On the first day of freshman year, Brianna Kelly is living the perfect life of a Christian dancer. Attending the best performing arts high in Nashville, with her best friend, her supportive family, and her amazing church by her side, and it seems things can't get much better. But then, that best friend, the one who's been with her through thick and thin since she was four years old, rapes her, then says it was both of them, and destroys her life as she knows it. With everything inside of her shattered and almost everyone she knows believing a lie about how it happens, Bri finally can't take it anymore and swallows a bottle of pills, leaving the house to avoid getting caught. But when a run-in with her favorite artist turns into her life being saved, she's left with her family and friends scorning her even more than before, and it seems to her there's nothing left but to try again. But Toby isn't giving up so easily, and soon, she's like another daughter to him. But is his love for her enough to pull her from the darkness and help her be put together again before it's too late?
After an incident three months ago and her parent's divorce, Reina Caverly finds a way to cope: cutting herself. Her mother's a workaholic, her sister is an out of control teenage girl, and her dad disappeared from the face of the planet. She can't even tell her two best friends, Joshua and Megan, about her problems.
Then she meets young and mysterious Calvin Young about to commit suicide by jumping from her school's rooftop which surprised Reina. He's rich; he's handsome for his age, and does well at school, so why? Why would someone who has everything want to kill himself? Everyone has a dark secret, even Calvin who seems to have the world.
Can Reina and Calvin learn to speak up about their issues?
Can they find their reasons to live?
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"One day you'll leave me. You don't want a girl with a rape story," I said as I desperately tried to stop my sobs and hiccups. "You deserve someone who is prettier and more stable then me."
"Mon ange ," he whispered to me lightly as he held my tear-stained face. I looked at him and my breath shortened as I met his intense look.
"I don't want anyone else," he said, "because I just want you."
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WARNING: Story contains rape, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.