After a decade of dedicated ballet practice, one missed step on a flight of stairs lands Luca in the hospital with a titanium plate screwed into his foot. Without ballet, he loses his friends, his school, and his perfect future.
As Luca settles into his new life, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with the least popular (and nicest) girl in his new school, Amina, and the gorgeous, popular, and (allegedly) straight, Jordan Tanaka-Jones.
With his dancing dreams dead on their feet, Luca has to figure out who he is without ballet. And to do that he'll have to unlearn his prejudices about the school on the "bad" side of town, make friends who aren't always competing against him, and figure out if love is worth being a skeleton in someone else's closet.
"Debut author Madden manages his significant emotional content with admirable aplomb and his plot with verve, offering keen insights into his empathic characters' lives. The result? An altogether lovely book that comes highly recommended."
