Petrichor

In the damp, overlooked corners of a small Pacific Northwest high school, two guarded teenagers find themselves sharing the same decaying greenhouse when the rain hits.

Vesper Sterling, sharp-tongued and deliberately distant since her brother's death, photographs only what's broken. Evan Ledger, quietly furious beneath his steady exterior after his parents' divorce, runs until he can't think and sketches to keep the anger at bay.

Forced together by a photography club neither wanted, they trade wary silences, prickly exchanges, and reluctant truths in a place that smells of rot and wet earth. What begins as shelter from the weather slowly becomes something neither of them knows how to name-or trust.