DEATHLY ROPES

Some people don't die all at once.
Some fade-quietly, slowly-while the world keeps moving.

Ylaine sees what others cannot: ropes tied around people's wrists, slowly burning away with the weight of their struggles. For years, she chose to ignore them-to live quietly, pretending she wasn't witnessing lives unravel before her eyes.

Until the day she learned the truth.

Her mother has been dead for five years.

And the life she's been holding onto... was never real.

Now forced to face both grief and reality, Ylaine begins to step into the lives of strangers standing at the edge of giving up. But saving someone isn't as simple as staying beside them-and not everyone wants to be saved.

With Tristan, a man who believes some endings should be left alone, Ylaine must confront a painful truth:

Is hope something you give...
or something people must choose for themselves?