EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club discussion

What is your favorite book you’ve read in 2021?
Book Title:
Author:
Number of Pages:
In 75 words give a brief summary that will make me read this book.

This is difficult! Here is my suggestion, and my "brief summary" is a cut down version of the book blurb.
Book Title: We Begin at the End
Author: Chris Whitaker
Number of Pages: 384


Duchess Day Radley is 13 and a self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for others. She fiercely protects her five-year-old brother and is the parent to her mother who is incapable of taking care of anyone.

Walk is the chief of police, still trying to heal after giving the testimony that sent his best friend to prison decades before. He’s now protecting Duchess and her brother.

Now Vincent is being released. And trouble comes with his return.