Instead of pushing her though, Jase is content to wait until Sam is ready. He doesn’t meet her best friend until Sam is forced to call him for help, he doesn’t meet her sister or her mother as Sam knows what their opinions of the Garrett’s are. However even as Sam is fully a part of Jase’s life constantly spending time around his home, with his parents and his siblings, Jase is no one to Sam’s friends and family. She starts babysitting his younger siblings and spends more and more time with Jase until their feelings grow from friendship to something more. From the second he introduces himself he immerses Sam in his families’ lives. She is fascinated by the Garrett’s but she is content to watch their world from her room, never daring to cross the fence that separates her house from theirs.
She sees what they have a large family, two parents who are happily married, love, chaos, liveliness, and it’s so different from what she had just her mum and her sister, all three of them on different paths slowly taking them away from one another. She’s seen snapshots of their lives in small glimpses throughout the years since they moved next door to her family. Samantha Reed has sat by her window and watched the Garrett’s for years. “The Garretts were my bedtime story, long before I ever thought I’d be part of the story myself.” Which perfect family will save her? Or is it time she saved herself?Ī transporting debut about family, friendship, first romance, and how to be true to one person you love without betraying another.
She’s suddenly faced with an impossible decision. Then something unthinkable happens, and the bottom drops out of Samantha’s world. And every day from her rooftop perch, Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them…until one summer evening, Jase Garrett climbs up next to her and changes everything.Īs the two fall fiercely for each other, stumbling through the awkwardness and awesomeness of first love, Jase’s family embraces Samantha – even as she keeps him a secret from her own. The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not.
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