EVERYONE LOVES SLOANE MERCER

Everyone loves Sloane Mercer. She has spent eleven years making sure of it.

Sloane knows how people work.

Find the lonely girl at the party. Ask two real questions. Remember the answers. Make someone laugh. Never be difficult. Never need too much.

At twenty, she has perfected the mathematics of being liked.

The problem is that Sloane has no idea whether anyone would love her if she stopped calculating.

Then her best friend Nadia brings her to the Aster Conservatory-a strange, beautiful old glasshouse filled with tropical heat, Victorian archives, hundreds of butterflies, and Elias Vale.

Elias is observant, blunt, impossible to charm...

...and the first person in years who looks at Sloane and seems completely unaffected.

She hates it.

She may also be falling for him.

But the Aster has another tradition. For more than a century, visitors have whispered their deepest wishes to butterflies and released them into the glasshouse, trusting an insect incapable of speech to carry their secrets away.

Sloane knows it's only folklore.

Until one lonely night, she makes a wish of her own.

I wish everybody would love me.

And then she adds the part she has never been able to say aloud.

Even me.

After that, the world begins behaving differently.

People look longer. Opportunities appear. Friends become strangely agreeable. Butterflies follow her through the winter. Even Sloane's reflection is changing into something beautiful enough to frighten her.

And when hundreds of butterflies turn toward her at once, only one person in the entire glasshouse doesn't.

Elias.

Now Sloane must find out what her wish actually did-and whether being loved by everyone is very different from being truly known.

Witty, romantic, strange, and quietly unsettling, Everyone Loves Sloane Mercer is a contemporary speculative novel about beauty, desire, friendship, self-worth, and the dangerous difference between being adored and being loved.