Three days later, Emilia discovered the true scope of her brother's cruelty while visiting her best friend Sophia Chen at the hospital psychiatric ward where she was recovering from a suicide attempt that had nearly succeeded.

Sophia looked fragile and hollow-eyed in the clinical hospital bed, surrounded by the kind of cheerful decorations that couldn't disguise the fundamental tragedy of an eighteen-year-old who had been driven to believe that death was preferable to continuing her current ...