


And at first, Ava is so relieved to be near him-even if he is just a ghost-that she doesn't want to leave the house, doesn't want to visit with her friends, doesn't want to go out and have your typical summer fun. She feels him, smells him, hears him, sees him. What Ava realizes soon after Jackson's been buried is that he's never really left. And it spans the summer-he died at an end-of-school party in May-when she is most lost. We feel the rawness and vulnerability of her aloneness, her grief. We see her grieving we see her distraught. Our first glimpse of Ava is at his funeral. I Heart You, You Haunt Me.Īva's boyfriend Jackson Montgomery has tragically died when the novel, I Heart You, You Haunt Me, opens.
