Right Behind You by Gail Giles

Giles, Gail. Right Behind You. New York : Little, Brown & Company, 2007. ISBN 978-0-316-16636-2

Who would have guessed the good looking, record setting star of the swim team would be hiding a secret past? Kip McFarland has been dealing with his painful past ever since he murdered another child when he was 9 years old. Whether the murder was intentional or not, Kip cannot forgive himself. After his release from a mental facility for children his family moves to Indiana from Alaska. At his new high school Kip reinvents himself as Wade Madison. But when he leaks his secret past to further punish himself for his crime, his family gets chased out of town again. After meeting a new friend, with a secret past of her own, will Kip finally be able to learn to forgive himself?