One Less Tear to Cry

A close group of friends bound by loyalty and reckless choices.
Love, addiction, secrets, and loss tear them apart. One tragedy will change everything.

One Less Tear to Cry is a raw, emotional story about friendship, mistakes, and survival.
They were wild, loyal, and convinced they'd stay young forever.
A tight-knit group of friends growing up in a small town, bound by late nights, inside jokes, and the unshakable belief that nothing could truly break them. But time has a way of revealing every crack.
Sera and Landry were the heart of the group, each other's first love, until Landry left everything, including her, behind. While he fights homesickness and regret overseas, Sera falls into a toxic relationship with one of their closest friends. Her spiral into addiction is just the beginning.
Around them, the rest of the group starts to unravel. One friend is drowning in his own dependence. Another is hiding a part of himself he's too scared to reveal. And when tragedy hits, none of them are ready.
Told in raw, intimate POVs, One Less Tear to Cry is a gut-wrenching exploration of friendship, grief, self-destruction, and the unforgiving road to adulthood. It's about the choices you can't take back, the people you can't forget, and the ones you lose too soon.
They loved each other.
They broke each other.
And some of them won't survive it.