ARC Book
JESSIE
Jessie Harris doesn’t remember her father. She remembers the silence around him. His heart. Too young. These things happen. That is the story her mother has given her for sixteen years, and Jessie has learned not to ask for more. Then, three days after graduation, a routine physical changes everything. Jessie carries the same inherited heart condition that killed her father at twenty-six. Suddenly the future everyone has planned for her no longer feels certain. The full scholarship waiting for her signature. College in the fall. Eli. The safe life she has been told she is lucky to have. And her mother knew. Now Jessie has one summer to uncover what really happened to the father she never got to know, and why her family buried the truth with him. But every answer pulls apart another piece of the life she thought belonged to her, and the deeper she digs, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between being careful and being afraid. Because no doctor can tell Jessie what comes next. She could have decades. She could have far less. And for the first time in her life, Jessie is asking a question no one else can answer for her: If you don’t know how much time you have, how much of it can you afford to spend living someone else’s life? This summer, Jessie Harris is done waiting for permission. To know the truth. To make the wrong choice. To fall in love. To leave. To stay. To live. Whatever comes next, she wants it to be hers.
