Variation: A Novel

Instant USA TODAY, Amazon Charts, and Publishers Weekly bestseller.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fourth Wing comes a contemporary romance about one summer that changes everything.

Elite ballerina Allie Rousseau knows pressure. Her mother demanded perfection at any cost.

An injury forces Allie home to heal. Old memories return and threaten to drown her.

Coast Guard rescue swimmer Hudson Ellis lives by split-second decisions. He once saved lives—and then made the biggest regret of his life when he left for basic.

Hudson keeps secrets that keep him from the woman he still wants more than air.

When Hudson’s niece arrives on Allie’s doorstep searching for her birth mother, Allie faces an impossible choice.

Their past and present collide. The thread that once tied them may either bind them again or tear them apart forever.