"Does this mean, we're back to us?"
Mazzy Reyes and Hollis were always more than just childhood friends - they were each other's safe place in a city that never stopped moving. Their moms called them soul twins. Everyone else just assumed they'd end up together.
But during senior year, Hollis started to drift - chasing music, chasing freedom, chasing something Mazzy couldn't name. And before she could figure out how to ask him to stay, he was already gone.
Now, years later, he's back - older, famous, and still singing songs that sound like her.
Mazzy thought she moved on. She thought the past was behind her. But some stories aren't over just because someone leaves - and some loves don't fade, even when they're put on pause.
"I pray that the last time I said goodbye was not meant forever."
***
Growing up with a single parent with not much money to spare wasn't particularly easy, but Kayla never felt like her life was anything less than amazing. Her father loves her dearly, she has two amazing best friends, and she helps out at her family owned bistro while still managing to do well in school. What more could she ask for?
Everything was perfect.
Until the night her entire life came crashing down.
The night of the accident.
Kayla is forced to move in with her aunt who she hasn't seen since the young age of two. With Kayla's life breaking at the seams, she struggles to cope with her overwhelming sorrow. On Kayla's journey towards self- forgiveness she takes a risky leap towards love.
She soon realizes that he will either save her, or be the cause of her reckoning.
*completed