Five friends. One senior year. Five very different versions of what comes next.
Everyone keeps asking Mara, Jace, Lena, Theo, and Nia the same question: What are you doing after graduation? The problem is, none of them really knows.
Mara is quietly wondering whether leaving home means abandoning the people who need her. Jace jokes his way around a future he is afraid he has already messed up. Lena is trying to hold on while the life she thought was permanent begins changing. Theo has the kind of plan adults love — except it isn’t really his. And Nia cannot wait to leave town…until leaving becomes real.
Set during one unforgettable senior year, Almost Grown is a contemporary YA series about friendship, first love, family, pressure, changing plans, and that strange in-between place where everyone expects you to act like an adult while you are still figuring out who you want to become.
Each novel follows a different member of the same close-knit friend group, revealing the fears, secrets, and choices the others never completely saw.
Because sometimes the people who look the most ready to grow up are just getting better at hiding how scared they are.
Everyone Thinks I’m Fine — Book One
Mara Bennett has the grades, the college acceptance, and the future everyone expected. She also has one secret: she isn’t sure she’s going.