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A bighearted debut novel about queer yearning, indie musicians, and bushwacking a thorny path back to your first love Jamie is bad at endings, which is why she's stuck at a dead-end Baltimore newspaper job, continuing to have break-up sex with her first-ever hetero partner, and haunted by the...

Overcome with guilt and unable to cope with the loss of her beloved family, she has long since buried eight-year old Aubrey along with them and transformed herself into Raven Miller. Now with jet-black hair, multiple sets of eccentric contact lenses, and several facial piercings, she's veiled herself in complete darkness as a form of protection for herself, as well as others. As she enters her first year of college, her goal is simple: earn a degree with the least amount of social interaction as possible.

There’s coming of age, and then there’s coming of age. Eirene has been there, done that, and now wants nothing more than to live a reclusive life with books as companions. The only person she hasn’t left behind is her cousin and best friend, Zoe. When she meets Hoyt, however, a man who knows how to listen quietly, Eirene finds herself questioning her decision. But will the truth about her renowned, but callow, rite of passage give Hoyt misgivings about getting further involved in Eirene’s life?