Off the Hook (Never Harbor #1)

by Julie Olivia

“Fine. I’ll call Nana then.” “Nope, she’s gone.” I place my phone back down on the counter. “How long is Nana on vacation?” “Oh, she’s gone forever,” Bonnie says. “She’s dead?” “God, no! She moved to Aruba.” I blow out an exhale. “Christ. You can’t just say an eighty-year-old woman is gone forever.”

“You text like a serial killer.” “I do not.” “You wished me a happy birthday, and it felt like a threat.”

“She is the first person who’s made me feel like existing is possible,” I admit. “That the world isn’t going to collapse around me. That maybe I’m not failing at this whole life thing after all.” “Like existing is possible,”