"I thought I wanted to be normal. When my dad offered to take me to the Emerald Coast of Florida for summer vacation, I jumped at the chance to find answers to questions I'd been too afraid to ask. Isn't that what my dreams had been telling me, that here in this place of water, and sun, and sand I could be normal? As it turned out, I wasn't normal. I was something else, something I didn't even know existed. I didn't know how to be this girl with a siren song. And I sure didn't know what to do with Noah Jacobs, the boy who ...
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"I thought I wanted to be normal. When my dad offered to take me to the Emerald Coast of Florida for summer vacation, I jumped at the chance to find answers to questions I'd been too afraid to ask. Isn't that what my dreams had been telling me, that here in this place of water, and sun, and sand I could be normal? As it turned out, I wasn't normal. I was something else, something I didn't even know existed. I didn't know how to be this girl with a siren song. And I sure didn't know what to do with Noah Jacobs, the boy who answered when I called. A boy with eyes like the ocean that sparkled outside my window, a boy left emotionally stripped by the death of his brother. I didn't want to risk hurting him. I wanted to trust him. But before I could do that, I needed to learn to trust myself. I was running toward something, and he was running away, and somehow we met in the middle"--
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