Where Oceans Burn (Where Oceans Burn, #1)

by Casey L. Bond

Our lives are so unforgivably pliant … made of vapor and vice, of desperate wants and empty wishes.

“If you skip to the ending, you miss all the best parts, the parts that make all the heartache and strife, all the pain and sorrow worth it. You have to traverse the darkest valleys to reach the highest peaks, Elira.”