It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth.

As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver, and dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt.

Picked from the VBB - Women in Fiction. I hope you enjoy the read :-)

Thank you for sending this book. It looks like an interesting read.

This book is currently traveling along the coast of Norway on the hurtigruten boat. Lucky book (and lucky me!). I will probably read this book next, after I finish my current read.

Started reading today on the beautiful Hurtigruten.

I have mixed feelings about this book, as t started off very promising but then towards the end I really struggled to finish reading it.

I liked how much depth there was in the characters. Almost everyone had a solid background story, which often explained the way they thought or behaved. The main character is a young woman who lost her mother through suicide. So often I could relate her, as this is very close to my own family history.

“It’d be much simpler to accept that she had been unloved. It’s be much simpler to hate her mother for leaving her. But then she remembered her mother offering her seashells at the beach and sitting up with her all night when she was sick, pressing a hand against her hot forehead and kissing her, as if that kiss could detect fever better than a thermometer. Nothing about her mother had ever been simple - her life or death - and her memory wouldn’t either.” - Britt Bennet

One of my best friends is pregnant and currently on bed rest until the end of her pregnancy. So I’m sending her a care package with lots of books, so she has something to do until the baby arrives. Since she’s not on Bookcrossing, this book might not get journalled. But at least it will have continued its journey, going from Sweden to Belgium.

With a title like this, of course it needs to go to someone who will become a mother soon :)