Publishing date is pushed out to December 29th, even though Everybody's Haven is DONE, so I can send out ARCs. Want to read it and review? Here is the synopsis: Haven Alexander is the whole package: co-captain of Cross Country and Track, excelling in her classes, volunteering at church, loving and supporting her neurodiverse older brother, Paul, and being—according to her friend (and sort-of crush) Alice—a babe. Albeit a fresh-faced, basketball shorts and flip flops wearing babe who could carry someone out of a burning building and doesn’t understand other girls. At seventeen she’s never given her parents a moment’s anxiety, except for her stubborn refusal to date the boy of their dreams. And riding the motorcycle of hers. Until unapologetically bold Daisy King, The Derby Queen, befriends Paul, hip checks her way into Haven’s world, and just might be the girl who knocks Haven off the treadmill of her parents’ sky-high expectations and into a life that includes kitchen kisses, confiscated cell phones, detentions, suspensions, and a posse of friends who embrace Paul. Who has his own parental expectations to defy… Can Haven dare to believe she can be loved as-is, defy expectations, redefine success, and not be everybody’s Haven but her own in this third Willamette High novel about community, coming of age, coming out, and coming to terms with being human?
Haven Alexander is the whole package: co-captain of Cross Country and Track, excelling in her classes, volunteering at church, loving and supporting her neurodiverse older brother, Paul, and being—according to her friend (and sort-of crush) Alice—a babe.
Albeit a fresh-faced, basketball shorts and flip flops wearing babe who could carry someone out of a burning building and doesn’t understand other girls.
At seventeen she’s never given her parents a moment’s anxiety, except for her stubborn refusal to date the boy of their dreams. And riding the motorcycle of hers.
Until unapologetically bold Daisy King, The Derby Queen, befriends Paul, hip checks her way into Haven’s world, and just might be the girl who knocks Haven off the treadmill of her parents’ sky-high expectations and into a life that includes kitchen kisses, confiscated cell phones, detentions, suspensions, and a posse of friends who embrace Paul.
Who has his own parental expectations to defy…
Can Haven dare to believe she can be loved as-is, defy expectations, redefine success, and not be everybody’s Haven but her own in this third Willamette High novel about community, coming of age, coming out, and coming to terms with being human?