Doused Kindling($20.00Value)

Description

For Hallie Beckett, losing her brother Shawn to cancer stopped time. It created a limbo where she still breathes, void of him and consumed by his ghost all at once. Never changing and never moving forward. It’s why she didn’t continue school after barely scraping by to graduate college. It’s also why she hasn’t been back to South Carolina – to that house. It’s every reason for every stagnant decision she’s made for herself between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four, the ages he never got to see of her. He’s her excuse. Or at least that’s what she tells herself. It wasn’t just Shawn she lost that day five years ago. She lost him, too. Weston Stratford. The boy who’d loved her brother almost as much as she’d thought he loved her – that was, until Wes vanished the day Shawn died from her and everyone else’s life without a single word or explanation. He hadn’t even shown up for the funeral. Hadn’t even bothered to take back the words “I love you” before running away and cutting ties. So what happened? The truth still haunts Wes. So do the lies he’s fed himself to get by all these years. But you can only hide from the past for so long. It’s five years later, and Shawn’s dying wish for his closest friends to reunite in his memory forces Wes back in time…and into the crosshairs of the pair of green eyes he left behind. Except…those eyes. They aren’t as bright as the last time he saw them. They’re dimmed. Flames doused, but not completely snuffed out. Not yet. Not if he has anything to say about it. He still loves her, and he makes it his mission to stoke the embers of the girl on fire he once knew before she burns out entirely and succumbs to the cold. Five years of silence. An adjoining bathroom. And questions that will change absolutely everything.