Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. Just listen Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. Stay he says. Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind? Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family and in an instant everything changes. Suddenly all the choices are gone except one. And it's the only one that matters. If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love the true meaning of family and the choices we all make.