Rebecca Johnson has turned down every boy who’s asked her out.
The students at Ridgeway High call her The Enigma. To sixteen-year-old Connor Hicks—a hopeless romantic with a years-long crush—she’s a mystery he’s desperate to solve.
There’s only one problem: Connor can barely talk to her.
When he does, the beasts descend. With claws. Teeth. Screeches. Monstrous manifestations of every fear telling him he was safer when Rebecca didn’t know his name.
After watching one reckless choice cost his father the woman he loved, Connor is terrified heartbreak runs in the family.
But he’s done loving Rebecca from a distance. Armed with a dusty ’80s romance novel, two oddball friends, and her favorite rose-obsessed blockbuster as his best clue to her heart, Connor sets out to do what no other boy has done: win The Enigma’s yes.
Except senior Jay Summers intends to make sure he doesn’t.
Rich, magnetic, and far more interested in Rebecca’s body than the girl inside it, Jay wants his own kind of yes. And he’s not used to being denied.
The clock is ticking. Prom is coming. Caught between an unbeatable rival, a drunk father, and deafening beasts, Connor must stop studying love from the sidelines and finally risk living it himself.
Flower Dress is a heartfelt small-town coming-of-age novel with an imaginative magical-realism edge about first love, fathers and sons, longing, and the messy search for what it really means to love someone.
Genre: Fantasy
The students at Ridgeway High call her The Enigma. To sixteen-year-old Connor Hicks—a hopeless romantic with a years-long crush—she’s a mystery he’s desperate to solve.
There’s only one problem: Connor can barely talk to her.
When he does, the beasts descend. With claws. Teeth. Screeches. Monstrous manifestations of every fear telling him he was safer when Rebecca didn’t know his name.
After watching one reckless choice cost his father the woman he loved, Connor is terrified heartbreak runs in the family.
But he’s done loving Rebecca from a distance. Armed with a dusty ’80s romance novel, two oddball friends, and her favorite rose-obsessed blockbuster as his best clue to her heart, Connor sets out to do what no other boy has done: win The Enigma’s yes.
Except senior Jay Summers intends to make sure he doesn’t.
Rich, magnetic, and far more interested in Rebecca’s body than the girl inside it, Jay wants his own kind of yes. And he’s not used to being denied.
The clock is ticking. Prom is coming. Caught between an unbeatable rival, a drunk father, and deafening beasts, Connor must stop studying love from the sidelines and finally risk living it himself.
Flower Dress is a heartfelt small-town coming-of-age novel with an imaginative magical-realism edge about first love, fathers and sons, longing, and the messy search for what it really means to love someone.
Genre: Fantasy