❝ i'm watching from the rooftops as cars go by and life moves forward without you. ❞ Three years ago, 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐨𝐧 learned that the people who are supposed to love you the most can build entire lives out of lies. Now twenty-one, she's back at NYU with a suitcase full of unanswered questions, a journal she can't stop writing in, and a heart she's determined never to hand to anyone again. New York was supposed to be a fresh start. Instead, it feels like another place to disappear. 𝐑𝐲𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫, He's the boy with bruised knuckles and a smile that doesn't belong to someone who's been through what he has. The one everyone thinks they know. The one nobody actually does. Some people arrive quietly. Others crash into your life so hard they leave pieces of themselves behind. Somewhere between late-night conversations, city lights, and the kind of silence that says more than words ever could, Viola begins to understand that healing isn't always gentle. Sometimes it looks like forgiveness. Sometimes it looks like falling in love. And sometimes... it looks like losing everything all over again.

𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 explores the quiet helplessness of loving someone you can't save from themselves, even when you're just as lost. »» - ❦ - «« 𝐒𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐳𝐞 𝐊𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚 has learned to keep going long before she was ready to. She moves through life with a quiet kind of control, one that doesn't come naturally. She doesn't expect anyone to notice her. He does. He's rough where she isn't, guarded in ways that she recognizes without needing an explanation. Everything about him should've made her step away. But she never did. She stayed to see past his hard surface and understand the words he doesn't say. However, the longer she stayed, the more she noticed the patterns unraveling. It felt too familiar after all. Her father had lost the same fight he was still in. The kind of fight that consumes everything and everyone around it. She wonders if she's holding onto something that was never meant to last. 𝐑𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐳𝐨𝐯 has worn himself down by everything he's tried to outrun. After so long, numbness is the only thing that feels consistent and familiar. It's something he could slip into without thinking. He leaned on substances like a shield. After so long, he's gotten used to shutting everything out. But, she doesn't stay out. She isn't loud, but she's impossible to ignore. Her quiet steadiness unsettles him more than any high. Without meaning to, she shows him what he's spent his life denying. For a while, he allows himself to believe he could be different. But change doesn't come easy. He falls back into what he knows best.

Elysia Evangeline Threnody has spent her life protecting her siblings, hiding from a home filled with fear and paom, and carrying burdens no one should bear. Every day is a test of survival, every night a battle to stay one step ahead of the dangers around her. Kai Zephyr Devereaux has learned to lead, to perform, and to keep up appearances... but even he can't control everything. When he notices Elysia, he sees strength, fragility, and a life he can't fully understand. In a world where safety is fragile and trust is rare, both will discover that surviving isn't enough...and that some connections can change everything. "Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space." - Interstellar banners by: @fawnslvr // @viperluvv

Mae Rivers was sent to Brackenridge Academy to start over. To be quiet. To behave. To forget. But in a place where appearances matter more than truth, silence doesn't protect you. Especially not from someone like Ash Carter. He's everything she should stay away from - reckless, charming, and far too observant. He sees her when no one else does. And that might be the most dangerous thing of all. Because some stories aren't meant to be told. And some truths were never meant to stay buried.

In Ravenhill, silence is never empty - it is full of things no one knows how to say. Pearl Lowell has spent years learning how to exist in the aftermath of what shaped her too early. Once a child full of light, she has become a name spoken carefully, a story rewritten by people who were never there to understand it. Rhys Morgan has always believed in order, in control, in the certainty of things that can be measured and achieved. But some people do not fit into certainty. Some connections refuse to fade, even when everything else does. They were once part of the same world - close enough to believe it would stay that way. But growing up in Ravenhill means learning that distance can happen quietly, and that not everything lost is ever truly gone. When their paths cross again, nothing returns as it was. Only fragments remain - of memory, of misunderstanding, of everything left unsaid between them. And in a place where perception travels faster than truth, they are left with one question that neither of them is ready to answer: how do you understand someone you were never truly allowed to know? Some stories are not about what happened but about what was never said.