Fierce Love

In a world of muted expectations, seventeen-year-old Nightshade has always been a flicker, too vibrant for the shadows. She embraces that fire with an unapologetic truth: she is bisexual, a fact etched in stone, done with the tired "confusion" narrative. Her family's love, conditional and thin, cannot dim her spirit; she stands prepared to sever those ties to protect her authentic self, her happiness the ultimate act of defiance. Nightshade's true blaze? A fierce, natural but not obsessive, love for Alessa, her best friend and sanctuary. As the whispers and judgments of their school fade to white noise, they choose to shine brightly together, a constellation in a dim sky. Their authenticity is their greatest strength, their bond a victory over small-minded fears. In this defiant love story, they are both beautifully dangerous-- one shadow, one light-proving that sometimes, opposites attract, not just in theory, but in the creation of an entirely new, luminous world of their own design. Both of them are tired of hiding.. so they're ready to rebel against society's expectations.