Amber Reyes has always felt like a puzzle piece in the wrong box. Surrounded by expectations and a stifling reality, she yearns for something more.

Then, on the night of her sweet sixteen, the whispers begin. Whispers of a hidden world, of forgotten magic and lurking shadows, carried on the pages of a mysterious book. Now, with one choice before her, the gilded cage of her life feels even more suffocating.

Will she remain trapped, or step through the veil and fight for a destiny written in starlight?

I don’t understand why you died.

Leaving me alonein this cruelworld.

What painmust have you felt, through the maskof faking that smile.

People know you as shyand an introvert, but I know you well.

They see you as a silentsoul, but I know how much you observed.

But now you became, the one they want.

Being bold, an extrovertand many more things.

Now they say, that they missmy oldside!

But I know the truth, that you are gone forever.

Sometimes I scream, I object, God!

I siton the floor, taking time to reflect.

Trying to understand, but this can’t be real,

You have left, How will I dealwith everything, everyone?

I want to be angry, you are gone, but I can’t.

Prayingto God, I need help, But really, I just missyou.

-Your Lazy Poet.