Pretty When You Cry

Nora is the girl who never says no. To a drink, a dare, a hand on her thigh. She laughs when she should flinch, stays quiet when she should scream, and calls it strength.

But behind the bravado is a trail of wreckage: nights she can't quite remember and some she'll never forget. What begins in the hallways and backyards of small-town New England spirals into something darker- obsession, control, violence.

She keeps insisting she's fine, but the truth lingers in every bruise, every secret, every phone call she doesn't answer.

Pretty When You Cry is a raw and unflinching portrait of girlhood at its most reckless- the way desire can taste like danger, how survival sometimes looks like surrender, and what it costs to finally walk away.