Description Critically-acclaimed author Leah Thomas blends a small-town setting with the secrets of a long-ago crime, in a compelling novel about breaking free from the past.
Morris YA Debut Award finalist, Because You\'ll Never Meet Me..
Leah lives in San Diego, California and is the author of When Light Left Us, Nowhere Near You, and the William C.
When she\'s not huddled in cafes, she\'s usually at home pricking her fingers in service of cosplay.
Can they break free from a legacy of inherited lies and chart their own paths forward?About the Author Leah Thomas frequently loses battles of wits against her students and her stories.
And when the accepted version of the truth is questioned, Kalyn and Gus are caught in the center of a national uproar.
Until their families\' pasts emerge.
When Gus meets Kalyn, her frankness is refreshing, and they form a deep friendship.
Gus just wants to be known as himself.
A Samsboro native, he\'s either known as the "disabled kid" because of his cerebral palsy, or as the kid whose dad was murdered.
Gus Peake has never had the luxury of redefining himself. or face the lingering anger of Samsboro\'s citizens, who refuse to forget the crime. . .
Forced to return to town, Kalyn must attend school under a pseudonym .
In Samsboro, Kentucky, Kalyn Spence\'s name is inseparable from the brutal murder her father committed when he was a teenager.
Description Critically-acclaimed author Leah Thomas blends a small-town setting with the secrets of a long-ago crime, in a compelling novel about breaking free from the past
