Beyah faces a summer of cute boys, seemingly casual romance, and most importantly, a newfound relationship with her father and her step family. After a life of hardship with her mother in the poverty stricken central U.S. Facing a new life of luxury at her step mother’s vacation home in Texas, Beyah is essentially forced to confront her traumas and open her heart. Hoover creates such a believable summer romance and struggle with past hardships that the reader must ask themselves: do we really have heart bones, and is it possible for them to break?

PSA- There are some potentially trigger scenes