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Evan Mercer has been underestimated his whole life.
Three-time senior. Garage mechanic. Lead guitarist of a band no one believes in.
A misfit raised on riffs, rust, and the kind of dreams that don't survive in a town like Greyshore.
Liora Hale is everything he's not-brilliant, disciplined, already halfway to a future in criminal psychology. But she's also everything he is-lonely, restless, and tired of living a life built for her instead of by her.
When their worlds collide, something quiet and electric begins to grow between them.
Late-night rehearsals. Pier-side conversations. Shared fears. Shared fire.
A connection neither of them expected-and both of them needed.
But Greyshore is a town that clings.
To its past.
To its judgments.
To the people it refuses to let rise.
Evan wants to graduate, escape, and finally believe he's worth something.
Liora wants to choose her own path, even if it means breaking the rules she was raised on.
Together, they might just rewrite the ending life tried to give them.
No monsters. No witch hunts. No tragic endings.
Just a boy who deserved better-and the life he finally gets to live.
For the readers who always believed the metalhead misfit deserved a future.