Forever Blue — Jennifer Edlund

What would you do if your first love suddenly walked back into your life? This is a question Alexa Moore finds herself asking the moment she comes face to face with her childhood sweetheart, nearly fifteen years after his mysterious disappearance. In this coming of age novel, it's the summer of 1992. Carter Storm is a precocious thirteen-year-old child actor awaiting his big break in the entertainment industry. Alexa Moore is just a regular teenager, seeking acceptance from her peers. With heartbreak and humor, these two friends expose a world of secrets and learn to survive in the face of life's contradictions and tragedies. When Carter's dark life suddenly unveils before Alexa's eyes, she witnesses her best friend beaten down mercilessly by his stage mother's antics, but Alexa's strong will and determination helps Carter pull through his darkest hours. The two are bonded by a love that only deepens as they grow. However, Carter's mother will do everything she can to keep them apart, so that her prodigy is not distracted. As a result, the two are forced keep their childhood romance hidden from prying eyes. When Alex discovers Carter's family packed up and gone without so much as a chance for goodbyes, her world shatters. Fifteen years later, Carter Storm resurfaces as a Grammy award winner, with a new name, a new life, and an entourage of screaming girls and paparazzi following him everywhere he goes. Unknowingly, Alexa randomly comes face to face with Carter Storm over a decade later. The encounter sets off a string of events that will have Alexa torn between the man she loves and the man she once loved. How far will she go when the man from her past suddenly walks into her future? Above all, this is a story about friendship--its risks, twists, turns and complications---and how it weathers the challenges of love, and most of all, growing up. The first book in a two book series.