A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti meets Amber Smith's
The Way I Used to Be in this young adult mystery following a teen
searching for the truth behind the deadly car crash that claimed the
lives of her twin sister and the high school football coach.
What happens to the twin left behind?
Scottie O'Doul isn't looking forward to starting her senior year. Last
May, her identical twin sister, Cait, died in a car crash involving the
school's beloved football coach. There's been no official report on the
accident yet, but before she died, Cait told Scottie a disturbing
secret. When Scottie reveals this secret, half the town turns against
her, certain that Scottie is lying to protect her sister and that Cait
deliberately lost control of the car.
Scottie knows her twin would never take her own life, or someone else's,
but how can she prove it? As she faces bullying and hostility at school,
she starts to wonder if what Cait said was even true. Turning to running
to break through her grief, Scottie finds a new world and a new sense of
self outside her twinness. She also reconnects with her old boyfriend,
who had a terrible accident of his own the same day Cait died. Could
there be a connection?
As she runs mile after mile, Scottie keeps trying to fit the jigsaw
pieces together and find the true picture of what happened to Cait and
what was really going on at school before the crash.
