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She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship-one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge. Beautiful, pickup-driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well enough alone (as her grandmother might say), and Cam becomes an expert at both. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. Relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.īut that relief doesn't last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. But just as that starts to seem like a real possibility, Aunt Ruth takes drastic action to 'fix' her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self-even if she's not quite sure who that is.When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship, one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well enough alone, and Cam becomes an expert at both. But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. Relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.

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