🎉 IF YOU WERE HERE is available now!

New Release: IF YOU WERE HERE

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If You Were Here is officially out in the world! Set on the dreamy shores of Nantucket, my Gilmore Girls meets Outer Banks YA Romance is about finding love, chasing history, and rewriting the story you thought you knew. AND it’s available wherever books are sold!

2026 Junior Library Guild Selection

“Reminiscent of the Netflix television series Outer Banks, this is a mystery shrouded in history, wrapped up with a love story.”
–School Library Journal (Starred Review)

“[O]ffers both summertime romance and a historical mystery in this sensorial grumpy-sunshine love story set on Nantucket.”
– Publisher’s Weekly

“Lili’s and Wren’s alternating first-person perspectives grapple thoughtfully with grief and romantic dilemmas…Sweet and insightful.”
– Kirkus Reviews

“This light, tame summer romance is a fun read for those who want a strong plot to go along with the smooching.”
– Booklist

DESCRIPTION:

A charming and emotional standalone grumpy/sunshine romance set during a Nantucket summer. Lili needs Wren’s help to complete her father’s research and save her family’s reputation–but working together leads to more discoveries than either of them bargained for.

Lili Gardner hasn’t been back to Nantucket, her dad’s favorite place, since her parents divorced six years ago. But Dad passed away recently, leaving her a house on the island and an unsolved mystery about a maligned Gardner ancestor. Lili is determined to finish his life’s work, and convinces her mom and sister to spend the summer in Nantucket with her while she looks for answers, and for a connection to her dad.

Wren McCleave has a passion for history, but his father refuses to showcase anything real in their tourist trap of a “museum.” So when Lili asks Wren for help with her research, Wren can’t resist the opportunity to throw himself into something real, even if he dislikes tourists on principle.

Lili and Wren only have a summer to find out the truth about Lili’s ancestor. But the most surprising truths they uncover aren’t about the distant past, but about themselves right here in the present, and about what they want out of the future.

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About Abigail

Abigail Johnson was born in Pennsylvania. When she was twelve, her family traded in snowstorms for year-round summers and moved to Arizona. Abigail chronicled the entire cross-country road trip in a purple spiral-bound notebook that she still has, and has been writing ever since. She became a tetraplegic after breaking her neck in a car accident when she was seventeen but hasn’t let that stop her from bodysurfing in Mexico, writing and directing a high-school production of Cinderella, and riding roller coasters every chance she gets. She is the author of several young adult novels including If I Fix You and Every Other Weekend. She is represented by Kim Lionetti at BookEnds Literary Agency.