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Everyone at Briarwood thinks they know why Y/N is falling apart. Her mother died when she was seven. Her father disappeared into work. Now eighteen, Y/N spends her nights drinking, smoking, getting high and chasing the next party. Her depression and anxiety are obvious, and even her self-harm isn’t secret. The explanation seems simple. Except Rebecca’s death isn’t the memory Y/N is trying to escape. Two years later, someone her father trusted sexually assaulted her—and Y/N never told anyone. Garrett Graham initially believes the same story everyone else does. But as arguments become friendship and friendship turns into something neither expected, he begins realizing grief doesn’t explain everything about Y/N. Garrett has secrets of his own. And the closer they become, the harder it gets for either of them to keep pretending the past isn’t still controlling them.