Heart Bones is a standalone contemporary romance novel.
Description[]
Beyah comes from a life of poverty and neglect; Samson from a family of wealth.
When the two find themselves spending the summer as neighbors, they soon realize money is one of the few things they don't have in common.
Their bond is too intense to ignore, but with only ten weeks separating them from the start of their new lives on opposite ends of the country, Beyah and Samson decide to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling.
What they don't realize is that a rip current is coming and it's about to drag both their hearts out to sea.
Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself.
With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah's plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan.
Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface.
She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they're both drawn to sad things. Which means they're drawn to each other. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn't realize is that a rip current is coming, and it's about to drag her heart out to sea.
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Special Editions[]
- WHSmith Special Edition: Features a special-edition jacket with gold foil lettering.
Quotes[]
"Home still feels like a mythical place I've been searching for my whole life."
"How long do I have to go before I'm happy again?"
"I don't want to hurt him, but he's worth more than this. He wasn't a throwaway to me."
'Don't worry. Hearts don't have bones. They can't actually break.'
'You're the one who said people still drown in the shallow end. I'm drowning, Samson. And you're the one holding me underwater.'
'We didn't receive food stamps because my mother was never sober enough to make her appointments. We also didn't have a car. There are children who grow up never having to worry about food, there are children whose families live off government assistance for various reasons, and then there are children like me. The ones who slip through all the cracks. The ones who learn to do whatever it takes to survive. The kind who grow up not giving a second thought to eating a slice of bread they pulled out of a discarded loaf on the deck of a ferry, because that's normal. That's dinner'.
'It's not that I didn't want to be there. I just.. I didn't think you wanted me there. I just got the impression that you've been avoiding me for the past couple of years. And I don't blame you. I feel like I haven't been a very good father to you.'
'I wish you could have been my mother.'