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⚠️This book includes self harm, abuse, strong language, and sexual scenes ⚠️Joey Smith's mother died in a car accident when he was 6. At the start, it had bought him and his father closer together. The car accident was 13 years ago, and the abuse started 8 years ago.After 4 years of his wife's death, Adam Smith started blaming it on his son. It started with him neglecting his only child at the time, when Joey was 12. At the age of 13, he started verbally abusing him. And when Joey had turned 14, after the drugs, Adam had started physically abusing him.Now, at the age of 19 and in his last year of high school, Joey faces his biggest obstacle. To open up to someone, possibly fall in love and be happy, and in the process let them get dragged into his life of hell; or push them away, and suffer more than he already has to, because with the lack of money, Joey won't be able to escape his father as he gets worse and worse.Abigail Jones was new to Raven Lake, the small city off the beaches. She was bright and bubbly and beautiful, drawing everyone's attention toward her. But her eyes were only set on one thing.After walking into a cafe for a hot chocolate in the morning with her father, while trying to get used to the new town before school started, she had exchanged conversations with a shy boy. He had intrigued her, not because of his looks or the way he could look amazing in his old work uniform, but how he was shy.After her first week in Raven Lake, she had only seen the cocky boys, always trying to get into girls pants. The kids who were overly stressed about homework, hanging around parks trying to see who was right on a question. But she was yet to come across a boy who was just as quite shy as the boy in the cafe, who's eyes held nothing but emptiness.After that shorty exchange in words, she had made it her mission to help this boy before it was too late, or was it too late already?…