Her first novel for adults, and her first outside of her acclaimed Traveling Pants series, it was released on June 6, 2007 by Riverhead Books.

Alice is smart, graceful and elegant, planning on applying to law school at NYU.

Riley refuses to face the urgency of the situation and insists that her medical condition be kept secret from Paul until she can tell him herself.

The following summer, Alice postpones graduate school to work as a groundskeeper and store cashier near the family's Manhattan home, while Riley awaits a donor heart transplant.

Riley finally tells Paul of her medical problems, admitting that she isn't entirely sure she wants a heart transplant.

He donates the money to Bellevue Hospital, where his wealthy but wild-living father died long ago.

Paul turns up one day, discovering his house has been sold to a new family whose children Alice babysits each morning.

Julie Anne Robinson is attached to direct the movie; it will be her second feature-length film following The Last Song.