Heart Bones
Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah's plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan. Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they're both drawn to sad things. Which means they're drawn to each other. Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn't realize is that a rip current is coming, and it's about to drag her heart out to sea.
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After a hard childhood, Beyah Grim is sent to spend the summer with the father she barely knows in his Galveston beach house. The boy in the house next door knows pieces of her she has not told anyone.
Heart Bones was written by Colleen Hoover and originally self-published in 2020. It is a contemporary romance and is among Hoover's catalog of standalone titles.
Yes. Heart Bones contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 3 to 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. It sits in the steamier portion of Colleen Hoover's range.
Yes. Heart Bones contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 3 to 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. It sits in the steamier portion of Colleen Hoover's range.
Heart Bones is 336 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Heart Bones takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Heart Bones is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
Heart Bones is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.