We Lost the Summer

Harper Moore is her own worst enemy - she has a scholarship to escape Gnaw Bone and a vague idea of what comes next, and somehow, with her burning desire for freedom, that still isn't enough to get her out the door.

Gnaw Bone is the kind of small town nobody leaves. It's a place where Myrtle from across the street knows your business before you do, your dad barely looks up from his recliner, and the same faces show up at every bonfire until the summer you finally stop showing up altogether. ...