Stormy Skies and Broken Tides

Lazarus Holland is only sixteen years old when he loses his parents to a brutal death. A year later, two days before his seventeenth birthday, two parents with a son of their own adopt him into their family. That's when all his real problems arise. Will Lazarus be able to survive in the world where all that's left is broken dreams, and all that's right is unfulfilled hearts? Or will he succumb to the same fate his parents took?