Where the Light Still Reaches

Then he took an injury meant for her, and woke up remembering everyone but her.

Now Julian looks at Wren like a stranger, and the friends who once envied them tell her, gently, that it's over. Wren believes she has no right to be greedy — that a person like her was lucky to be loved at all. But as a long, quiet summer unfolds, she begins, slowly, to learn something Julian gave her without ever knowing it: that she is allowed to take up space, to be protected, and to belong somewhere.

A tender, quietly moving story about bullying survived, grief, and the unexpected shape of found family.

(Content note: this book depicts school bullying and its emotional aftermath.)