An Intimate Mercy Of Scars

Nova is running and screaming inside but words are never spoken. The love she had was stolen. She was only seven and a half when her father kidnapped her and raised her for the next fifteen years. Shutting out the domestic abuse she had watched her mother endure, she let go of the dream of taking her littler brother and mother far from where the pain was. Suffering from a deep depression, her mother slowly breaks down without the strength to locate her daughter on that unfathomable day.

Overcoming mental abuse and being brainwashed to forget, she holds onto the last memories she can of that unfortunate day. At twenty-two she finally has the opportunity to escape as her dad lies passed out from a fall. Lost and burdened, she wanders down the way distraught and weak and ends up at an old abandoned lot where the remains are a few run down cars and park bench, where her hand unintentionally catches the remnants of a torn letter. She meets the recently heartbroken Ellis Denning who has been living the past few days in one of the cars that she thought was rundown but wasn't. Without knowing her presence, she discovered him throwing random questions out there still apparently in shock from his recent loss, before he realizes the condition of someone more inflicted. Over this unlikely connection, Eli as he wants to be referred as, risks losing himself to save Nova from the torment of pain she has endured over the years she has been victimized.

He soon convinces her to return to where she left herself, to possibly rekindle her life while she saves his own detached and damaged state of mind. Both soon find home in each other while discoveries are made, secrets are revealed, memories are redeemed, and the redemption of two lost souls unite for a journey that we all deserve in the deepest core of who we are.