Internationally bestselling author Anna Todd returns with a gripping novel about a young woman’s journey towards love, as well as the obstacles life throws up at every turn.

Karina knows the harsh realities of army existence. And like anyone who has grown up around an military base, she understands the background sound that comes after a soldier home from war. That is why she’s forging her personal quiet lifestyle in her own little home. But she hasn’t turned her back on her family. She’s the glue that keeps them together- about The Brightest Celebrities when her dad is certainly deployed, when her brother, Austin, offers another brush with the law.

Karina knows that she has to provide for herself, that she can’t always fix what’s broken. However when Austin’s behavior worsens and her father’s reactions grow more extreme, Karina feels her personal edges starting to fray. That’s when she meets him-a closed reserve she’s desperate to open.

At just twenty, Kael is a handsome, brooding soldier struggling with the aftermath of two travels in Afghanistan. He’s emotionally damaged and shut off. Quiet doesn’t begin to describe him. But simply because Karina gets utilized to his stable presence, she finds it hard to disregard the method he makes her feel. In their time together, she discovers the stillness she has always wanted and never found. She enables down her safeguard. And she let us herself complete the blanks concerning this mysterious man.

But illusions quickly made are quickly shattered. That’s when Karina must find her own courage-to untangle the truth from the lies, and decide what she is going to do about it.

A riveting tale about love and lays, The Brightest Stars will stay with you very long following the last page has been turned.

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