Tess Sharpe

Six moments lead us to two girls, one kiss, and three little words that were maybe always true in this gorgeous novel perfect for fans of Nina LaCour and Jenny Han. Penny and Tate have always clashed. Unfortunately, their mothers are lifelong best friends, so the girls' bickering has carried them through playdates, tragedy, and more than one rom-com marathon with the Moms. When Penny's mother decides to become a living donor to Tate's mom, ending her wait for a liver transplant, things go from clashing to cataclysmic. Because in order to help their families recover physically, emotionally, and financially, the Moms combine their households the summer before senior year. So Penny and Tate make a pact: They'll play nice. Be the drama-free daughters their mothers need through this scary and hopeful time. There's only one little hitch in their plan: Penny and Tate keep almost kissing. It's just this confusing thing that keeps happening. You know, from time to time. For basically their entire teenaged existence. They've never talked about it. They've always ignored it in the aftermath. But now they're living across the hall from each other. And some things--like their kisses--can't be almosts forever.

6 Times We Almost Kissed (and One Time We Did)

Julia Rutgers

[ . . . ] for a second I just want to stay there, held and safe with her, because she's never broken under anything I've seen thrown at her. She's the only person I know who I can say that about, and I want to know the secret . . . because I feel like breaking. So badly.

I pull out the pack of cards I brought with me, trying not to look at the clock as I lay them out in seven neat piles. I lose myself in the order of it: descending numbers, alternating colors.

She is forever my contradiction. My downfall.

[ . . . ] it's like I know the shape of those words in the air when she says them.

[ . . . ] we'll forever be these two comets in the sky. The crash would be galaxy-changing, but we're always going to miss each other in a mess of what-ifs.

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