Dear Emmie Blue
(Book)

"A novel about teenager Emmie Blue, who releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it; now, fourteen years later, the one thing Emmie has been counting on is gone for good, and everything she planned is up in the air"--

Years ago Emmie Blue released a red balloon into the sky; attached was her name, her email address-- and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. Weeks later, on a beach in France, Lucas Moreau discovered the balloon and immediately emailed back. Fourteen years later, Emmie is hiding the fact that she's desperately in love with Lucas. She has all but neglected her life outside of this relationship: given up the search for her absentee father; ignoring her distant mother, and living as a lodger to an old lady after being laid off from her job. When Lucas tells Emmie he has a big question to ask her, things don't go quite as she planned. -- adapted from Goodreads info