All Alone with You

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Hacks gets a romantic twist in the vein of Jenn Bennett in this simmering (Publishers Weekly) novel about a standoffish teen girl whose loner status gets challenged by a dynamic elderly woman and a perpetually cheerful boy.

Eloise Deane is the worst and doesnt care who knows it. Shes grumpy, prefers to be alone, and is just slogging through senior year with one goal: get accepted to USC and move to California. So when her guidance counselor drops the bombshell that to score a scholarship shell desperately need, her applications require volunteer hours, Eloise is up for the challenge. Until shes paired with LifeCare, a volunteer agency that offers social support to lonely seniors through phone calls and visits. Basically, its a total nightmare for Eloises anxiety.

Eloise realizes shes made a huge mistakeespecially when shes paired with Austin, the fellow volunteer whos the sunshine to her cloudy day. But as Eloise and Austin work together to keep Marianne Landisthe mysterious former frontwoman of the 1970s band the Laundromatscompany, something strange happens. Eloise actuallylikes Marianne and Austin She isnt sure what to do with that, especially when her feelings toward Austin begin to blur into more-than-friends territory.

And when ex-girlfriends, long-buried wounds, and insecurities reappear, Eloise will have a choice to make: go all in with Marianne and Austin or get out before she gets hurt.

Author Bio

Amelia Diane Coombs is the author ofKeep My Heart in San Francisco;Between You, Me, and the Honeybees;Exactly Where You Need to Be; andAll Alone with You. Shes a northern California transplant living in Seattle, Washington, with her spouse and their Siberian cat. When she isnt writing or reading, Amelia spends her time playing video and tabletop games, road-tripping, and hiking the Pacific Northwest.