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BLEED LIKE ME

Seventeen-year old Amelia Gannon is invisible to almost everyone in her life. Her parents are too overwhelmed with her three high-needs adopted brothers to pay her any attention. Her teachers see an average girl who doesn't have the grades for anything but community college. Her best friend is more interested in bumming cigarettes than bonding. Some days, the only way Gannon knows she's real is by carving bloody lines into the flesh of her stomach.

Then Michael Brooks walks through the back door of the hardware store where she works. Obnoxious, controlling, damaged and addicting, he inserts himself into her life until all her scars are exposed. Swept into an intense relationship with a broken boy, Gannon finds an outlet for her pain and anger. But as the relationship deepens, their passion and volatility become dangerous to them both.

A Sid and Nancy-type YA story, BLEED LIKE ME addresses the devastation of intense co-dependence in two vulnerable, emotionally-scarred teens.