Tallie’s life sometimes feels like one long missed connection. She never knew her mom, who died the day Tallie was born. And seven months ago, Tallie spent five magical hours with Thomas, a boy who felt like her soulmate, only for them to get separated. Life spins on, but she knows there’s an unfinished love story out there, waiting for her.
Now Tallie’s facing something even bigger: the same heart condition that killed her mom. In forty-nine days, she’ll have the surgery that could save her—or end her story forever. Determined to live before she dies, Tallie decides to track down Thomas. She finds his phone number and sends a text . . . but the wrong boy replies.
Owen is sarcastic, witty, and complicated, and nothing like the sunny, cheerful boy she thought she wanted. But he offers to help her search. And the more time they spend together, the more Tallie wonders if the connection she’s been chasing has been right in front of her all along.
From the bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star comes a once-in-a-lifetime romance about the magic of a perfect almost and the miracle of an accidental always.
Author
Nicola Yoon
NICOLA YOON is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Instructions for Dancing; Everything, Everything; and The Sun Is Also a Star, and is a coauthor of Blackout. She is a National Book Award finalist, a Michael L. Printz Award recipient, a Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe New Talent Award winner and the first Black woman to hit #1 on the New York Times Young Adult best-seller list. Two of her novels have been made into major motion pictures. She’s also the copublisher of Joy Revolution, a Random House young adult imprint dedicated to love stories starring people of color. She grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn, New York, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the novelist David Yoon, and their daughter.
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