You've Reached Sam

Julie has spent the last year of high school planning a future with her boyfriend Sam — right up until the car accident that kills him. Weeks later, grieving and unable to move forward, she calls his phone one last time to hear his voicemail. Instead, Sam answers.

The calls are brief, unpredictable, and impossible to explain, but they give Julie something she thought she'd lost: more time with Sam. As the connection continues, she has to face what it's doing to her ability to grieve, and to the people around her — including Sam's mother and his best friend Oliver — who are moving forward without the secret she's keeping.

A quiet, character-driven novel about first grief and first love, told from alternating angles of holding on and letting go.