400 pages | Trade Paperback

From Jennifer Niven, the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofAll the Bright Places, comes an unforgettable new novel about a sensitive girl ready to live her bravest lifesex, heartbreak, family dramas, and all.

Before:With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesnt even need to be in lovesex is all shes looking for. Then her dad drops a bombshell: he and Claudes mom are splitting up. Suddenly, Claudes entire world feels like a lie, and the ground under her feet anything but stable.

After:Claudes mom whisks them both away to a remote, mosquito-infested island off the coast of Georgia, a place where the two of them can start the painful process of mending their broken hearts. Its the last place Claude can imagine finding her footing, but then Jeremiah Crew happens. Miah is a local trail guide with a passion for photography, and a past he doesnt like to talk about. Hes brash, enigmatic, and even more infuriatingly, hes the only one who seems to see Claude for who she wants to be. So when Claude decides to sleep with Miah, she tells herself its just sexexactly what she has planned. There isnt enough time to fall in love, especially if it means putting her already broken heart at risk.

Compulsively readable and impossible to forget, Jennifer Nivens luminous new novel is an insightful portrait of a young woman determined to write her own next chaptersex, resilience, mosquito bites, and all.