Nobody's ever been there for Connor. He grew up with alcoholic parents whom he could never trust to put him before the booze. Now living with his Aunt Syl.

Suddenly, there's Ms Timms. Corinna. Once his teacher, now something much more. Even though he's seventeen and she thirty-one, this is love. He knows it. Has Connor finally found the one person who will always stay? Corinna is a conundrum but that really doesn't matter. What matters is what Connor feels about the relationship. He sees in it his salvation, his chance to be first in someone's, anyone's heart.

What he doesn't realize is that his aunt, his friends, and even his next-door neighbors are a kind of assembled family who all love him and watch out for him. But he insists on holding them at arm's length, scrupulously repaying his aunt for any money she spends on him and resisting his best friend's efforts to understand what's going on.

Don't go into this book expecting a salacious tale of clandestine molestation. Instead, prepare yourself for a story about a young man learning that love comes in many forms, and the one that seems obvious isn't the one that's going to stay. ( )