Ginger, Jess, and Jenn . . . you have outstanding taste in music. Thank you for helping me create the soundtrack for this book.

Caroline, Scott, Raquella, and Jack, you are the Very Best People and I am fortunate that you also happen to be my family. (And you, Cobi Jones, are the Very Best Dog.)

Speaking of very bests . . . Phil, I love you the very best. Always.

More from the Author
In a Perfect World	Violent Ends

About the Author

Trish Doller is the author of Something Like Normal, which was an ABC New Voices Pick and a finalist for NPR’s Best Teen Books of All Time, among many other accolades; Where the Stars Still Shine, which was an Indie Next List Pick; The Devil You Know; and In a Perfect World. She has been a newspaper reporter, radio personality, and bookseller, and she lives in Fort Myers, Florida, with a relentlessly optimistic border collie and a pirate.

Visit us at simonandschuster.com/teen

Authors.SimonandSchuster.com/Trish-Doller

Simon Pulse

Simon & Schuster, New York

ALSO BY TRISH DOLLER

Something Like Normal

Where the Stars Still Shine

The Devil You Know

In a Perfect World

We hope you enjoyed reading this Simon & Schuster ebook.

Get a FREE ebook when you join our mailing list. Plus, get updates on new releases, deals, recommended reads, and more from Simon & Schuster. Click below to sign up and see terms and conditions.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP

Already a subscriber? Provide your email again so we can register this ebook and send you more of what you like to read. You will continue to receive exclusive offers in your inbox.

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

SIMON PULSE

An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division

1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020

First Simon Pulse hardcover edition August 2019

Text copyright © 2019 by Trish Doller

Jacket photograph close-up of rope copyright © 2019 by iStock.com/AlKane

Jacket photograph of girl on rope copyright © 2019 by iStock.com/Hakase

Jacket photograph of sailboat copyright © 2019 by iStock.com/Meghan McGrath

Jacket photograph of girls in sunglasses copyright © 2019 by Daniel Grill/Getty Images

Jacket photograph of lake © 2019 by iStock.com/David Montgomery

Jacket photograph of marina © 2019 by iStock.com/haveseen

SIMON PULSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 or [email protected].

The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event.

Jacket designed by Tiara Iandiorio

Interior designed by Mike Rosamilia

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Doller, Trish, author.

Title: Start here / by Trish Doller.

Description: New York : Simon Pulse, 2019. |