From #1 NYT bestselling author Ellen Hopkins comes a new heartbreaking young adult novel in verse about twins separated in the foster care system and the different paths their lives take.
Seventeen-year-old twins Storm and Lake have spent the last five years moving from foster family to foster family sometimes together, sometimes not.
After the last time Storm is separated from his sister Lake, Storm bounces between juvie and even more foster families. But his senior year of high school has left him almost hopeful. His newest foster dad is kind and he has a girlfriend who is the only other human besides Lake that he thinks he can trust. But when his girlfriend is sexually assaulted, it pushes him over the edge. Storm retaliates against the perpetrator, and it lands him in lockup once again.
Lake, like Storm, has found her own happiness during senior year falling in love with her fellow foster, Parker. Life with Parker is never boring, but Parker has her own scars. At times she’s withdrawn, a shell of herself, and others she reacts unpredictably and in ways that could hurt them both. Parker convinces Lake they should run away, but life without money, shelter, or ID proves nearly impossible, putting their lives in danger.
Both Storm and Lake are in desperate need for a last chance for someone to see them, hear them, and to take a chance on them and their dreams. But as they approach their eighteenth birthday and aging out of the system, their time is quickly running out.
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Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of fourteen young adult novels, two middle grade novels, and four novels for adult readers. Her fifteenth YA novel, SYNC, will publish 8/27/24. She has been called the bestselling living poet in the country by Media Bistro.
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