Description: Told from alternating perspectives, when lifeguard Nick hesitates during a save, seventeen-year-old December uses her gift of foreknowledge to help, but she inadvertently sets off a chain of events that puts Nick's life in danger.
Brief description: Joan F. Smith is the author of The Other Side of Infinity and The Half-Orphan's Handbook, a dance instructor, and a former associate dean of creative writing. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. Joan lives and writes in Massachusetts, where she was the 2021 Writer-in-Residence at the Milton Public Library. When she's not writing, she's either wrangling her kids, embarking on a new hobby she will quickly abandon, or listening to podcasts on a run.