Love, loss and the Boy I was

Rayden Carter is nineteen, standing at the crossroads between childhood and manhood. Raised alongside Sienna, his best friend since childhood and the girl he eventually falls in love with at seventeen, Ray believes their bond is unbreakable. Together, they step into adulthood and college with dreams of building a future side by side.

But love is only the beginning of Ray's story.

When Sienna becomes pregnant, Ray is forced to abandon college and take a job overseas to support the life they are about to bring into the world. Distance tests their relationship, and betrayal shatters what he thought was forever.

Just as he begins to piece his heart back together, life delivers another blow.

Torn between love, loss, and fatherhood, Ray must decide what kind of man he will become when everything he once depended on is taken away.

A deeply emotional coming-of-age story about love, betrayal, resilience, and growing up when life gives you no choice.