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EDITINGAutumn Jenkins has loved Riley Briarwyn for almost her entire life.He is her best friend. Her favorite person. The boy who has stood beside her through every holiday, every heartbreak, every panic attack, and every ordinary moment that somehow became unforgettable. Since they were five years old and accidentally cast as Romeo and Juliet in a classroom play, everyone has called them Romeo and Juliet-even after the costumes came off.The only problem?Romeo never fell in love with Juliet.After finally finding the courage to tell Riley how she feels, Autumn hears the one answer she prayed she never would.He doesn't love her back.But before either of them has the chance to figure out how to move forward, Riley is involved in a devastating accident that leaves him with severe amnesia.When he wakes up, he doesn't remember Autumn.He doesn't remember their childhood, their traditions, their inside jokes, or the life they spent growing up side by side. The boy who once knew her better than anyone in the world now looks at her like she's a complete stranger.Determined not to lose him twice, Autumn stays by his side, telling him the stories he can no longer remember and helping him piece together a life that no longer feels like his own.But as Riley begins creating new memories, something impossible happens.He starts falling in love with the girl he forgot.Now Autumn is faced with an impossible choice. Can she accept the love she's dreamed about for years when it came at the cost of everything Riley lost? And can Riley build a future with the girl who holds every memory he no longer has?…

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Elaine Brown has spent most of her twenty-three years in hospital rooms - a girl with a failing heart and too much light in her soul to sit still. The nurses call her sunshine, the doctors call her stubborn, and her best friend calls her trouble. To Elaine, the hospital isn't just where she lives - it's her universe. A place she fills with laughter, pranks, and stories so she doesn't have to think about the ticking in her chest.When a quiet, brooding new patient named Calian is assigned to share her room, Elaine sees it as an opportunity for friendship. He sees it as a nightmare. But the more she talks (and talks... and talks), the more she chips away at the walls he's built around himself.Calian is an artist whose lungs are failing him - a boy who's running out of air but still finds a way to make beauty out of what's left.Together, they navigate the strange rhythm of life inside four white walls: laughter through pain, hope through fear, and love in the unlikeliest of places.But hospitals are full of goodbyes, and Elaine knows that some stories are written in breaths, not chapters. Still, she believes in one thing with her whole, fragile heart - that even when life hurts, there's always art in the act of staying alive.A story about life inside hospital rooms - about friendship, loss, art, and the fragile beauty of still being here.…

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A love letter that aches.A goodbye note that holds all the memories And two souls hanging on by a thread.Astra is no stranger to grief. She lost her little sister, Harley, and the silence left behind has followed her ever since. But when she meets Orson-a quiet boy with haunted eyes and too many secrets-something in her begins to stir again. Something like hope.Orson is planning to die. He's counted the days, written the note, and picked the place. But then comes Astra-light-filled, stubborn, and terrifyingly kind-and suddenly, letting go doesn't feel so simple.As the days draw closer to Orson's planned goodbye, Astra finds herself falling for the boy made of silence and sorrow. And Orson, against every part of him that has given up, starts to wonder: what if he stayed?…