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The crash took her mother and a year of her memories. Now, the truth is coming for her mind.

Seventeen-year-old Elara Ellis survived the horrific car accident that killed her mother. Waking up from a year-long coma with only fractured memories of the tragedy, she is brought home to Ellis Reach, her billionaire father’s isolated coastal fortress on South Shore. But the sprawling Massachusetts estate feels less like a sanctuary and more like a sterile prison. Oppressive silence fills the halls, her father’s security team monitors her every move, and Elara's own senses begin to betray her. Shadows don't align, objects inexplicably blur, and the world feels unnervingly out of focus. Her father insists her fractured perception is a symptom of her trauma… just the terrifying side effects of a broken mind struggling to heal.

Then she meets Julian.                                                                         

With his frayed denim jacket and knowing amber eyes, Julian is the only thing in Elara's tightly curated life that feels vibrant and undeniably real. He knows the secret trails of the coastal bluffs, he listens when no one else will, and he anchors her to the earth when her anxiety threatens to pull her under. There’s just one problem: according to hidden county archives, a boy named Julian Thorne died in a fiery explosion moments after the exact same crash that claimed her mother's life.

As Elara desperately searches for the truth behind the boy on the cliffs, she realizes that her past is unraveling. Elara must decide: Is Julian a symptom of her breaking mind or a bridge to a truth her father has spent millions to bury?