Wrapped in Cotton (and Maybe Love)

Colton has spent most of his life being treated like he's made of glass — and honestly, he gets it. Almost dying at eight will do that to people. But he's sixteen now, cancer-free (mostly), and thoroughly done being wrapped in cotton wool by his overprotective brother Caleb and Caleb's annoyingly, infuriatingly, criminally attractive best friend Hunter.

The Pact they made in a hospital hallway when they were ten is sweet. It's also suffocating.

So when Colton's ALL comes back — quietly, cruelly, like it never really left — he's facing something harder than chemo and hair loss and months of bone-deep exhaustion. He's facing Hunter, who shows up with his Nintendo DS and terrible jokes and eyes that make Colton forget how to be sick. Hunter, who made a promise to keep him alive. Hunter, who might be the reason Colton actually wants to be.

Wrapped in Cotton is a YA MM romance about the impossible softness of being loved by someone who is terrified of losing you — and learning to let yourself be held, even when you're not sure you'll make it to the other side.

For readers who pick up the saddest books and rage-quit if there's no happy ending. This one ends the way we need it to.