When the Stars Burn Out (Wattys 2026)

Aria's family took Locklyn in. Falling in love with him was never part of the arrangement.
He slept across the hall, smoked alone in the snow, barely ate, and woke from nightmares like part of him was still trapped somewhere awful.
Locklyn made one thing clear from the beginning: leave him alone. Aria should have listened. Because the more pieces of him she discovered, the harder it became to remember that he wasn't hers to save. And somewhere between late night conversations, stolen touches, and the moments when he finally let his walls come down, wanting to help him became wanting him.
Locklyn was beautiful in the worst way. The kind of boy who looked like he'd already burned through all his light.
And Aria was beginning to wonder what would happen if she loved a boy who was already convinced there was nothing left of him to love.

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