Seventeen-year-old best friends Rachel and Riley are in forbidden love.
Their situation’s. . .complicated. And their timing couldn’t be worse—in just one month, he leaves for California and she starts college in New York. The absolute last thing they need is a reckless secret-love confession mucking up their perfect plans.
There’s only one logical option: scientific intervention.
Desperate for a quick fix, they sign up for WAVES, an experimental self-help program led by mysterious scientist David A. Kerning. He swears his Forbidden Love Module can turn passion back to safe platonic friendship in “six easy steps.”
But when you arm yourself with an untested program, side effects are unpredictable.
And sometimes when you fight love—love fights back.
FUN STUFF
“A hilarious and touching story of what happens when you’re willing to try almost anything to avoid the pain of love … J.C. Lillis is the master of a particular kind of character + detail pairing that makes everyone in her novels feel alive.”—Roan Parrish, author of the Middle of Somewhere series
“Utterly different and new … I love that Lillis sidesteps any gender tropes with Rachel and Riley. You will feel ALL the things with We Won’t Feel A Thing.”—Jennifer Ellision, author of the Threats of Sky & Sea series
“[Lillis’s] voice is so unmistakably hers that you find yourself smiling through this weird and wonderful story, which is almost like a modern fairy tale.”—Kristen Strassel, author of the Night Songs collection and the Spotlight series
“Feels like a wonderful Wes Anderson film … Lillis has her trademark sense of humor, plus her inward eye shows how beautiful and awkward first love can be in an uncliched way. Bravo!”—Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons, author of Ella Bella and I Woke Up in Love This Morning
