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When Nini was sixteen, her mother walked out for another man, and her father came apart at the seams. By nineteen, she has learned exactly what the world thinks she's worth.

Then she finds the boy: Joshua Brandt, the son of the man who took her mother. He is everything she is not—luminous, disciplined, beloved—though he was abandoned too. And that is the thing she cannot forgive. If they were both thrown away, why does she rot in the dark while he climbs into the light?

So she sets out to pull him down. What she doesn't plan for is the warmth of him, the home she feels in his quiet, or the moment he holds her and says: you and I are the same kind of person.

A devastating literary tragedy about abandonment, inherited rage, and the love that arrives too late to save anyone.

CONTENT WARNING: Contains depictions of abuse, exploitation, and self-harm. A dark, tragic story with an unhappy ending.