A heartbreaking debut YA romance featuring a neuroatypical girl with a tragic history and the chronically ill boy trying to break the vault encasing her heart.
Alvie Fitz doesn\'t fit in, and she doesn\'t care.
But if she can find the strength to face the enemy inside her, maybe she\'ll have a chance at happiness after all..
But Alvie remembers what happened to the last person she truly cared about.
Her past stalks her with every step, and it has sharp teeth.
Without even meaning to, she finds herself getting close to him.
Humans are overrated anyway.
Then she meets Stanley, a boy who might be even stranger than she is--a boy who walks with a cane, who turns up every day with a new injury, whose body seems as fragile as glass.
She can bide her time with him until her emancipation.
But if she fails, she\'ll become a ward of the state and be sent back to the group home.
All she wants is to be left alone to spend time with her friend, Chance, the one-winged hawk at the zoo where she works.
Free.
It sounds so easy.
If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps, she\'ll be legally emancipated.
Pretend to be normal.
Adjust, adapt.
She\'s spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers.
A heartbreaking debut YA romance featuring a neuroatypical girl with a tragic history and the chronically ill boy trying to break the vault encasing her heart.
Alvie Fitz doesn\'t fit in, and she doesn\'t care
