Tara Evans lost her best friend, Axel, exactly a month ago. No, he did not die in a gruesome murder and leave her to solve it like the next Sherlock, but he did die. Or at least the side of him only she knew, did.
Winning a seemingly losing battle against an accident and waking up from a coma, Axel Matthews has had a brush nearer to death than most. Motivated by a sudden ephiphany to improve his life and start anew, in fear of almost losing it again, he leaves everything from his past behind him.
Including Tara Evans.
Years of pent up rage and regret from both their worlds
inter-collide momentously, as unanswered questions are revealed and old secrets are spilled,
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There are ways of dying that do not end with a funeral. Types of deaths you can't see, feel or smell. Because death, just like love, has a mind of its own and some things can't be prevented.
What started as an innocent high school quest in search of truth and revenge quickly turned into something entirely else.
Something that Aspen Cornwell never anticipated. Something that shatters her entire reality, leaving her without an idea what to do next. She has lost almost everything that mattered to her so losing herself doesn't really make that much of a difference to her.
When Collin Adamms returns back with a new dose of truth about what really happened to Courtney Chapel, alongside with his new-found memory that he lost due to his temporary retrograde amnesia, he finds Aspen in a state he would have never imagined.
She seems like an entirely different person and reminds him so much of himself. They are both stuck in a vicious cycle of lies, schemes and addictions and Collin's determined to finally make things right.
He tries desperately to save Aspen from her own self-destruction because the price they all have been paying seems like too much and he's not willing to pay anymore. Definitely not for something someone else should be paying for.
But saving someone else while also trying to save yourself from demons constantly shadowing your every move might be more difficult than he thought.
And maybe they aren't done paying for all the lies just yet.