Falling Where We Shouldn't

After the death of her mother, Aria Collins is forced to leave behind everything she knows in Chicago and start over in a quiet town in Virginia with her grieving father. Carrying loss she doesn't know how to name, Aria learns quickly that healing isn't linear-and neither is love.

Lucas Stone has learned how to survive by keeping his heart closed. Raised by a cold, abusive father who mistakes cruelty for strength, Lucas wears distance like armor. Letting anyone close has never been an option-until Aria.

Brought together by an unexpected friendship and a boy who believes in hope a little too much, Aria and Lucas find comfort in each other's silence, understanding in shared pain, and love in the places they never thought to look. But when the past refuses to stay buried, they must decide if love is worth fighting for-or if some scars run too deep to heal.

Because sometimes, the people who break us aren't the ones who get to decide who we become.