Summer is intoxicatingly beautiful and she knows it. Everyone wants to be her. Everyone wants to know her. What no one understands is Summer is not as perfect as she seems. Not by a long shot. And trying to hold it all together is like silently suffocating inside her own head. Until she somehow stumbles into Ace, who is as beautiful as he is cruel. He takes what he wants and doesn't care how he gets it. Pushing people away is what he knows and no one dares to get close enough or else they might get ripped to shreds. Summer doesn't trust Ace. She doesn't want or need him. He's frustrating, stubborn and doesn't care about anyone but himself. But a part of her can't help but feel drawn even as destructive and explosive as he seems to be.

When Summer ends, then comes Fall... Summer is when love and hope begins to blossom for the first time. Fall is where everything begins to fall apart. In an instant everything you thought you knew, can burn in a wildfire and blaze through everything that had come alive in summer. And what do you do when it's just you? When the mirror reflects back someone you don't want to be? How you survive through the fall?

"Every day, I held back the words my heart screamed in silence. This isn't just a story-it's a confession, written in shadows for someone who never looked back. A journey of first love, forever ache, and words that never found a voice." But still somehow surviving with help of people with true intents

The United States has gone to war with China over land and pride. With dwindling military enlistments, the United States naturally believes the only solution is to draft the children. An ensemble cast of drafted teenage boys desperately try to avoid the gravity of their situation until they no longer can. TW for death, violence, abuse, torture, and suicide