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Everyone describes sixteen-year-old Vixen “Vix” Rowan the same way. Sweet. Quiet. Polite. The kind of boy who remembers birthdays, carries spare tissues for strangers, thanks people for the smallest kindness, and always asks everyone else how they’re doing before anyone can ask him. What nobody realizes is that Vix has spent years becoming an expert at pretending he’s okay. After losing his beloved mother in a devastating car crash at eleven, the only safe world he had ever known disappeared overnight. His father, consumed by grief, eventually made a desperate mistake that landed him in prison, leaving Vix to start over in his aunt’s home with nothing but a bag of clothes and memories he can’t bear to lose. Now, surrounded by people who care about him more than he knows, Vix quietly carries the weight of a childhood that ended far too soon. Some days, simply getting out of bed feels impossible. Other days, he smiles so convincingly that even the people closest to him don’t realize how much he’s hurting.