Change is the most uncomfortable, disruptive force. It was Bree Clark's biggest stranger in life, until it wasn't. Right before senior year, André Johnson had left her in the dust, and she was left questioning where her belonging was. She'd never expected change, nor did she know how to manage it when it came. And for Marcellus Reed, country boy with a permanent scowl, change was always something he acknowledged and rejected. One swift move from the country to the city was enough to shake him forever. These two, once strangers to change and each other, are fated by one afternoon in Chemistry class. From there, they decided they never wanted their hearts broken ever again. But, like fate, change waits for nobody.

Winner of the Watty's 2017 Awards ✿ Destruction is a form of creation; buildings crumbled as he walked past. Khari Spence, trapped in a city steeped in hatred, longs to embrace his true self even if it means risking everything. He finds a fragile refuge in an old apartment with peeling wallpaper and blank journal pages -- and hopefully in a girl. Milo Locke, disillusioned with the hollow lure of materialism, seeks to rid the ideologies her parents forced onto her. When their worlds collide, will they help each other heal from past wounds, or will their secrets tear them apart?

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