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A youth of poverty, heartache, and grief left fifteen-year-old Amelia Kennedy a reserved skeptic of love. When the new, charming student, Ethan Moreno, presents himself in her class, she's determined to keep him at arm's length. Too bad he has other plans—ones that she can't resist. When their path later leads in an unexpected direction, a wrench is thrown, and their planned future becomes anything but. A harsh reality tears them apart when Ethan enlists in the Army, leaving her alone to pick up the pieces of her broken heart. Locked in a tumbling rotation of reality versus nightmare, Amelia's stuck in the revolve of an anxiety-fueled unknown. Distinguishing what's real from what's not becomes nearly impossible. When Ethan's discharged and sent home after his second deployment, drowning in the shadows of his own dark memories, how will the two fare seeing one another for the first time in eight years? And when Amelia learns the reality of his return, how will she survive?