Sixteen year old Mel Harrison's world ends the night her mother doesn't come home. What follows is grief in its rawest form - a father who has forgotten how to speak, brothers who don't know how to help, and a girl who has always been her mother's daughter suddenly having to figure out who she is without her. But Mel has somewhere to go. High on the mountain above her town there is a world that exists only for her. A place of impossible beauty where her grief cannot follow and a boy named Mathew is waiting who seems to know her better than she knows herself. The mountain feels more real than real life. More safe. More home. The question is whether home is something you find or something you have to fight your way back to. SHADED is a story about grief, love, and the extraordinary lengths the human heart will go to in order to survive the unbearable. Available in full on Amazon - link in bio.