She’s still everything I want and nothing I should ever have, but if anyone can move the stars, it’s her great bear in the sky.

I’d bent over backward to keep Lake pure, but she’s no longer that girl, and I don’t know if I can stay away anymore. It’s not good for your ankles if you don’t. He set me on the ground gently, like a porcelain statue on a shelf.

I got hot and cold all at once, doing everything in my power not to shiver so I wouldn’t give myself away. His hands were so large, they nearly wrapped all the way around me. But now that she’s gone, would I have made those same choices? Something in the Way(8) By: Jessica Hawkins. I only promised I’d keep enough distance. The decisions I made were to push Lake in the right direction-away from me. Somebody Elses Sky (Something in the Way, 2) A better man would’ve walked away by nowbut I never claimed to be any good. Rolling through stop signs on the drive home, she explained the rush. She had one job onlytake me to and from school. When I close my eyes, I can no longer see her. Gainfully unemployed, my nineteen-year-old sister lived at home, ate Mom and Dad’s food, and had an allowance my dad constantly threatened to cut off. I’d held those words close and challenged fate, but I had lost.Ī part of me is still that sixteen-year-old girl squinting up at Manning, but no matter how far I fall or high I soar, I’ll always be a bird without her bear and nothing without him. If I’d known then what I do now, would I have kept on walking? Manning was older, darker, experienced-and I’d trusted him when he said the story would only ever be about us. NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. It was a hot summer day when I met him on the construction site next to my parents’ house. The highly anticipated conclusion to the Something in the Way series, a forbidden love saga.

Something in the Way by Jessica Hawkins