Rebekah Crane Books

From the writer who brought you the Irish romance The Upside of Falling Down comes a new novel about secrets, friendship, reinvention, and unexpected love in the Scottish Highlands.June Merriweather is on the run—from her own life. Her brother is dead, her parents are liars, and her college major is a joke. Apart from her best friend, Matt, June is desperate for reinvention. And a one-way ticket out of Cincinnati to the Scottish Highlands is a good place to start.With a backpack, an urn, and a secret, June begins again. She snags a job at a café and finds lodging at a quaint inn with a quirky cast of housemates. The only problem: the inn’s infuriatingly perceptive (and sexy) owner, Lennox. He’s suspicious of June. After all, no one comes to Scotland in the winter unless they’re running from something. From rocky start to sizzling temptation, June’s new world is exhilarating…and one detour away from disaster.With her past and her future both vying for attention, June can’t begin to picture where her reimagined life is headed next. And falling in love with the last person she expected is only the beginning.

Convention doesn’t carry much weight in Alder Creek. It doesn’t in Amoris Westmore’s family either. Daughter of a massage therapist and a pothead artist, inheritor of her grandmother’s vinyl collection, and blissfully entering her senior year in high school, Amoris never wants to leave her progressive hometown. Why should she? Everything changes when Jamison Rush moves in next door. Jamison was Amoris’s first crush, and their last goodbye still stings. But Jamison stirs more than bittersweet memories. One of the few Black students in Alder Creek, Jamison sees Amoris’s idyllic town through different eyes. He encourages Amoris to look a little closer, too. When Jamison discovers a racist mural at Alder Creek High, Amoris’s worldview is turned upside down.

Despondent after her mother and sister leave their family, Wren Plumley befriends Wilder, a sickly housebound teen who moves in next door, and must confront the reasons behind her mother and sister's desertions.

From the author of The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about coming apart, getting it together--and moving on. It's just a two-hour drive-- Pondering math problems is Esther Ainsworth's obsession. If only life's puzzles required logic. Her stepfather's solution? Avoidance. He's exiled the family to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, to erase a big secret from Esther's past. So much for the truth. Now for the consequences: an empty swimming pool, a water-sucking cactus outside her window, a goldfish rescued from a church festival, and Esther's thirst for something real. Step one: forget about her first love. Step two: make allies. Esther finds them in Jesús from the local coffee bar; a girl named Color who finds beauty in an abandoned video store; Beth, the church choir outcast; and Moss, a boy with alluring possibilities. Step three: confess her secret to those she hopes she can trust. Esther's new friends do more than just listen. They're taking Esther one step further. Together, they hit the road to face Esther's past head-on. It's a journey that will lead her to embrace her own truth--in all its glory, pain, and awesomeness.

When Clementine wakes up in a hospital after being the only survivor in an airplane crash and discovers she cannot remember anything, she runs off with a stranger to avoid dealing with a father she does not recognize and the press coverage of the crash.

For an American woman on an impromptu summertime trip to an Irish island, life changes in a heartbeat in a refreshing romance by the author of June, Reimagined. The last thing Chicagoan Maeve Kaminski expects to inherit from her estranged biological father is a pub. Now thousands of miles from home, Maeve is on a remote Irish island and the new owner of The Moorings. Charming? Yes. Practical? No. The bright side: Maeve is in debt, and off-loading a famous pub for a pretty penny could be the gift she's been waiting for. Briggs Murphy is suffering from a broken heart. Literally. Recently diagnosed with the same condition that killed his father, he's not looking for love. But when Maeve shows up with her color-coordinated datebook and striking blue eyes, he falls hard. Too bad she's off-limits. According to familial legend, they're enemies. And for the sake of the island, they better stay that way. Love was never the plan. But for Briggs and Maeve, it might just save them both. To make it work, they'll have to rewrite history...before it's too late.

Zander ma 16 lat, maniakalnie wyrywa sobie włosy i marzy o tym, żeby wszyscy zostawili ją w spokoju. Najlepiej czuje się, będąc po prostu nigdzie, czyli wewnątrz swojej głowy. Rodzice jednak każą jej opuścić to bezpieczne miejsce i wyjechać na letni ob�z dla zaburzonych nastolatk�w. Do kt�rego ? jej zdaniem ? nie pasuje.Sądzi, że jej wsp�łobozowicze są totalnymi wariatami. I faktycznie, wszyscy mieszkańcy obozu dryfują gdzieś na granicy diagnozy i życiowej katastrofy. Wsp�łlokatorka Zander, Cassie, określa siebie jako maniakalno- depresyjną anorektyczkę z chorobą dwubiegunową. Grover Cleveland (zupełnie jak jeden z prezydent�w USA), słodki, ale niestabilny emocjonalnie chłopak, w k�łko m�wi o swojej przyszłej schizofrenii. I jest jeszcze Bek, uroczy, ale patologiczny kłamca.Z czasem, mimo wszystko, między terapią grupową a zakazanymi nocnymi wypadami zaczynają się tworzyć niezwykłe przyjaźnie. W palącym słońcu stanu Michigan Zander i tr�jka nastolatk�w ujawnia przed sobą swoje dramatyczne tajemnice. Zander czuje niezwykły pociąg do Grovera i nawet zaczyna się zastanawiać, czy ewentualnie, kiedyś, być może mogłaby być szczęśliwa. Ale najpierw musi porzucić nadzieję na to, że kiedykolwiek uda jej się poskładać rozsypane kawałeczki samej siebie?�