The View Between Villages (Peripheral #1)

They say outgrowing your hometown is one of life's heaviest aches - but for Soraya Sabrine Alibaya, leaving was never the hard part. Born into a life she never asked for, Sabrine was raised in the quiet wreckage of neglect, never quite seen, never quite heard. She is the unfinished line in someone else's story, the fading light in a world that never expected her to shine.

But when someone begins to see her - not because her scars, but despite of them - Sabrine is left paralyzed by the very thing she's longed for: connection. The light hurts her more than the dark ever did. She's terrified of being known, especially by someone whose soul is everything hers is not: warm, open, and undeserved.

Still, something stirs. A quiet admiration, hesitant and bruised, begins to grow between two lonely hearts and the villages that shaped them. But in a world that never stopped hurting her, can Sabrine allow herself to feel something as tender as hope?

Can she even accept the better place from the view between the villages?