The Summer I Turn 16

Noriel Roux has always believed in keeping her heart guarded. Life has taught her that love is fragile, that attachments only lead to loss. She's seen it in the way her mother's eyes carry the weight of too many goodbyes, in the way grief lingers like an unwanted shadow.

So when her world begins to slip through her fingers, she makes a choice-push everyone away before they have the chance to miss her. She ghosts her best friend. Avoids her mother's worried glances. Pretends the hollow ache in her chest isn't growing. If she disappears now, maybe it won't hurt as much when she's truly gone.

Is there someone who can knock down her walls? Can she truly open her heart when she knows time isn't on her side? Or will she let the fear of goodbye keep her from the one thing she needs most?

In a story of love, loss, and the courage to hope again, The Summer I Trun 16 explores the beauty of fleeting moments and the faith that endures even in the darkest of nights.