Rain

Every smile hides a storm. Some secrets are meant to wash away-others refuse to stay buried. Twenty-three-year-old Elizabeth Anderson is the girl everyone thinks they know. She is the dependable college student, the content observer, and the sister who never complained about standing in the shadows of the popular crowd. For years, her quiet happiness was an unquestioned fact of the Anderson household.

Until the lock on her past breaks.

When her eighteen-year-old sister, Jade, stumbles upon Elizabeth's hidden diary, the perfect facade shatters. Within the tear-stained pages lies a raw, unfiltered reality Jade never saw coming. It reveals a hauntingly different Elizabeth-one who survived an invisible downpour of heartache, isolation, and silent struggles while keeping the rest of the world dry. As Jade reads on, she is forced to confront a heartbreaking truth: the sister who always smiled was drowning in plain sight