mollanne1
In the grey, suffocating town of Bolton, seventeen-year-old Sloane is drowning. Since the sudden death of her mother, the world has lost its color, and her life-once filled with friends, laughter, and a bright future-has narrowed into a series of hollow performances. She is a girl trying to hold on to a ghost, terrified that letting go means disappearing entirely.
Then there is Vernon. An outcast living in the margins, he survives the brutality of an abusive home by pouring his darkest thoughts onto city walls with a spray can. To the world, he is a vandal and a delinquent; to himself, he is just another broken thing trying to endure the weight of his own depression.
When a chance encounter at a bus stop forces their two disparate worlds to collide, a fragile connection is sparked. What begins as a series of cryptic, spray-painted messages left across the city evolves into a lifeline. As Sloane and Vernon begin to navigate the wreckage of their lives together, they find that they are the only two people who truly recognize the pain behind the other's eyes.
But in a world built on trauma and secrets, love is a dangerous gamble. As they peel back the layers of their hidden struggles and fight against the ghosts of their pasts, Sloane and Vernon must decide if their connection is a path to healing or just another tragedy waiting to happen.
In a city that demands they stay silent, they are learning that sometimes, the most profound love stories are written in the shadows.