Only You

by Scott Burr

David has been thinking about Gillian ever since they broke up, ever since they both graduated from college and moved to opposite sides of the country three years earlier, so when she shows up out of the blue he's more than a little thrown. This is no sentimental reunion, Gillian's younger brother, Danny, is missing, and Gillian needs David's help to find him. The journey they take—to a small town upstate, a small town reputed to have miraculous healing properties—seems to David like the perfect opportunity to redress past mistakes and get things back on track—to get back to the life he should be living and should have been living all along. But what is Gillian really after? And isn't everything in the town just a bit too perfect, everyone in the town just a bit too nice? David can't put his finger on it, but something is definitely off about this whole situation, and no one seems willing to give him a straight answer—least of all Gillian. With the town's annual harvest festival in full swing and its fiery climax looming, David must uncover the truth before it's too late. Only You is a novel about memory and regret, piety and addiction, selfishness and sacrifice, and about what it means to love someone at any cost.

270 pages, Paperback

Published July 21, 2022

About the author

SCOTT BURR is a graduate of the creative writing program at The Colorado College, where he won the Ebey Prize for novella-length fiction and was a finalist for the Reville Prize in short fiction. He is the author of the novels Bummed Out City, which was one of Library Journal's top read books of 2015, and We Will Rid the World of You, the essay collection Superhero Simplified: Collected, Selected, Revised and Expanded, and the training manuals Suspend Your Disbelief: How to Build and Build Strength With the World's Most Rugged Suspension Training Device, and Get a Grip: A Practical Primer on Grip Strength and Endurance Training... and More. His short fiction and novel excerpts have appeared in Mildred, Metonym, The Mayo Review, and elsewhere. His non-fiction work has appeared in Climbing and Urban Climber magazines. He lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio.