Daisy Delaney

My death will be as unremarkable as my life.

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How do I know?

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Because that’s how I intend it to be with a final act of control in a world that has taken everything from me.

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I’ve been trapped in the suffocating space between life and death for a year. Mourning who I was and hating the shattered thing I’ve become. The pain is predictable. The bruises fade, but the memories don’t. He says he never means to hurt me, but somehow, it’s always my fault when he loses control.

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My soul died last summer, and the decaying stench trapped inside me is spreading, but I refuse to let it get on the people I care about. Soon, there will be no more pain.

There will be no more anything.

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A flicker of hope I thought was lost arrives in the form of Beau Brooks. He’s a handsome disaster with demons of his own, a stranger who vows to destroy me. But he’s too late.

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I was devastated long before I met him.

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We are two people who want to die but grasp at anything to feel alive for reasons neither of us speak about.

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In a town where the shadows hide more than just the truth, we dance on the edge of danger and desire, each step bringing us closer to a reckoning that will change our lives forever.

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Some choices can’t be undone. Some sins refuse to be forgiven.

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And some hearts are too broken to be saved.