This Lullaby

For eighteen-year-old Remy Starr, love is a predictable and disappointing affair. Having watched her romance-novelist mother cycle through four husbands with a fifth on the way, she has created a set of rules to protect herself: keep relationships short, end them before they get serious, and never, ever date a musician. Her father, a man she never met, left behind nothing but a one-hit wonder, a song about her that serves as a constant reminder of love's unreliability. Remy has her summer planned out and an exit strategy for college in the fall, leaving no room for emotional complications.

This carefully controlled existence is disrupted when she meets Dexter Jones. He is everything she avoids: impulsive, disorganized, and the lead singer of a local band. Despite her immediate dismissal, Dexter is persistent, and Remy unexpectedly finds herself breaking all of her own rules. As her final summer at home unfolds, she is confronted with the possibility that her cynical view of love might not be the whole story. The book explores whether it is worth taking a leap of faith on someone who challenges everything you believe, even when you are convinced you know how the story will end.