Gracie

Most girls probably don't go around picking up guys at family funerals.
Gracie was seventeen when her grandfather died. Grandpa was the one person in Gracie's life who believed her capable of anything despite her right-sided cerebral palsy. So, when her parents decided to stay with Grandma for the summer, Gracie wasn't sure what to do with herself. She certainly didn't expect to meet Elliott, a family friend who showed up at the funeral with his own grandparents to pay their respects.
Elliott was sweet, funny, and had the prettiest oceanic eyes that Gracie had ever seen. But he was able-bodied. Gracie's one serious relationship had ended in disaster, and she was terrified of trying to trust somebody like Elliott again.
And when she wasn't worried about her increasingly complicated feelings for Elliott, Gracie found herself harboring a decades-old family secret: Grandpa had left her a box of letters exposing a forbidden relationship that threatened to tear Gracie's family apart.
The summer before her senior year certainly wasn't shaping up to what Gracie expected it would be. Was she strong enough to keep Grandpa's secret to herself? And, perhaps more importantly, could she bring herself to trust Elliott, or would her own insecurities cause her to push him away?

Gracie deals with dark themes, including descriptive struggles of mental health. See "Read Inside" for further content warnings.