other in the leading roles of the show.
The only problem that seems to constantly arise? The age gap. The way their peers see it, the way they themselves view it, and whether or not it will be the demise of their budding romance.
This is a book about AGE.
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
*****
It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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