#1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us held readers spellbound with her novel Hopeless the story of what happened when a troubled girl named Sky encountered a long-lost childhood friend Dean. Now in Losing Hope we finally learn the truth about Dean Holder. Haunted by the little girl he couldn t save from imminent danger Holder s life has been overshadowed by feelings of guilt and remorse. He has never stopped searching for her believing that finding her would bring him the peace he needs to move on. However Holder could not have anticipated that he would be faced with even greater pain the moment they reconnected. In Losing Hope Holder reveals the way in which the events of Sky s youth affected him and his family leading him to seek his own redemption in the act of saving her. But it is only in loving Sky that he can finally begin to heal himself.