When You Open Your Eyes
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A consuming passion turns dangerous in this lush and lyrical novel set in Buenos Aires.
The more you love, the more you stand to lose….
Tessa’s head over heels for Lucien, the son of a French diplomat. Sexy, artistic, and daring, he brings out a completely new side of her. With him, Tessa feels beautiful and exotic. So when Tessa’s strict father forbids her to see Lucien, she’s determined to keep their relationship a secret.
But as Tessa gets caught up in Lucien, he becomes increasingly volatile. What she once found alluring about him now feels alarming. Tessa must figure out how far she’ll go for Lucien before she risks losing not just him, but everything she loves.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Conway (The Goodbye Time) pens an atmospheric novel set in Buenos Aires, where 16-year-old Tessa finds first love. Transplanted from suburban Virginia to Argentina by her controlling FBI agent father and self-absorbed mother, Tessa is immediately drawn to Lucien the moody, artistic, and magnetic son of a French diplomat even though her father forbids their relationship. Leaving her old life behind piece by piece, Tessa is drawn into a steamy clandestine romance with Lucien ("I want to fly away with him and never be left behind again"), as well as a life of partying with new friends who have the freedom she envies. But Lucien isolates Tessa as his behavior becomes increasingly unpredictable and violent; he pressures her into sex, leaves the country for weeks without calling, and plots a terrorist-inspired art project. Tessa's meditative and intimate voice carries the story, as does the threat of Lucien's instability. Thick with evocative descriptions of the subtle and not-so-subtle adaptations involved in living abroad, Conway's story is gripping and memorable. Ages 14 up.
