365 Days to Take My Life: The Survival
By Dawid Bester
The Pitch
The cage is open. The trial is over. But how do you learn to live when the only thing you know is how to survive?
Easton's father has been locked away, his grueling eighteen-hour shifts in the workshop are finally over, and the legal battle has been won. Everyone tells him he should be happy. Everyone expects him to move on. But for Easton, the silence left behind in the wake of his trauma is louder than any machine he ever hauled. The heavy weight of his past-the loss of his girlfriend at thirteen and the haunting memory of his best friend's suicide-still claws at the edges of his mind.
But Easton is no longer completely alone in the dark. Channeling his heavy, unyielding anger into the strings of an old acoustic guitar, he steps onto a small coffee shop stage alongside Julian, his late best friend's older brother. Together, they turn their shared grief into a devastating wall of noise, transforming their survival ledger into raw, industrial acoustic blues that captures the attention of the entire town.
When a viral video of their intense school assembly performance brings Maya back into his life, Easton is forced to step onto the rusted bridge of his past. In a highly charged, deeply emotional reunion, he must finally confront the reality of the cold, desperate contract he once made with himself.
Written with breathless intensity and heartbreaking honesty, 365 Days to Take My Life: The Survival is a gripping exploration of survivor's guilt, the agonizing process of emotional healing, and the beautiful, terrifying moment a broken boy smashes his own countdown to realize he is finally ready to live.
Why Readers Will Keep Turning Pages:
The Weight of Recovery: A fiercely authentic look at the phase of trauma nobody talks about-what happens after you escape the abuse and have to rebuild a shattered psyche from scratch.
A Haunting Musical Brotherhood: Follow the intense, unspoken bond between Easton
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