Yield: Better to Be Unseen Than Hollow

She thought she was just falling in love. Years later, she realizes she was becoming herself.

Lauren never expected her last years of high school to shape everything that came after. At eighteen she's cautious, quiet, and content to follow the rules-but first love has a way of unmaking certainties. What begins as innocent glances and late-night conversations soon draws her into choices she never imagined: love that feels like freedom, heartbreak that leaves a mark, and questions that refuse to stay quiet.

Told through Lauren's journals and her reflections years later, Yield is a coming-of-age story about first love, first mistakes, and the fragile line between who we are told to be and who we choose to become. Honest, tender, and deeply human, this is a story about the girl you once were-and the woman she grows into.