Where the Light Still Reaches

For three years, Julian Hayes was the only safe thing in Wren Calloway's world — the boy who found her at her lowest, stood between her and the people who hurt her, and loved her without apology.

Then he took an injury meant for her, and woke up remembering everyone but her.

Now Julian looks at Wren like a stranger, and the friends who once envied them tell her, gently, that it's over. Wren believes she has no right to be greedy — that a person like her was lucky to be loved at all. But as a long, quiet summer unfolds, she begins, slowly, to learn something Julian gave her without ever knowing it: that she is allowed to take up space, to be protected, and to belong somewhere.

A tender, quietly moving story about bullying survived, grief, and the unexpected shape of found family.

(Content note: this book depicts school bullying and its emotional aftermath.)