All the Ways You Saved Me

Jamie Howard

SMP Swerve, 2016

Agent: Jessica Watterson

Bianca Easton is the perfect senator's daughter.

Law school? Check.

Camera-ready smile? Check.

A dull and boring existence? Double check.

But that was before. Before she lost her best and only friend in a tragic accident. Before she found that friend's unfinished bucket list. Definitely before she turned her life upside-down by deciding to stay in New York for six months to finish it.

It's while she's checking off her first item on the list, buy coffee for a stranger, that she meets Ian Mathis. Between the tattoo sleeve curling up his right arm, his guitar-roughened fingertips, and the secrets shadowing his past, he's a complication Bianca doesn't need but desperately wants.

With every item they cross off the list together, Bianca uncovers a piece of herself that she's buried under what's expected, all the while breaking her own rules by falling hard for Ian. But when her six months run out, Bianca has to decide if she's willing to risk her empty but picture-perfect life for a chance at real, messy love.

Reviews:
"Tackling death, loss, and new beginnings, this story has ample substance and proves Howard’s (Until It’s Right) new adult novel to be a standout. An engaging, nonlinear time line, believable characters, and sweet love scenes give readers all the right emotional tugs."
Library Journal (starred)