Description

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick

For fans of Youve Reached Sam and A Heart in a Body in the World this moving and powerful Laura Namey Taylor New York Times bestselling author of A Cuban Girls Guide to Tea and Tomorrow teen novel follows an excouple as they struggle to reunite in the wake of a devastating earthquake

High school sweethearts Mia Clementine and Alfie Thanasis had a plan to escape their town for college in the east Mia would leave her hardcore evangelical home for Sarah Lawrence College and Alfie would have a new place to pursue his three loves baseball poetry and Mia But when Alfie got offered a scholarship to the University of San Francisco the same week the entire town found out about Mias moms affair with their churchs pastor Mias world imploded and she pushed everyone awayincluding Alfie

Five months after the worst summer ever Mia is crashing at her best friends dorm at San Francisco State just a few miles away from the University of San Francisco praying she never runs into the boy whose heart she broke And Alfie is trying to make the most of his freshman year while struggling to reconcile with the abrupt ending of his first love

When Mia and Alfies paths cross for the briefest of moments Mia realizes she never should have let him go and Alfies suppressed memories and feelings boil to the surface But their reunion is cut short when a massive earthquake rocks San Francisco leaving them to stumble desperately across the rubble in search of the ex they still love before the city crumblestaking one or both of them with it