Navy Vinci has walked through nothing but hell in her 13 years of life.
Watching her mother get murdered in a home invasion, constant moving, and abusive foster parents. Tragedy after tragedy has molded Navy into a calloused, closed-off teen. She spends her days filling her lungs with smoke and roaming the backstreets of the city she lives in, dreaming of the day she turns 18 and can finally leave for college.
But after a freak accident, Navy is sent to live with six older brothers she didn't know existed. Determined to not let this life change affect her, Navy tries her best to shut them out. But her brothers are persistent, prepared to do whatever it takes to get to know the sister they had lost.
Relationships will be tested, family secrets exposed, and entire lifetimes questioned.
Navy is battling to find her identity in a world that has rejected her time and time again. She has the chance to start again, but will her shady past and secretive brothers prove that her life is only destined for tragedy?
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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