The Rules of Midnight

Seventeen-year-old Ava Carter keeps her world small-school, work, and caring for her little sister under the watchful eye of a grandmother who believes emotions are best folded away like laundry. But when the streetlights flicker on, Ava becomes someone else entirely: Ghost, a dancer at The Hush, an underground skate-court-turned-sanctuary where secrets move to the rhythm of basslines and borrowed courage.

What starts as a release becomes something deeper when a cryptic note-"Keep Flying"-appears in her locker and two very different boys begin to challenge the walls she's built: Ethan, the steady friend who has always been her safe place, and Jace, the reckless musician who sees the version of her she's never dared to be. As lines blur between loyalty and longing, Ava finds herself torn between the life she knows and the one that might finally set her free.

But freedom has its cost-and facing the truth about her family, her grief, and herself means learning that not all love stories are meant to be tidy, and not all homes are built from walls.

Tender, lyrical, and raw, The Rules of Midnight is a story of family, self-discovery, and the beautiful mess of growing up-perfect for readers who loved Eleanor & Park, If He Had Been With Me, and I'll Give You the Sun.