Gemma Open Door helps people acquire English language literacy skills with relevant, engaging content suitable for emergent and reluctant readers. Always original, never adapted, these stories by best-selling authors and important new voices introduce adults and young adults to the life-changing power of reading.

Young Jaimie, a high school senior, holes himself up in an isolated cabin on a New Hampshire lake to mourn the tragic death of his girlfriend. He expects to be alone. So who is that swimmer he sees through the mist, out on the lake? What is the wailing he hears as night falls...the cry of the loon? Maybe Jannie had something else in mind when she made him promise they would be together forever. After all, hadn't they been voted The Couple Most Likely to Stay Together?