Absolution

Aspiring photographer and headstrong seventeen year old Sierra Rodriguez was happy with her life. Mason Williams was the perfect boyfriend, Astrid Tyler was the sweetest best friend, and living down the shore year-round couldn't be better. Being the odd one out in her strict family was a small price to pay for the good life...

...until a car accident took Mason's life.

A year later, Sierra is still reeling from the loss of her love, and is trying to piece her life back together after a reckless, grief-infused summer ruined everyone's trust in her. As the usual summer tourists begin reappearing, Sierra dreads trying to appear stable in front of the people she once thought of as her close friends. That is, until charismatic Olivia Stratter enters the scene with her quiet twin, Nathan. As Sierra finds solace in people who didn't watch her downfall, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Nathan. If she wants to learn how to love again, she'll have to learn to forgive herself, and Nathan will have to open wounds of his own that he had been hoping to forget about. Add in the return of notorious bad news Jackson Castor, the subject of Astrid's summer affections and the boy who encouraged Sierra's spiral off the rails, and finding love and forgiveness will seem nearly impossible.

Can two people as broken as Sierra and Nathan really open themselves for a relationship? And is it even possible to move on from the boy you thought you'd spend forever with?

(cover by @rebelz- !)