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I never meant to stay here. I came to pack up her things, to close the door on a life that no longer exists. But when I step into the apartment, I feel her everywhere. Her laughter echoes in the silence. Her perfume still lingers. I swear I see her in the corners of the room, her voice calling my name. But she’s gone. She has to be. Except, sometimes... I’m not so sure. As I move through the space we once shared, the line between grief and specter starts to blur. And the more I linger, the more I realize: I haven’t left either. We’re both still here.

Chelsea thought sending her youngest off to college meant rediscovering herself, quietly. But when her 18-year-old son’s best friend, Julian, ignites a spark she hasn’t felt in years, her world is turned upside down. What begins as a single reckless night, a silent agreement to keep their desire hidden, quickly becomes something dangerously real and infinitely more complicated.