EMMIE DAWSON

Seventeen-year-old Emmie Dawson lives on Main Street in northeastern Ohio, thirty-two minutes from the Pennsylvania border, and four hours from Cleveland, as any true Ohioan, would explain.
Her father is a Liberal Arts teacher at the local college, while her mother runs the only flower shop in town that specializes in weddings. Of which there are many.
They live next to Bradley Barnes, the son of her parent's best friends and assumed soulmate for Emmie.
Everything seems to be planned out for her.
Her career, her love life.
All of it.
It should be as easy as breathing, but secretly she wants more.
Much more.
And then he shows up and shatters everything.
His eyes are like fire. His touch like a flame.
His words sink deep into her and settle there, refusing to let her go.
But is his arrival a blessing or a curse?

NOX VAN DOREN

Seventeen-year-old Nox Van Doren lives in Pennsylvania with his dad and stepmother, who is now pregnant with an unwelcome sibling.
Nox has been in trouble on and off his whole life. Lashing out. Spending time in therapy. Desperately trying to get his emotions and impulses under control.
His mother committed suicide when he was seven and he's never fully recovered from the loss. She left nothing but a scrapbook full of pictures and broken poetry that he treasures above all other things.
He's fearful that her fate is his own.
But then he sees Emmie.
More than that. He touches her.
He feels something shift deep inside as a small gasp escapes her glossed lips.
And everything changes.
But is she enough to save him?