“You slept with him, didn’t you?” Cassie’s voice shook with pain, but her eyes were lit with fire. “You lied to me. You knew I loved him and you still…God, you’re sick. You are a sick bitch. A wicked, mean bitch.” She didn’t speak, she couldn’t. Not with guilt choking her harder than the silence ever did. *** Avaia Summers was your average 17-year-old until her mother died, her world shifted and her father dragged her across the globe to start over in New York City. But Grief doesn’t disappear with distance. Between the strained relationship with her father, the noise of high school, a friendship that spirals into betrayal and a love triangle that she never signed up for, Avaia finds herself unraveling. Therapy helps, until it doesn’t and Love feels safe, until it chokes. As Avaia tries to stitch herself back together after heartbreak, loss and an unexpected new responsibility, the truth begins to rise, ugly and unforgiving. What is her mother’s death wasn’t just cancer? And what if the people she trusts the most are the ones with the deepest shadows?