The Edge of Everything (The Edge of Everything, #1)

by Jeff Giles

Men had looked at her like this ever since she was 12. When she first talked to her mother about it, her mom had said, “Zoe, sit down for a second. It’s time I taught you the meaning of the phrase ‘horrible lowlife perv.’”

Unlike the bruised skin of his face,

???

bed head—he used to call it “hair salad.”

When Zoe was a baby, her mother dressed her in onesies that said Hero and Protagonist.

Nearby, there was a fat paperback lying open on a chair—a time-travel romance about a guy in a kilt.

OUTLANDER!!

“Just because I think heterosexual sex is gross and immoral doesn’t mean I don’t understand what a hot guy is.” Zoe laughed. “It’s immoral now, too?” she said. “Hello, overpopulation! Hello, world poverty!”

“Verily,

Hearts are fragile—the good ones, at least.