Bass Ackwards

“How many stars do you think are up there?” “A million?” “I don’t know. What do you say we sit a while and count them together?” Piper Hooper has never had it easy. Growing up is hard when your family is problematic. The only thing that ever made her feel alive was swimming. It was her refuge, her reference point, her only certainty in a sea of instability. Swimming – and Kirk Jenkin, her best friend, her secret love, the one person who made the stars shine. For Piper, however, swimming is now just a faded dream. As for Kirk – despite his promises, he left Nantucket and never came back. Piper knows the only way she’s ever going to see him again is on the cover of a magazine. She’s so sure of this that when she comes face to face with him, she thinks her mind is playing tricks on her. Kirk Jenkin is bass player in a rock band. He’s successful and famous but when he returns to Nantucket Town, where he spent time as a teenager, it’s like he’s sixteen all over again. Every place, every memory, leads him to one person, the one person he can’t bear thinking about: Piper Hooper. Every thought brings back bittersweet memories of her, the person he loved the most, the person who disappointed him the most. Some feelings, however, lay buried inside us for years, until they come back to life with breath-taking potency. Kirk realizes he’s not ready to let Piper go and, as the memories come flooding back, he knows with a certainty he’s never felt before that he wants Piper back and, this time, he won’t give up on her. —- ISBN: 9798864830116