Never Just Coincidence

Two best friends. One boy. The same impossible night. Kate Halonen just wants to graduate with honors — but the universe, as usual, has other plans.

Kate Halonen has always called her family's luck "weird, not bad" — the kind that makes her the tallest girl in every room, gets her a birthday she'd rather forget, and somehow always finds a way to make an ordinary week interesting. She didn't expect it to make her pregnant.

She really didn't expect her best friend Natalie to end up pregnant too — by the same boy, the same night, an impossible coincidence neither of them can explain and neither of them asked for.

What follows is the strangest, hardest, most stubbornly extraordinary year of Kate's life: a rumor that outruns every attempt to kill it, a boy who won't explain himself, a gym teacher who watches the three of them a little too closely, and a book of illustrations that unsettles her far more than teenage-boy weirdness should. Somewhere underneath the morning sickness, the Mean Girl Squad, and the increasingly complicated math of surviving senior year while visibly pregnant, something else is going on — something that has nothing to do with luck at all.

Kate just has to finish the year, keep her grades up, and figure out the truth before it finds her first.