Twins: A Coming-of-Age Novella - Paperback

by Laura Krieger Emack (Author)

She was eighteen, about to jump out of a birthday cake.
He was sixty, the man she was supposed to impress.
Neither expected what came next.

When Katie Monahan, a yearning, big-dreaming high-school senior with no real friends and a dead grandmother she still talks to, agrees to a reckless scheme to earn two hundred dollars, she ends up naked, terrified, and at the mercy of strangers. But the birthday boy, Ralph, surprises her. He is gruff, quietly grieving, and carrying a guilt of his own. The woman he should have loved. The life he should have lived. The hand he should have held.

She was his great love's granddaughter.
He was the grandfather Katie never had.

Told across a single unforgettable night in rural Maine, Twins is a novella about the people who shape us after they are gone, the family we claim for ourselves, and the moment a stranger looks you in the eye and chooses you.

Funny, tender, and unexpectedly moving. Perfect for readers who loved A Man Called Ove, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.