Some walls are built to keep people out. Others are built to survive.

For seventeen-year-old Nima, survival means staying quiet. At home, her father's temper can ignite without warning. When he moves their family to a new city, Nima sees it as a chance to stay invisible all over again—new school, new faces, same silence. Love isn't something she expects—not from family, not from friends, and definitely not from a boy.

Then she meets Nate.
He's everything she isn't. Open, confident, unafraid to care. And unlike everyone else, he doesn't want to change her, fix her, or push past her defenses. He just wants to know her, for who she already is.

The more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to keep her distance. But letting someone in when you've only ever known hurt is terrifying, and the closer Nima gets to Nate, the more she fears losing the fragile safety she's built around herself.

As the tension at home escalates, Nima faces a choice: keep surviving in silence, or risk everything on the possibility that love. Real love, can be safe.