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Kai, Orla and Zak grew up together, their days spent on the patch of wilderness in between their homes, a small green space in a sprawling grey city. Music, laughter and friendship bind them together and they have big plans for their future - until Kai’s family suffers a huge loss. Trying to cope with his own grief, as well as watching it tear his family apart, Kai is drawn into a new and more dangerous crowd, until his dreams for the future are a distant memory.

When sixteen-year-old Lily Patterson arrives at Camp Shadow Creek for what’s supposed to be a summer adventure, she expects campfires, kayaking, and new friends—not to meet the boy who will turn her world upside down. Between early morning hikes, secret glances, and late-night talks by the lake, Lily discovers the thrill of first love—and the bittersweet ache that comes when summer can’t last forever.

Stella was born to sing. Someday Broadway. But everything changes when a tragic accident renders her deaf; she cannot hear, much less sing. Trapped in a strange new world of total silence, she must face not only the loss of her friends, her hopes, and her voice but also the loss of her identity and her life's purpose. Who is she if she's not a singer? Hayden is a quiet loner, an outcast, and the only person Stella can communicate with; his profound stutter makes him speak so slowly, she is able to easily read his lips.