“The closeness is maddening. You’re so full of the desire to be seen, you must be freaking glowing. I’m here. You try to reach her with mental tricks, with all your powers of concentration, with all your love distilled into a single thought. See me.”
Rob’s ghost is watching Holly, so when he sees his best friend, Jason, trying to get close to her, he isn't happy. This haunting paranormal romance is deftly told from the perspectives of Rob, Holly, and Jason. Can everyone make peace with the past and find the courage to move forward?
Told from the perspectives of a teen killed in a car crash, his best friend, and the girl he left behind,
this is a poignant paranormal romance about making peace with the past, opening your heart to love, and finding the courage to move forward into the light.
Eerie and sweet, haunting and real — a ghost story of love in its many forms: the kind that binds, and the kind that frees. —Laini Taylor, National Book Award finalist forLips Touch: Three Times This ghost story gently delivers growing emotional power as it explores the thoughts of three teens, including the ghost. . . . Poignant and eventually quite moving. --Kirkus Reviews A welcome addition to the shelf of YA books that deal honestly with grief. Without sugarcoating, it achieves a melancholy sweetness that is becoming a hallmark of Davis’s work. --Publishers Weekly This tale is a comfortable read for those who want more than a pink-covered romance or a melodramatic storry of loss, neither cotton-candy light not three-hankie dark. —School Library Journal A truly touching story. –Seventeen.com [Holly's grandfather] is the only living person who can see Rob, and their ensuing conversations about love, life, and death create a poignant connection between a life not quite lived and one in its final momentló!