Rachael Lippincott, coauthor of #1 New York Times bestseller Five
Feet Apart, weaves a "breezy...truly charming" (Kirkus Reviews) love
story about learning who you are, and who you love, when the person
you've always shared yourself with is gone.
Emily and her mom were always lucky. But Emily's mom's luck ran out
three years ago when she succumbed to cancer, and nothing has felt right
for Emily since.
Now, the summer before her senior year, things are getting worse. Not
only has Emily wrecked things with her boyfriend Matt, who her mom
adored, but her dad is selling the house she grew up in and giving her
mom's belongings away. Soon, she'll have no connections left to Mom but
her lucky quarter. And with her best friend away for the summer and her
other friends taking her ex's side, the only person she has to talk to
about it is Blake, the swoony new girl she barely knows.
But that's when Emily finds the list--her mom's senior year summer
bucket list--buried in a box in the back of her closet. When Blake
suggests that Emily take it on as a challenge, the pair set off on a
journey to tick each box and help Emily face her fears before everything
changes. As they go further down the list, Emily finally begins to feel
close to her mom again, but her bond with Blake starts to deepen, too,
into something she wasn't expecting. Suddenly Emily must face another
fear: accepting the secret part of herself she never got a chance to
share with the person who knew her best.