Lizzy Mason grew up in northern Virginia b efore moving to New York City for college and a career in publishing. Now back in Virginia with her two cats\, when not reading or writing\, Lizzy l oves to travel. She has visited forty-four states and eleven countries so far. She is the author of The Art of Losing and Between the B liss and Me.
\nBetween the Bliss and Me:
\nWhen eighteen-year-old Sydney Holman announces that she's accepted a large fina ncial gift from her grandparents and has decided to attend NYU\, her famil y is shocked. Her decision means she will be living in the Big City instea d of commuting to Rutgers like her mom had hoped. It also means she'll be close to off-limits but dreamy Grayson&mdash\;a guitar prodigy who is goin g to Juilliard in the fall and very much isn't single.
\nBut while s he dreams of her new life\, Sydney discovers a world-changing truth about her past: the story she believed about her father\, who left when she was little due to a drug addiction\, is not the whole story&mdash\;he has schi zophrenia and is currently living on the streets of New York City. While s he considers reconnecting with a father she never really knew\, Sydney als o learns that there's a statistical chance that she will develop schizophr enia within the next few years.
\nEven as she continues to fall for Grayson\, Sydney is faced with a difficult decision: Should she stay close to home so her mom can watch over her\, or follow the desire to take risk s and discover her true self?
\nThe Art of Losing: \;\n
One terrible night\, 17-year-old Harley Langston&rsquo\;s life chan ges forever. A car accident leaves her younger sister\, Audrey\, in a coma . Harley&rsquo\;s boyfriend\, Mike\, was at the wheel&mdash\;drunk at the time\, though relatively unscathed. The sickening irony is that Audrey wou ld be fine if Harley hadn&rsquo\;t caught her wasted with Mike at a party and abandoned her in a rage. Now Harley is left only with guilt\, grief\, pain and the undeniable truth that her ex-boyfriend has a drinking problem . So it&rsquo\;s a surprise that she finds herself reconnecting with Raf\, a neighbor and childhood friend who&rsquo\;s recently out of rehab and st ill wrestling with his own demons. At first Harley doesn&rsquo\;t want to get too close to him. But as Audrey awakens from her coma and slowly recov ers\, Raf starts to show Harley a path forward that she never would have b elieved possible\, one guided by honesty\, forgiveness\, and redemption
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