Impossible

BOOK ONE OF THE CARVER COUNTY CREW

After Lavina Wilde found her mother's body at nine years old, she learned two things: grief doesn't leave and neither does she.

She's spent the last nine years perfecting the art of disappearing - fading into shadows, biting back words, building walls so high no one could ever climb them. She's a girl made of sharp edges and sharper silence, the kind of girl who'll tell you she's fine with a deadpan stare while she's drowning. She doesn't cry. She doesn't break. She doesn't let anyone in.

Until Brooks Callahan.

Brooks has been in love with her since freshman year - four years of watching her walk through hallways like she was already gone, four years of trying to catch her eye, four years of being a mess every single time she looked at him.

He's loud and confident and everyone wants to be near him. Everyone except her. She's the only one who rolls her eyes at his jokes, who doesn't fall at his feet, who makes him forget how to speak, or speak too much all at once.

He's never been able to look away.

She hates attention. Hates people. Hates how he makes her feel seen.

He loves attention. Loves her. Loves the way she can't stand him.

It's impossible. They're impossible. She's ice and he's sunshine and nothing about them should work.

She's been drowning her whole life. And he's been waiting for her to reach for him.

Two souls, shattered by loss time and time again, flames that rekindle each other's.