All That We Weren't

Leah is broken. Leah doesn’t paint anymore. Leah is a mirage since the accident that took her parents away.

Axel is her older brother’s best friend and, when he agrees to take her in at his house for a few months, he tries to help her find and put back together the pieces of that girl full of color that she once was. But he doesn’t know she has always been in love with him, even though they are nearly family – and he has no idea his life is about to change.

Because she is forbidden, but she gives him goose bumps.

Because she is the sea, starry nights, and Beatles LPs.