Pain is a Blessing

Pain is a Blessing

Seventeen-year-old River has spent his entire life hiding-his identity, his grief over losing his father, and behind sarcasm, podcasts, and distance to keep anyone from getting too close.

A fresh start in a new town is supposed to be exactly that-a chance to disappear into the background and begin again.

Instead, he meets Caleb.

Confident, infuriating, and impossible to ignore, Caleb has an unsettling habit of seeing straight through the walls River has spent years building. As their friendship grows into something neither of them can deny, River is forced to confront a truth far greater than the one he's been so desperate to protect.

Because some secrets aren't meant to stay buried.

And sometimes the pain you've spent your whole life running from is the very thing that leads you home.

Pain is a Blessing is a young adult paranormal romance about grief, identity, found family, and discovering that the parts of ourselves we fear most may become our greatest strength.