The Art of Feeling

Clare Ghimmel has dreams of being an artist, but when her mother dies suddenly, her father decides it¿s the perfect time to move out of the city and across the country to her mother¿s hometown. Things are promising, even as Clare starts a new school the fall of her senior year. That is, until the art program is threatened by budget cuts. Clare sets off on the mission of saving the program that gave her mother a future, while catching the attention of one of her beautiful classmates. What is it about Alexa that makes Clare so nervous?Alexa Woods on has two goals in life; to feel nothing and to get out of Astoria. Both goals seem to fade away the moment the new girl walks into her English class. Even as Alexa throws herself into her training and tries to avoid Clare all together, nothing seems as important as getting to know her. Alexa quickly becomes torn between her father¿s rules about love, her own dreams, and the inescapable callings of her own heart. Is love worth sacrificing everything she¿s ever known?