When a falling pop star meets a struggling girl, their fragile romantic fantasy becomes everything. "It wasn’t dramatic like some grand moment I had envisioned, where I ran into your arms. In fact, I felt devastated at how simple it was. It dawned upon me that perhaps I was nothing more than a ghost in a song you hadn’t figured out how to finish." At seventeen, Melanie is working part-time in a hotel, quietly grieving the death of her best friend. Then she meets Caleb Morsley—known to the world as Kai Maddox, pop star, heartthrob, tabloid magnet. To escape their fractured lives, Melanie and Caleb invent a private they pretend to be tragic lovers, role playing Catherine and Henry in A Farewell to Arms. A fiction. A joke. Something that can’t hurt them. But the years that follow are anything but harmless. As Caleb’s fame rises and falls amid addiction and scandal, Melanie and Caleb try to keep their distance—holding onto a game, not a relationship. But no matter how hard they avoid it, they can’t escape the love finds a way in, and both must face how far a fantasy can bend before it breaks. Written in piercing second person, this is their a dark, intimate exploration of love, grief, cultural differences and the lies we tell to survive across continents, years, and broken hearts. We Almost Made It was written over twelve years of rewriting and reflection. The story grew through many drafts. This novel is shaped carefully with a commitment to an intimate reading experience.