For most of her life, Jerica has had a special friend-one no one else could see. A ghost who stepped out of the shadows during the worst moments of her childhood and never left her side.
Caden became her constant. Her anchor. Her quiet protector in a world that demanded too much and gave too little. When loneliness pressed in, he held her together. When grief hollowed her out, he filled the silence. Even if it drained him to near nothing, he always came when she whispered his name.
And with every stolen moment, every brush of his fading touch, he claimed a little more of her heart.
But love-especially the kind that trespasses the boundary between life and death-has a way of turning dark.
When a jealous, poltergeist‑fueled outburst leaves her apartment in ruins and her landlord threatening eviction, Jerica is forced to make an impossible choice. She lets him go... even though it feels like tearing out a piece of her soul.
Desperate to rebuild her life, she takes a job in another state and tries to outrun the past. Then she meets a man who looks unsettlingly like Caden-same eyes, same quiet gravity, the same magnetic pull she's never been able to resist. As their connection deepens, long‑buried secrets begin to rise, unraveling everything she thought she understood about love, loss, and the thin, trembling veil between worlds.
And just when she begins to move forward, Caden returns. Only to vanish again-taking both himself and the man she's begun to love.
Now Jerica must confront the one truth she's never dared to face:
How do you survive losing a love that is stronger than barriers?