Author: Abigail Johnson

Abigail Johnson writes contemporary teen fiction about families under pressure, difficult loyalties, and the slow work of rebuilding trust. Even If I Fall follows Brooke Covington after her older brother confesses that he killed his best friend, Calvin. Brooke's family becomes isolated in its Arizona community, and the ice rink where she once imagined a competitive future becomes her refuge. A chance encounter brings her close to Calvin's younger brother, Heath, the one person who understands the strange absence created by having a brother who is gone but still shapes daily life. The 2019 Inkyard Press edition is intended for ages fourteen and above. Johnson keeps the developing romance alongside questions that cannot be solved by romance alone: what relatives owe one another, how public judgment enters private grief, and whether affection can survive competing versions of the same loss. The result places emotional recovery within both family and community rather than treating it as an individual breakthrough.