Tamara Ireland Stone

Next-door neighbors and ex-best friends Hannah and Emory haven't spoken in months. Not since the fight-the one where they said things they couldn't take back. Now, Emory is fine-tuning her UCLA performing arts application and trying to make the most of the months she has left with her boyfriend, Luke, before they head off to separate colleges. Meanwhile, Hannah's strong faith is shaken when her family's financial problems come to light, and she finds herself turning to unexpected places-and people-for answers to the difficult questions she's suddenly facing. No matter how much Hannah and Emory desperately want to bridge the thirty-six steps between their bedroom windows, they can't. Not anymore. Until their paths cross unexpectedly when, one night, Hannah finds Luke doubled over in his car outside her house. In the aftermath of the accident, all three struggle to understand what happened in their own ways. But when a devastating secret about Hannah and Emory's argument ultimately comes to light, they must all reexamine the things they hold true. In alternating chapters, a skeptic and a believer piece together the story of their complex relationship with help from the boy caught somewhere in the middle. New York Times best-selling author Tamara Ireland Stone deftly crafts a moving portrait of faith, love, and friendship.

Little Do We Know

Lulu Evensen

"So, you're saying you want to break up now, because it's only going to get harder to break up later?

"I think the world would be a better place if people stopped every once in a while and questioned everything they thought they knew."

I was a sheep. But I didn't want to be one anymore

I was the blue one. I'd always been the blue one. The calm, the ocean, the sky, the color of stillness. 

Back in the street, I'd pushed her away and said I didn't need her, and she listened to me? The Hannah I'd known all my life never would have left me alone.

It was his way, to do something kind like that and never say a word about it. It made me second-guess how I'd been treating him lately

Please. I can't stand fighting with you anymore.

The only place I wanted to be was in the quiet theater, pretending to be Emily Webb, escaping into her world and blocking out mine.

I couldn't remember a single time in my life I'd done something so totally wrong, something so completely selfish, just because I wanted to. It felt..freeing.

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