One lost love

Grayhaven never forgot. Its streets held memories like salt in the air, sharp and lingering, and its cliffs whispered secrets only the wind remembered. Some places resist change, holding onto what once was as if it could press the past into the present.

For Elena Moore, returning wasn't just stepping into a town-it was stepping into herself. Every turn in the road, every weathered house, every glimmer of the ocean brought back a decade of absence, of choices made and unmade. The town waited for her, patient and relentless, and so did the people who hadn't stopped living while she disappeared.

She carried her past in two suitcases, a cracked phone screen, and a ring she no longer wore. And now, standing at the edge of everything she had left behind, Elena Moore had to decide: could she face the ghosts of Grayhaven, or would the town swallow her whole?