The school year is finding its rhythm — and so is something else. Something unnamed that lives in the space between Lorenzo and Anthony whenever they're in the same room. It shouldn't be there. Lorenzo knows what Anthony cost him. Anthony knows what wanting this would cost him now.
But then there's a party. City lights. Loud music and warmer air than either of them expected.
And for one night, the distance collapses.
Outside the walls of Denver Academy, two boys are learning that the roles they've been assigned — the anxious gay kid who survives, the golden boy who performs — are costumes they're exhausted from wearing. Anthony's mother is a ghost who lives in his father's silences, in the weight of everything left unsaid. Lorenzo's fear isn't gone, but it's changing shape. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, something dangerous begins.
Hope.
Book Two is the story of what happens when the walls finally crack — and the light that gets in is too bright to look away from.
