author's note

Hadley Linderman isn't all too fazed by her mother leaving her and her dad. (For a traveling vacuum salesman, no less.) But as she adjusts to her new life in Potaskaukton, Wisconsin, she discovers that the boring summer before college she had expected might just be anything but, thanks to one Athens Blackmore.

Athens, Hadley's semi-manic dream girl, shows her just how to separate yourself from your worries, an art Hadley thought she had already perfected. But as the summer wears on, she wonders just how well this overly simplified form of existence actually suits her--and just how good is Athens Blackmore for her anyway?