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Violence
Barely any
A plane crash as the inciting event; the physical reality of injury and recovery
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Adult romantic relationship developing during recovery; nothing explicit
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
The grief of a changed body and a changed future; the slow recognition that who you were is not who you have to remain
What this book is about
Maggie Jacobsen's life is going exactly to plan when her pilot fiancé crashes a small plane on the night he proposed. Maggie survives with a spinal cord injury. Her fiancé does not share her commitment to recovery. The physical therapist assigned to her, Ian, is difficult and brilliant and — against every rule — falling for her. Katherine Center's novel is a story about rebuilding an identity when the body you had is gone, and about the difference between the life you planned and the life you can still choose.
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disability and spinal cord injury depicted
romantic relationship during recovery
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