blue & white. original.

blue & white.

twenty is a heavy age to be.

Soraya Dove Rowan is stuck. Stuck in a major that feels like a costume, stuck in a body that people call "tomboy" while she's just trying to feel like herself, and stuck in the shadow of a life she didn't ask for. She's the girl from Zone 6 with short curls and a quiet mind, more comfortable in a gym or a vintage tee than the gilded halls of the elite.

Then there is Alessio. Six-foot-five of Sicilian-Saudi Arabian legacy and rugged intensity. He's the Saint with a drinking habit and a penchant for the violence of the cage. He's the boy who's been infatuated since they were kids in Atlanta, now a man who looks naturally older and carries the weight of a world Soraya isn't sure she wants to inhabit.

From the humid parks of Georgia to the sun-drenched coast of Sicily, their story isn't a fairy tale. It's a slow-burn collision of two people trying not to drown-one in his family's expectations, and the other in her own silence.
it's a coming-of-age. it's a breaking-of-hearts.

it's just life, in blue and white.