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Growing up on Elk Terrace meant growing up with Joey Lynch. He was her best friend, her favourite person to argue with, and the boy she’d spent a lifetime pretending not to love. Their friendship was built on late-night conversations, shameless flirting, and a thousand almosts neither of them were brave enough to turn into something more. Everything changes when she earns a scholarship to Tommen College. Thrown into a world she never expected to belong in, she quickly finds herself surrounded by new friends—Claire, Lizzie, and the rest of the Tommen crowd. Among them is Johnny Kavanagh, the charming rugby star who somehow manages to get under her skin just as easily as Joey always has. Caught between the boy who feels like home and the boy who makes her wonder what else the world has to offer, she soon learns that first love isn’t always your only love… …and sometimes the hardest choice isn’t who you love, but who you can’t bear to lose.