A young girl's body is found laying face down in a creek; her murder serves as a catalyst to incite change in the lives of the people she touched. The death shakes the protagonists: Karen, Sun, and Julie to their core. Forcing each to reflect on the way they live their lives, and ushers the three women towards what they fear most, towards changes that are painful but necessary. The individual stories weave together to create a larger narrative about choices. Each of the women is trapped, and they are unable to see the truth about what confines them; because what confines them is the simple choice they make not to change things. Sometimes life is about the choices we make and not simply circumstances that happen to us.

Never been kissed before, Xue struggles in a city that never sleeps. A barista by day, a Chinese herbal tea brewer by night, she works her ass off every day to support her borrowed family. All she has ever wanted was to stay beside her best friend since childhood, but now he's gone. If only the tea she brews can make her forgetful for once and for all. Letting go of someone ain't easy. No one told her that hiding her true feelings could be just as hard. Drowning in ambivalence, Xue needs to make a choice that will change the rest of her life. ** 2nd cover made by myself ** ** 1st cover by @_toochocolately_ **

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION Seven letters, seven confessions, seven clues. Elliot Parker has what he needs to find out who killed his best friend... But is he hunting down the killer? Or is the killer hunting him? ***** When Colton Crest returns, unharmed, to his small town after mysteriously disappearing for two months, his best friend Elliot Parker breathes a sigh of relief. But days later, on the night before graduation, Elliot finds Colton in the lake. Dead. And on the day of his funeral, Elliot finds a letter in his jacket pocket with four words that send him spiralling: I killed Colton Crest. There are six more letters to find, six more confessions about Colton, six more clues to uncover why he was murdered. Elliot has no choice but to play this sick scavenger hunt, and with each new revelation, he begins to question whether he really knew Colton - or anyone else in that little town of dark secrets. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]