Hazel Rose-Lynn has spent her whole life holding things together.
With her best friend Allie by her side, she leaves home for university, determined to become someone her younger self would be proud of-someone her mother would have loved to see. She chooses English Literature to stay close to the stories that raised her, and art to express the emotions she's never been able to say out loud.
But university isn't the fresh start she expected.
Between the pressure to succeed, the weight of her past, and the quiet unraveling of the life she thought she understood, Hazel finds herself lost in ways she never imagined.
Then she meets Brian.
An ice hockey player with a sharp tongue, steady confidence, and a life that seems perfectly put together-until it isn't. Beneath his easy charm is someone just as broken, just as guarded.
What starts as reluctant friendship slowly becomes something deeper. Something dangerous. Something real.
But love doesn't erase trauma. And growing up means making choices that don't always come with happy endings.
In a story about friendship, grief, healing, and the messy reality of becoming who you're meant to be, Hazel must decide:
Is love enough to save you... or do you have to save yourself first?
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