where Ivy Grows

🌿 Where Ivy Grows

Ivy James is seventeen and already exhausted. She sleeps on a couch in a smoke stained house while her little brother Sammy dreams in the only safe room they have. Her parents are ghosts of who they once were addicted, absent, unreliable. Ivy steals food, works at the library, and does everything she can to keep Sammy from slipping through the cracks.

Court ordered therapy is supposed to be just another box to check. Instead, Ivy meets Rowena, a weary counselor who sees too much, and Silas, the boy everyone warns her about angry, reckless, but carrying scars Ivy recognizes. For the first time, Ivy starts to wonder if survival might not be the same thing as living.

But when tragedy strikes and the fragile support she's built begins to unravel, Ivy is faced with the one choice she's spent her life avoiding: give in to the darkness that calls to her, or fight harder than ever to keep Sammy and herself safe.

Raw, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Where Ivy Grows is a story about survival, found family, and the small, stubborn roots of hope that take hold even in the most broken places.
Trigger warning for Addiction
Self harm and other strong topics.