From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a
powerful heartrending contemporary novel about fear first love and the devastating impact of
prejudice. It's 2002 a year after 9 11. It's an extremely turbulent time politically but
especially so for someone like Shirin a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who's tired of being
stereotyped.Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She's tired of the rude
stares the degrading comments-even the physical violence-she endures as a result of her race
her religion and the hijab she wears every day. So she's built up protective walls and refuses
to let anyone close enough to hurt her. Instead she drowns her frustrations in music and
spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother. But then she meets Ocean James. He's the
first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know Shirin. It terrifies her-they
seem to come from two irreconcilable worlds-and Shirin has had her guard up for so long that
she's not sure she'll ever be able to let it down.
