Fourteen, quiet, and invisible that's how he survives. At school, he's the kid everyone laughs at, shoves down, and calls "gross." At home, he's just in the way, a shadow in a house that doesn't want him. He's learned to keep his head down, to disappear before the hurt gets too close.
Then Mika moves in next door.
She's everything he isn't: loud in her own quiet way, magnetic without trying, and completely unafraid to look him in the eye. She doesn't see a ghost or a loser. She sees him.
One invitation, one night on her porch, and suddenly Isaac's carefully empty world isn't so empty anymore.
He doesn't know it yet, but this is the beginning of the one connection that might save him... or break him worse than ever.
'𝙄𝙨𝙝𝙦 𝙟𝙪𝙣𝙤𝙤𝙣 𝙟𝙖𝙗 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙨𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙙𝙝 𝙟𝙖𝙮𝙚,
𝙃𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚 𝙖𝙖𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙦 𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙞 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙙𝙝 𝙟𝙖𝙮𝙚'
After crossing the first phase of love, they now stand at the edge of a new journey-one that will test their hearts and devotion in ways they never imagined.
"Like the moon awaits the sun after a long night, her heart held onto his light through every shadow and silence."