The Summer I Turn 16

Moriah 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.

But then he arrives. Caleb is everything Moriah doesn't want-kind, persistent, full of a quiet hope she stopped believing in long ago. Where she sees an ending, he speaks of second chances. Where she feels abandoned, he whispers of a love that never leaves.

He isn't afraid of her walls, isn't deterred by the sharp edges of her heart. And no matter how hard she tries to push him away, he keeps showing up. As Moriah struggles between the comfort of solitude and the terrifying promise of connection, Ezra gently leads her toward something she thought she lost forever-faith.

But 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 believe again, The Summer I Trun 16 explores the beauty of fleeting moments and the faith that endures even in the darkest of nights.