The Color of Us

Callie Evans isn’t exactly living her best life in Los Angeles. She dropped out of college, has been repeatedly fired, and is now literally watching paint dry at a hardware store for a living. This depressing existence isn't what she had planned for her early twenties, but here she is.Although she’s faced a shattering trauma, she’s learning that avoiding grief has owned her for far too long. A change of scenery might be what she needs to regroup and move forward.Callie takes a few months away from her California chaos to handle renovations on her family’s old house in small-town Vermont. This temporary escape could be just the thing to ease the pain that crushed her past and continues to impact her present. And maybe, just maybe, she’ll get a chance to reconnect with a certain boy from her childhood, whom she’s now aching to see again.When Callie rolls back into her hometown, she finds that her preteen crush, Danny, has turned into a wildly hot twenty-something. The things that haven’t changed are his humor and kindness. But Danny’s hidden demons might possibly be even more painful than her own.As Callie spends the summer falling in love with cooking, home repairs, and hosting brunches for her quirky neighbors, she also fights falling in actual love with Danny. After all, she knows from experience that love is never guaranteed to last.Only the summer will tell. "The Color of Us is a beautiful return to form by beloved indie phenom Jessica Park. Her brand of genuine, down-to-earth, laugh-out-loud romance is compulsively readable. This book is Park at her most vibrant and heartfelt. It's like coming home again. Jessica is back, and she's going to rip your heart out and return it with a whole new beautiful mess of feelings inside."- Bestselling Author Elliot Wake “Jessica Park’s The Color of Us simultaneously gives readers the comfort and nostalgia of an early indie romance, while also bringing a brand new love story guaranteed to put you ‘all up in your feels’ — making it the perfect story for forever fans and new readers alike!” – Bestselling Author Dee Lagasse “The Color of Us is a devastatingly beautiful story. A perfect balance of heat, and humor, and beautiful romance that I just could not put down.” — Reader Anjanette R. “Jessica Park has done it again! Her words always flow effortlessly across the pages as she unravels a beautifully written story, and The Color of Us is no exception. This book is not just a story of love, but also one of courage and hope.” - Reader Katie M.