xanna12
"They say the quietest hearts hold the loudest pain."
For seventeen-year-old Soledad, life has always been lived in the shadows. Standing by the edge of the roaring water, she was used to the cold comfort of being invisible, a permanent outsider looking in. She never expected anyone to pierce through her silence.
Then came James.
Along with his two closest friends, James forces his way into Soledad's guarded world. He is reckless warmth and unfiltered laughter, and for the first time in her life, he shows her what it truly means to belong. With him, the loneliness fades, replaced by stargazing nights and the terrifying, beautiful feeling of falling in love. James becomes her anchor, her safe harbor.
But the cruelest thing about hope is how easily it shatters.
When James's gaze shifts from the shadows to the bright, blinding light of the school's most popular girl, Soledad is forced to watch the boy who taught her how to live give his heart to someone else. Caught between her gratitude for the friendship he gave her and the agonizing ache of a love unreturned, Soledad must face the hardest truth of all: sometimes, the people who save us are the ones who break us completely.