Almost Sorry

Naomi Miller didn't move to Ashford Bay to fall in love. She moved to get away from the last time she did.

A second-year transfer with a guarded heart and a sketchbook full of things she'd rather forget, Naomi just wants to keep her head down, survive Professor Jacobs' painting studio, and leave her past exactly where she left it. That plan lasts about as long as it takes her new neighbour to smile at her like he already knows how her story ends.

Trent is charming without trying, impossible to avoid, and, infuriatingly, better at reading her than anyone has a right to be. The more Naomi tries to keep her distance, the more he seems determined to close it. And somewhere between shared playlists, a project that keeps forcing her to paint the shape of everything she's lost, and a best friend's visit that's supposed to be simple, Naomi starts to let him in.

She doesn't know he's already carrying more of her past than he's told her.

She doesn't know he isn't the only one.

Almost Sorry is a story about what it costs to be truly known by someone and what happens when the person you're falling for turns out to be keeping the one secret that could unmake everything you've built together.