For months Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her - and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect, pure flowers. His family. But flowers can't survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out...

Jude's life goal was to make people happy. People...or a person. Anyone really. He valued happiness more than anything and wanted to be able to share that if it meant possibly making someone else happy. He finally got his chance, but with Aster, the unsocial 17 year old that everyone else thought wasn't worth their time, or time in general.

"He's cheating on me I know it.." I say, my voice shaking along with my body as I wipe my blood shot eyes in front of the bathroom sink. It's been precisely ten years since Bryan and his lover Rory moved out of their hometown in Ohio and into the big city of New York. Bryan went on to become a personal counselor, and Rory a successful architect. Bryan thought their lives were perfect until one day when he found it.. One day a threatening note was found within the home. The note was heart shattering, after having read it Bryan is certain that Rory is having an affair. In pain, along with a fresh set of eyes from the past, Bryan goes through the past memories in search of the misdeeds that may have driven his beloved Rory to cheat. But as Bryan digs deeper within he finds that even in matters of the heart.. That love is never without sin.

When Bryan was 5 he witnessed much abuse of drugs and alcohol from his mother Judith after his much abusive father Edwin left when he was 4. Now, Bryan is 15 years old and is being physically and verbally abused by his mother. Bryan had begun to self harm when he was 13 and grew deeper and further into his seemingly undying depression. Then one day he meets Rory, a mysterious and intriguing young man with much secrets hidden behind a plastered on fake smile. Just as Bryan begins to have suicidal thoughts, his world is changed by the realization that he is not alone for the first time in his life. But will it be enough to pull him back from the waste land in his mind and the darkness in his damaged and nearly broken heart? And will his silent cries finally be heard? (BOOK COMPLETED)