ethanjedwards
After three years away, eighteen-year-old senior Cora Boone is finally free and returning to her hometown of Stilllight, deep in Southern Appalachia.
Her record runs a mile long, stacked with detentions, suspensions, arrests, and every bad decision she could make before she was sent away. But buried somewhere beneath all that chaos was one person who ever really knew her.
While Cora was locked in the Marrowbend Institute, fellow senior Hollis Greer was quietly diagnosed with a rare seizure disorder. He only told those he needed to, and never let it define him. He learned to hide it, paying close attention to his body and keeping a careful hold on what no one else was meant to see.
Nothing threatens that careful balance like Cora Boone walking back into Stilllight. Old memories surface. Old instincts flare. And this time, the thing he's fighting to control might not be his seizures, but what he's always felt for her.