Always and Forever

Melissa Austin and Jory Delaney have been best friends for years. Now, at sixteen, the girls are set to begin their junior year of high school and remain as close as ever. As the two begin their path to the future, Melissa finds her hard work paying off and Princeton begins to feel like something obtainable and beyond just a goal.

While Melissa takes the route of academic pay-off, and finds romance with someone with a similar set of goals, her best friend Jory struggles to shake her party girl image and wonders if university is even for her. And then there's that hopeless crush she has on Melissa's older brother, Michael, which she can't seem to shake--at least there are distractions when it comes to this.

Just as life seems as mundane as ever, obstacles are tossed in the way and Melissa's health takes a devastating turn for the worst. Complications arise in ways neither girl could ever have imagined and what was meant to be the perfect year is less than perfect.

Melissa and Jory need each other now more than ever as they cope with the bitter reality of living and dying; loving and lying.

Life is so very fragile.

A retelling of Lurlene McDaniel's classic YA novels "Too Young To Die" and "Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever". I take no credit for these beauties nor am I making any sort of profit on my spin of things. Do yourself a favor and purchase the original novels ASAP, as they are true classics.