book cover of What Blooms In Violet
 

What Blooms In Violet

(2027)
A novel by

 
 
Danielle

I came to Kelmore to disappear.

New country, new name on a class roster, a completely new side of myself who could laugh easily and never let anyone see the parts that are still falling apart. It was honestly working, mostly. Until him.

He notices things nobody else does like how I flinch at sirens, how I go quiet on the wrong day. He also sees how I've stopped pretending I don't feel it every time he says my name.

Everyone else lets me disappear and yet, he’s the only one who's ever noticed I was gone.

Nicco

I've spent eleven years teaching people how to recognize their own patterns before those patterns destroy them.

I should have recognized mine sooner.

She sits in the fourth row, three seats from the left, eleven minutes early, every single time. Her habits had caught my attention since day one.

Restraint was never actually a virtue. It was just the absence of anything worth breaking it for.

I’m not a careful man where she's concerned. I never really was, I’d just hadn't shown it… yet.





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