All Alone With You,New

Hacks gets a romantic twist in the vein of Jenn Bennett in this simmering (Publishers Weekly) novel about a standoffish teen girl whose loner status gets challenged by a dynamic elderly woman and a perpetually cheerful boy.Eloise Deane is the worst and doesnt care who knows it. Shes grumpy, prefers to be alone, and is just slogging through senior year with one goal: get accepted to USC and move to California. So when her guidance counselor drops the bombshell that to score a scholarship shell desperately need, her applications require volunteer hours, Eloise is up for the challenge. Until shes paired with LifeCare, a volunteer agency that offers social support to lonely seniors through phone calls and visits. Basically, its a total nightmare for Eloises anxiety.Eloise realizes shes made a huge mistakeespecially when shes paired with Austin, the fellow volunteer whos the sunshine to her cloudy day. But as Eloise and Austin work together to keep Marianne Landisthe mysterious former frontwoman of the 1970s band the Laundromatscompany, something strange happens. Eloise actuallylikes Marianne and Austin? She isnt sure what to do with that, especially when her feelings toward Austin begin to blur into morethanfriends territory.And when exgirlfriends, longburied wounds, and insecurities reappear, Eloise will have a choice to make: go all in with Marianne and Austin or get out before she gets hurt.