In Loving Memory
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The last time Ian was in California was the day the love of his life Jaķe Houser, was buried. Twelve years after Jake's death, Ian is no closer to recovery. Despite graduating with the highest recorded CGPA and being the youngest teaching assistant at Princeton University, Ian has no friends, drinks like a fish, is prone to crashing out, sleeps away his sorrows and has a pretty bad temper. Not to mention his weekend stash of weed.
When Jake's murderer dies in prison and Ian is forced to go back to California to face the life he ran away from, Ian soon learns that you cannot outrun your own ghosts. As the ever present memories of Jake surround him and Hansel, a cute news reporter doing an investigative piece on Jake's death, starts to pull at his heart strings, Ian is about to discover that grief delayed is not grief denied.
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