The first novel in a brand-new series--from New York Times and USA
TODAY bestselling author Abbi Glines--about a small Southern town
filled with cute boys in pickup trucks, Friday night football games, and
crazy parties that stir up some major drama.
To everyone who knows him, West Ashby has always been that guy: the
cocky, popular, way-too-handsome-for-his-own-good football god who led
Lawton High to the state championships. But while West may be Big Man on
Campus on the outside, on the inside he's battling the grief that comes
with watching his father slowly die of cancer.
Two years ago, Maggie Carleton's life fell apart when her father
murdered her mother. And after she told the police what happened, she
stopped speaking and hasn't spoken since. Even the move to Lawton,
Alabama, couldn't draw Maggie back out. So she stayed quiet, keeping her
sorrow and her fractured heart hidden away.
As West's pain becomes too much to handle, he knows he needs to talk to
someone about his father--so in the dark shadows of a post-game party,
he opens up to the one girl who he knows won't tell anyone else.
West expected that talking about his dad would bring some relief, or at
least a flood of emotions he couldn't control. But he never expected the
quiet new girl to reply, to reveal a pain even deeper than his own--or
for them to form a connection so strong that he couldn't ever let her
go...