High school sophomore Jenny Miller goes to dances but doesn't dance. Sitting is safer, in case she has a seizure. When she meets a boy who likes to sit and talk with her, an unexpected but welcome adventure begins. He even persuades her to dance with him.
It's not quite the blissful romance of her dreams. He's an athlete, and he's too popular to be interested in a girl like her-according to other girls, and she fears it might be true. Then jealousy at school turns to bullying.
Meanwhile, these two believing Latter-day Saints are breaking a few of the many dating rules they learned at church, where some are eager to judge and to assume the worst.
Amid rumors, judgments, and bullying that turns breathtak- ingly cruel, can they face another day? Is fitting in at school or church worth the price? Is love? And which of the many things they hear at church does God actually expect them to obey?
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David Rodeback is the author of two award-winning collections of contemporary short fiction. After living in Colorado, Idaho, and New York, he now calls American Fork, Utah, home. He is the League of Utah Writers 2025 Writer of the Year.