After a failed suicide attempt, Thomas Hart struggles to rebuild his life -- until he meets Ethan, the popular boy at school, who helps him feel alive again.
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Living in the numb aftermath of his older brother's tragic death, seventeen-year-old Thomas Hart returns home and tries to build a new life for himself after spending six months institutionalized for attempting suicide. He starts seeing a therapist, attending a different high school, and making new friends, but completely abandons his old reputation as a champion swimmer. Which is a pity, because he can't seem to get resident star athlete Ethan Cooper out of his head. With dimples and a kind touch that unravels him, Ethan is everything Thomas can't have right now, can't be -- because there's no going back to the person he was before the accident. But can Thomas become someone new...and someone capable of falling in love?
Cover designed by Morgan Kingsman
[[Word Count: 70,000-80,000 words]]
[2019 WATTYS WINNER | Literary Fiction]
[1st Place Winner, Story Crafters Awards (General/Teen Fiction)]
[1st Place Winner, The Midnight Sun Awards 2019 (Romance)]
[1st Place Winner, The Moonlight Awards (Romance)]
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- 1. Waking Up
- 2. The Crazy Ones
- 3. The Ghost
- 4. Parallel Universes
- 5. Brown Leather Jacket
- 6. The Stare
- 7. Liam
- 8. First Kiss
- 9. Stay
- 10. Emma
- 11. The Way Back
- 12. Jonas
- 13. Let Him In
- 14. Forget Your Mind
- 15. Bloom
- 16. Only Lovers Left Alive
- 17. This. You. Here.
- 18. Marcy
- 19. This (seeming) Endlessness
- 20. A Taste Of Normal
- 21. Worlds Colliding
- 22. Something Other Than Pain
- 23. Her Son
- 24. Reference in the Sky
- 25. Short On Goodness
- 26. The Pain You Choose
- 27. Heartbeats
- Epilogue
- A/N