Top of his class, captain of the swim team, the son of the richest family in Cherrywood. Caleb thinks he knows exactly who everyone in town is. Then a Saturday detention puts him in the same room as four classmates he’s spent years ignoring, and a new boy named César, who doodles in the margins, never takes the bait, and is the first person to make Caleb forget what he was about to say.
What Caleb doesn’t know is that César is the son of Alissa, the woman his dad is about to propose to.
Now the boy he can’t stop thinking about is about to become his stepbrother. His best friends are keeping secrets. His own brother is falling apart. And in a town where everybody knows whose son you are, one loss, one secret, and one stranger who claims to be César’s father are enough to turn everything upside down.
That Boy is a warm, funny, suspenseful YA romance about family you choose, family you’re given, and the friends who stay when everything goes wrong.