Sylvieia
"Some loves are written in the stars. Others are written in the shadows."
For seventeen-year-old Maya Lin, moving to the foggy, coastal town of Blackwood Cove isn't a choice-it's a survival tactic. One year after the tragic car accident that stole the life of her childhood best friend, Leo, Maya is drowning in a sea of grief, guilt, and sleepless nights. She wants nothing more than to be invisible. To be the new girl with no history.
Then, she meets Julian.
Quiet, artistically brilliant, and fiercely mysterious, Julian is a ghost in his own right. He has no social media, avoids the popular crowd, and spends his days staring at the ocean from the cliffs of an abandoned lighthouse. But from the moment their eyes meet in AP Lit, Maya feels an agonizingly deep, cosmic connection to him. Like a melody she forgot she knew.
Through late-night cassette tape playlists, stolen glances in crowded hallways, and hours spent talking on the edge of the cliffs, Julian does the impossible: he makes Maya want to live again.
Their love is a beautiful, aching, slow burn-the kind that warms you from the inside out.
But Blackwood Cove keeps its secrets close, and Julian is keeping the biggest one of all.
As the pieces of Julian's past begin to blur with the memory of the boy Maya lost, she is forced to confront a terrifying reality. Because in a town built on shadows, the boy who saved her life might just be the one who questions everything she knows about reality.