Because You'll Never Meet Me

Oliver Ollie Paulot sees electricity in full color-saffron loops swirling around power lines, silver confetti bursting from outlets, green plumes trailing from computer keyboards-a beautiful but deadly condition that triggers crippling grand mal seizures. Ollie lives in a remote cabin with his overprotective mom, visited only by the eccentric Doctor Auburn-Stache, the family physician, and Liz, the only friend Ollie has ever made.
Moritz was born without eyes and sees via an acute form of echolocation, like a bat. Enrolled in a school for problem students, he is shunned by his misfit peers and tormented by a bully named Lenz. Moritz also has cardiomyopathy, and is kept alive by an electric pacemaker. Ollie and Moritz can never meet-if they did, Ollie would seize, but turning off the pacemaker would kill Moritz.
As the boys develop a fierce bond through their letters, the world changes around them. Liz moves on to high school, leaving Ollie behind, and Moritz can't escape Lenz's wrath. Their letters to each other become a lifeline during dark times-until Moritz reveals that he holds the key to their shared, sinister past, and has been keeping it from Ollie all along.