Twenty-year-old Casey Tannenbaum wants nothing more than to get the hell away from her disaster of a life and all of the idiotic mistakes she's made.
It's only now that she realizes she probably shouldn't have fallen for Evan, the hard-partying deadbeat with a penchant for cheating, or let him talk her into sleeping with him when she knew he wasn't looking for more. But she did. And after making one rash decision that can forever change her life, she decides she doesn't want to deal with anything anymore.
So she does the next best thing--she runs away.
Casey disappears from her Pennsylvania college campus to Heidelberg--a quaint, fairytale city in Germany to study abroad. She does everything in her power to keep her mind off of her previous life: develops a crush on her new best friend, takes advantage of her newly-acquired ability to drink legally, and avoids interacting with any former friends. And it works. For a short time, that is.
But when she is faced with the realization that she can't hide from the consequences of her decision any longer, Casey's entire world dissolves into a tornado of emotions, and she's left with nothing but her haunting nightmares, a few tattered pictures, and the weight of her biggest regret--the one that might drown her if she doesn't find a way to forgive herself.
It's only now that she realizes she probably shouldn't have fallen for Evan, the hard-partying deadbeat with a penchant for cheating, or let him talk her into sleeping with him when she knew he wasn't looking for more. But she did. And after making one rash decision that can forever change her life, she decides she doesn't want to deal with anything anymore.
So she does the next best thing--she runs away.
Casey disappears from her Pennsylvania college campus to Heidelberg--a quaint, fairytale city in Germany to study abroad. She does everything in her power to keep her mind off of her previous life: develops a crush on her new best friend, takes advantage of her newly-acquired ability to drink legally, and avoids interacting with any former friends. And it works. For a short time, that is.
But when she is faced with the realization that she can't hide from the consequences of her decision any longer, Casey's entire world dissolves into a tornado of emotions, and she's left with nothing but her haunting nightmares, a few tattered pictures, and the weight of her biggest regret--the one that might drown her if she doesn't find a way to forgive herself.
