ROCKING 12 𑣲. PATRICK FEELY

Anastasia Gray didn't care for the world or anything in it. She knew she was in this world for one purpose and one purpose only; to be her parents' daughter, and to be good at it. She didn't care much about popularity or fitting in. She kept to herself in the best ways she knew how. But beneath her quiet front, there were wounds she refused to let anyone see.

Patrick Feely understood that better than anyone. He's spent most of his life surviving rather than living. Pleasing instead of complaining. Being there for everyone around him even when he didn't get the same treatment. Keeping his head down was better than letting anyone see the real him. It was what he was used to. And he wasn't planning on changing that.

When two who've been suffering in silence for as long as they could remember meet, something begins to erupt.

For better or for worse, there are sparks between them that neither can deny. And for the first time, Patrick and Anastasia realize they don't have to carry everything alone.

But healing was never simple, and neither of them know how to let people in without having to give them a way out.

What happens when lines are crossed and worlds blur between two people who've never thought they would find someone to share the burden of the weight they carry on their shoulders?