Seventeen-year-old Lennie doesn't know how to be Lennie anymore.
When her dazzling older sister, Bailey, dies suddenly of an arrhythmia while rehearsing Shakespeare's Juliet, Lennie doesn't know how to live without her. Lennie has always been the bookworm, a geeky clarinetist, and secret poet. She has always lived in her sister’s shadow.
As numbness cloaks her, Lennie withdraws from
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her music, friends, and family. The only way shecan keep Bailey close is by writing poems about her sister's life on everything—take-out cups, shoes, trees, scrapes of paper she pins into her blouse.
Just when she thinks that she won't ever be able to live her life on her own, Lennie meets Joe, a transfer student from Paris, who is a brilliant musician with a megawatt smile. She also is drawn to Toby, Bailey's boyfriend. They find a
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