TY - BOOK AU - Hoover,Colleen TI - Heart bones T2 - Thorndike Press large print romance series SN - 9798885793988 PY - 2023/// CY - Waterville, Maine PB - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company KW - Mothers KW - Death KW - Fiction KW - Fathers and daughters KW - Stepfamilies KW - Summer KW - Neighbors KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Texas KW - Large print books KW - lcgft KW - Domestic fiction KW - Romance fiction N1 - "A novel"--Cover N2 - After a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah's plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan. Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they're both drawn to sad things. Which means they're drawn to each other. Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn't realize is that a rip current is coming, and it's about to drag her heart out to sea ER -