The Boy Whose Reading Never Came

Sadie Okafor got her reading on her seventeenth birthday. It points at Micah Danner, who has been her best friend since the first grade, and who got no reading at all.

In Tamarack Falls the bond tells you who it is, and the whole town finds out at the same time you do. A one-way has a name here, and sixty years of pity attached to it. Everyone already knows Sadie has been pointed at a boy with nothing pointing back.

Micah carries the tables at ten in the morning without being asked and buys the second basket of fries nobody ordered. He has never once said what he wants. The town has quietly decided that if his reading had come, it would have pointed at Georgia Hale on the next farm along.

Sadie has never had an unspoken thought in her life. This is the first one she cannot say out loud.

A closed-door teen romance about being the only one who is sure. Book 2 of Tamarack Falls, after The Boy I Was Never Going to Forgive.