Alice and Teddy are high school seniors and close friends. They are busy with school, sports, and planning their futures. Everything is going according to plan until their plans drastically change.

Windfall.

Alice brings Teddy a lotto ticket for his 18th birthday, and he wins. Millions. Teddy quickly becomes the poster boy for the lottery as TV appearances and managing a gargantuan amount of money consume his days. Graduating from high school now seems like a mere afterthought. Living it up seems to have become his mission in life. 

Alice declines a gift from Teddy, and their relationship is on the rocks. She struggles with the what-ifs of her own life, and burrows her energy into preparing for college and goals of the future. Like everyone who knows Teddy, Alice feels flummoxed by his sudden change in life circumstances. She hopes for the best and attempts to be the best friend to him that she can.

Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith, 2017

I love this topic, and the author clearly researched lottery winners. Unfortunately, most winners squander their money within two years of receiving the jackpot. Suddenly coming into large amounts of money creates stressors that winners must contend with.

Books about the lottery 

The Sudden Money Institute website
 

Audrey Nelson's parents are professors at Whedon College in Crescent Bay, a small town in California. Audrey does not enjoy school and does not aspire to receive a collegiate education, even a tuition-free one. Instead, she longs to explore the world, to be in a different town. Going to college after high school seems like stuffing herself into a box that is not her size.

During the summer after her senior year in high school, Audrey embarks on a Certified Nursing Assistant adventure at the local assisted living facility. There, she meets many residents—many of whom are characters—including Tamora. She also reconnects with Seth, a childhood friend who works in the janitorial department, and finds many things to talk to him about. They find they share a bond that pulls them through the daily life of bedpans and late-night shifts. They struggle to demarcate their paths in life during many breaks, lunches, and sunrises. 

Audrey's mother, Iris Cox Nelson, is in Naples, Italy on a sabbatical from the college. She very much desires that her daughter will take full advantage of an education at Whedon. The family talks together on Sundays, and Audrey's dad also wants her to go to college. Siblings Jake and Rosie are noncommittal on that point.

The future looms ahead… and gets closer with each passing day. Audrey must make a decision about the course of her life… and communicate this to her family.

The Foreseeable Future by Emily Adrian, 2018

I love the possibilities that lie ahead in this young woman's life; in addition, the small town setting is idyllic.

Emily Adrian's website