Within this follow-up novel to the top-selling Ten Tiny Breaths, Livie Cleary faces a new group of challenges as she navigates freshman year at Princeton, wild parties, and the gorgeous rowing team captain who’s everything she doesn’t want in a guy, roughly she thinks…

Livie Cleary is definitely Miss Perfect-but she soon learns that perfection isn’t all it’s cracked up to become, and finding out who she is really might mean building some mistakes on the way.

“Make me proud.” They were the final about One Tiny Lay: A Book words Livie’s dad ever spoke to her. In the seven years since her parents’ tragic loss of life, Livie did her best to live up to this standard through her every choice, phrase, and action, while looking after her sister with strength and maturity. But with university right nearby, unexpected challenges will check her resilience-and her heart.

Livie strolls into Princeton with a good strategy, and she’s dead collection on delivering on it: Rock and roll her classes; established herself up for medical school; and meet a good, respectable man to someday marry. Her program definitely does not include Jell-O shots; a lovable, party pet roommate she can’t say “no” to; or Ashton, the arrogant-and extremely attractive-captain of the men’s rowing team who makes Livie’s generally non-existent temper flare. Even worse, he’s best friends and roommates with Connor, who happens to match Livie’s criteria perfectly. So why does she keep considering Ashton?

As Livie finds herself facing mediocre marks, career aspirations she no longer thinks she can handle, and emotions for Ashton that she shouldn’t have, she’s forced to let go of her last guarantee to her dad, and, with it, the only identification she’s ever known.