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Ever Since by Alena Bruzas

Ever Since

Alena Bruzas

Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · January 14, 2025

An intense, beautiful debut about the power of finding your voice and sharing your story after trauma.

Contemporary YA RomanceYA LGBTQ+Surviving Sexual Abuseromance
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Who it’s for
Private feelings meet the hard question of when silence stops protecting anyone.
Genres
Surviving Sexual Abuse, Contemporary YA Romance, YA LGBTQ+
Published
Penguin Young Readers Group, January 14, 2025

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About this book

An intense, beautiful debut about the power of finding your voice and sharing your story after trauma. Perfect for fans of Nina LaCour and Kathleen Glasgow. Seventeen-year-old Virginia makes bad choices. In fact, she’s That Kind of Girl, according to the whispers. But as long as she has her tight group of best friends by her side, she’s able to ignore the gossipers. Until she finds herself spending time with Rumi, Poppy’s boyfriend.

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Breaking with tradition, she doesn’t hook up with Rumi. Worse, she falls in love with him. While Virginia and Rumi’s relationship grows in secret, she discovers that his little sister, Lyra, is being groomed for abuse. The soon-to-be-abuser is a respected member of the community, and only Virginia knows who he is and what he does. If she stays quiet, Lyra will become a victim. But coming forward feels equally impossible.

Love and Voice

Private feelings meet the hard question of when silence stops protecting anyone.

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  • A secret romance tangled with the courage to protect someone vulnerable

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  • An emotionally intense story about gossip, love, and speaking up after trauma

Where it sits

Surviving Sexual Abuse77%
Contemporary YA Romance59%
YA LGBTQ+48%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Emotions & Feelings for Teens
  • Mental Illness for Teens
  • Surviving Sexual Abuse
Authors
Alena Bruzas
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Published
January 14, 2025
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
Emotions & Feelings for Teens