KaymayWrites
Emma Parker didn't ask to move to Charleston.
She didn't ask to leave behind her friends, her school, or the life she'd spent seventeen years building. But when her mom announces they're moving halfway across the country, Emma doesn't get a choice.
So she makes herself a promise:
She won't get attached.
Not to Charleston.
Not to the people.
And definitely not to the boy everyone calls JJ.
Jackson Callahan is the kind of boy Emma should stay away from. He's charming, confident, ridiculously easy to like, and somehow knows everyone at Charleston High. Emma can't figure out why everyone seems to love him.
JJ can't figure out why the new girl seems to hate him.
What starts as an awkward first meeting slowly turns into friendship. Late-night drives become long conversations. Beach bonfires become memories. And somewhere between laughing in his passenger seat and watching the sunrise together, Emma realizes she's falling for him.
For the first time in a long time, Charleston starts to feel like home.
But Emma has secrets of her own.
She's been fighting battles no one at school knows about, and she's determined to keep them that way. Meanwhile, her mom's past in Charleston begins coming back to the surface-revealing that their move wasn't as simple as Emma was told.
The closer Emma gets to JJ, the more she realizes that everyone has something they're hiding.
And sometimes the person you never expected to find...
becomes the person you can't imagine losing.