the other side of okay

One boy is haunted by a hero. The other is haunted by a monster. They are both running from the same person.

Rylan Bennet is every version of himself that he has ever been. And he hurts for the boy holding the blade. He is an expert at the disappearing act. He spends his days folding himself into small, digestible pieces, trying to survive a house that had always been so far from a home. When he looks at the night sky, he sees the space between every bright object, the vastness that swallows everything whole. But after meeting Dalton McGuire, he notices the stars becoming brighter and the void beginning to shrink.

Dalton intimately knows pain. And he specializes in running away from it. When his best friend overdosed and passed away, his universe shattered. And broken things are hard to look at, so he covers them up with wild laughter, with fleeting relationships, with glass bottles–and they vanish just like that. But how long can you flee before the source catches up?

When two polar worlds collide, it changes each boy’s life completely. It even turns out that their lives have been circling each other–and the same dead boy–without them even noticing. But whether you remember that it’s there or not, gravity has the power to rip apart celestial bodies, let alone teenage boys.

In this raw YA tragedy, Rylan and Dalton must decide whether their love is a lifeline–or the very thing that will end their universe.