Things I Wish I Said

Soccer superstar and lung cancer patient Ryleigh Sinclair wants a boyfriend for the summer. And my mother wants me to be the one to make her wish come true. Me. The eternal pessimist. The guy who no longer believes in happy endings after my dad died of pancreatic cancer and my girlfriend dumped me in the same month. But after weeks of spending time with Ryleigh, she somehow does the impossible. She fills the gaping hole of my father’s absence until I’m the one hoping for a miracle. I’ve learned my lesson about wishes. Happily ever afters are a lie. Yet I’m the one wishing like hell for another outcome for Ryleigh. I lost my father to cancer; I can’t lose her too.